SCHEDULE 8Restrictions on placing on the market and export
Placing on the market or export to F2countries outside the European Union of bovine products1
1
It is an offence for any person to place on the market or to export (or offer to export) to F3countries outside the European Union 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 F1Chapter B 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.