The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2018
PART 1
General Provisions
1
Title, application and commencement
2
Interpretation
3
Appointment of competent authority
4
Animals intended for research
PART 2
TSE Controls
5
The TSE Requirements
6
Application of the Schedules
PART 3
Administration and Enforcement
7
Approvals, authorisations, licences or registrations
8
Occupier's duty
9
Suspension and amendment
10
Revocations of approvals, authorisations, licences or registrations
11
Appeals procedure
12
Valuations
13
Appointment of inspectors
14
Powers of entry
15
Powers of inspectors
16
Notices
17
Service of notices
18
Notices restricting movement
19
Other offences
20
Penalties
21
Corporate offences
22
Enforcement
23
Consequential amendments
24
Revocations
25
Transitional provisions
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
The TSE requirements
SCHEDULE 2
TSE monitoring and approval of laboratories
1
Delivery of the body of a bovine animal for the purpose of monitoring
2
Destruction without sampling
3
Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (approved sampling sites)
4
Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)
5
Approval of testing laboratories
6
Approved sampling sites
7
Retention of products and disposal
8
TSE sampling of ovine, caprine and cervid animals
9
Compensation
SCHEDULE 3
Control and eradication of TSE in bovine animals
1
Notification
2
Restriction on movements pending investigation
3
Killing of a suspect animal
4
Identification and restriction of other bovines, cohorts and offspring
5
Action following confirmation
6
Death while under restriction
7
Placing on the market of bovine progeny
8
Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal
9
When compensation is payable
10
Compensation based on average market price
11
Exceptions: compensation based on market value
SCHEDULE 4
Control and eradication of TSE in ovine and caprine animals
1
Notification
2
Restriction on movements pending investigation
3
Killing of a suspect animal
4
Movement restrictions
5
Confirmation of TSE (excluding BSE and atypical scrapie) in ovine or caprine animals
6
Inability to exclude BSE in ovine or caprine animals
7
Confirmation of atypical scrapie in ovine or caprine animals (BSE and classical scrapie excluded)
8
Killing and destruction following confirmation
9
Infected animals from another holding
10
Common grazing
11
Multiple flocks or herds on a holding
12
Subsequent occupiers
13
Death while under restriction
14
Placing on the market of progeny of ovine and caprine animals
15
Compensation for an ovine or caprine animal killed as a suspect animal or on confirmation of any TSE
16
Valuations
17
Compensation for milk and milk products compulsorily destroyed
SCHEDULE 5
Control and eradication of TSE in animals that are not bovine, ovine or caprine
1
Notification
2
Restriction of a notified animal
3
Killing of a suspect animal
4
Compensation
SCHEDULE 6
Feedingstuffs
PART 1
Restrictions on feeding proteins to animals
1
Prohibition on feeding animal protein
2
Movement prohibitions and restrictions
3
Killing of animals
4
Compensation
5
Restriction and disposal of unlawful feedingstuffs
PART 2
Production of protein and feedingstuffs
6
Premises producing compound feed intended for non-ruminant farmed animals
7
Fishmeal intended for non-ruminant farmed animals
8
Dicalcium and tricalcium phosphates intended for non-ruminant farmed animals
9
Blood products intended for non-ruminant farmed animals
10
Processed animal protein other than fishmeal and processed animal protein derived from farmed insects for feeding to aquaculture animals
11
Processed animal protein derived from farmed insects for feeding to aquaculture animals
12
Milk replacers containing fishmeal for feeding to unweaned ruminants
13
Processed animal protein, including fishmeal, derived from non-ruminants
14
Feed materials and compound feed
15
Export of processed animal protein ...
SCHEDULE 7
Specified risk material, mechanically separated meat and slaughtering techniques
1
Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority
2
Training
3
Mechanically separated meat
4
Pithing
5
Tongue harvesting
6
Head meat harvesting
7
Removal of specified risk material
8
Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse
9
Ovine and caprine animals in a slaughterhouse
10
Bovine, ovine and caprine animals in other places of slaughter
11
Young lamb and goat stamps
12
Removal of spinal cord from ovine and caprine animals
13
Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency
14
Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)
15
Carcases from a Member State
16
Staining and disposal of specified risk material
17
Security of specified risk material
18
Prohibition on the sale, supply or possession for sale or supply of specified risk material for human consumption
SCHEDULE 8
Restrictions on placing on the market and export
1
Placing on the market or export ... of bovine products
2
Placing on the market or export ... of bovine animals
2018 No. 968 (W. 195)

Animals, Wales

Animal Health

The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2018
Made
4 September 2018
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales
6 September 2018
Coming into force
1 October 2018
The Welsh Ministers have been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health.
The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations under the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972 .
The Welsh Ministers have consulted as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety.
S.I. 2008/1792.
1972 c. 68.
Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51).
OJ No L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1.