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There are currently no known outstanding effects for The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (revoked).
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These Regulations amend the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1881, amended by S.I. 2008/2269) which enforce Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (OJ No L 147, 31.5.2001, p1) as amended.
Regulation 2 (interpretation) is amended to include a reference to Commission Decision 2008/908/EC authorising certain Member States to revise their annual BSE monitoring programme (OJ No L 327, 5.12.2008, p24) in the definition of “Community TSE Regulation” (regulation 3).
Regulation 20 (enforcement) is amended to make the Food Standards Agency the enforcement authority in slaughterhouses and cutting plants in respect of all of the restrictions on placing on the market and exporting products contained in Schedule 8, save those in paragraph 1B (regulation 5).
Schedule 2 (TSE monitoring) is amended to place a duty on those in possession of fallen bovine stock to deliver or arrange for the delivery of carcases to an approved sampling site for brain stem sampling. Those collecting and delivering the carcases of the fallen stock are required to ensure that they are delivered to an approved sampling site. Failure to comply with these provisions is an offence. The requirements do not apply in the Isle of Wight (regulation 6).
Schedule 2 is also amended to create new offences of destroying a carcase to which these provisions apply before it has been sampled and of failing to retain carcases prior to obtaining a negative test result, and to make provision for the approval of sampling sites by the Secretary of State (regulation 6).
A substituted Schedule 8 (restrictions on placing on the market and export) makes it an offence to place on the market and export live bovine animals born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 and products derived from them (other than milk or hides) to other Member States and to third countries; restricts the export of heads and un-split carcases containing specified risk material to other member States; and prohibits the export of bovine heads and meat containing such material to third countries (regulation 9).
Offences are punishable in accordance with regulation 18 of the 2008 Regulations by—
on summary conviction, a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or imprisonment for a term of three months or both, or
on conviction on indictment, a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both.
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