3.—(1) Commission Decision 2007/453/EC establishing the BSE status of Member States or third countries or regions thereof according to their BSE risk is amended as follows.
(2) In Article 1—
(a)the existing text becomes paragraph 1;
(b)after that paragraph, insert—
“2. However, the official United Kingdom BSE status for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales is categorised by reference to the website of the OIE, as amended from time to time.”.
(3) Omit Article 3.
(4) In the Annex—
(a)in Part A, omit—
(i)the sub-heading “Regions of Member States”;
(ii)the entries for Northern Ireland and Scotland;
(b)in Part B, omit the entry for the United Kingdom;
(c)in Part C, after “B”, insert “, other than the regions of the constituent nations, which have an official BSE risk status determined by their categorisation by the OIE”.