The TSE (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1.  These Regulations amend the TSE (Wales) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1416 (W.142) as already amended).

2.  These Regulations amend S.I. 2002/1416 (W.142) by —

(a) bringing up to date the definition of “the Community Transitional Measures” in regulation 3(1) of that instrument so as to cover the amendment of 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. L147, 31.5.2001, p.1) by —

(i) Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1494/2002 (OJ No. L225, 22.8.2002, p.3),

(ii) Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1139/2003 (OJ No. L160, 28.6.2003, p.22), and

(iii) Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1492/2004 (OJ No. L274, 24.8.2004, p.3) (regulation 2(2)), and

(b) adding the ileum to the list of tissues that have to be removed from older sheep and goats that have been slaughtered in a slaughterhouse or brought to a slaughterhouse following slaughter elsewhere (regulation 2(3)).

3.  A regulatory appraisal of the effect that these Regulations will have on the costs of business has been prepared pursuant to section 65 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 and placed in the Library of the National Assembly for Wales. Copies may be obtained from the Food Standards Agency, 1st Floor, Southgate House, Cardiff CF10 1EW.