Regulation 5(g)
SCHEDULE 8SRestrictions on placing on the market and export
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Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine productsS
1.—(1) It is an offence for any person to place on the market or to export (or offer to export) to third countries any products consisting of or incorporating any material (other than milk) derived from a bovine animal born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996.
(2) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to the hides of bovine animals born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 (including hides from bovine animals referred to in the third indent of point 1(a) of Annex VII to the EU TSE Regulation) that have been used for leather production in accordance with Article 1(3) of Commission Decision 2007/411/EC.
(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, a bovine animal is deemed to have been born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 unless its cattle passport shows either that—
(a)it was born in the United Kingdom on or after 1st August 1996; or
(b)it first entered the United Kingdom on or after 1st August 1996.
Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine animalsS
2.—(1) It is an offence for any person to place on the market or to export (or offer to export) to third countries bovine animals born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996.
(2) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to the placing on the market of such animals for sale or supply to any person in the United Kingdom.
(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, a bovine animal is deemed to have been born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 unless its cattle passport shows either that—
(a)it was born in the United Kingdom on or after 1st August 1996; or
(b)it first entered the United Kingdom on or after 1st August 1996.
Export to Member States of heads and un-split carcasesS
3. Subject to point 10.2 of Annex V to the EU TSE Regulation (rules on trade and export), it is an offence for any person to export (or offer to export) to another Member State a head or un-split carcase containing specified risk material in the absence of an agreement of the kind specified in point 10.1 of that Annex.
Export to third countries of products containing specified risk materialS
4. It is an offence for any person to export (or offer to export) to third countries heads or fresh meat of bovine, ovine or caprine animals containing specified risk material, otherwise than in accordance with point 10(3) of Annex V to the EU TSE Regulation (rules on trade and export).
Further offences relating to placing on the market and exportS
5. In addition to the offences specified in paragraphs 1 to 4, the following provisions of these Regulations specify offences relating to placing on the market and export—
(a)paragraph 7 of Schedule 3;
(b)paragraphs 8(2)(b) and (7), 10(7) and 23 of Schedule 4; and
(c)paragraph 18(1) and (3) of Schedule 6.