1.The revised annual monitoring programmes shall apply only to bovine animals born in the [F2countries and territories] listed in the Annex and shall cover at least the following categories:
(a)all bovine animals above 72 months of age subject to normal slaughter for human consumption, or slaughtered in the context of a disease eradication campaign but showing no clinical signs of disease, as referred to in point 2.2 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;
(b)all bovine animals above 48 months of age subject to emergency slaughter or with observations at ante mortem inspection as referred to in point 2.1 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;
(c)all bovine animals above 48 months of age, as referred to in point 3.1 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to that Regulation, which have died or been killed but which were not:
killed for destruction pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96(1);
killed in the framework of an epidemic, such as foot-and-mouth disease;
slaughtered for human consumption.
2.When bovine animals belonging to the animal categories referred to in paragraph 1 and born in one of the [F3countries or territories] listed in the Annex are tested for BSE [F4, the age limits for testing in force in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man] shall apply.
[F53.By way of derogation from point (a) of paragraph 1, from [F6the appropriate authority] may decide not to test animals in the subpopulation referred to in that point.]]
Textual Amendments
F1Substituted by Commission Implementing Decision of 17 June 2011 amending Decision 2009/719/EC authorising certain Member States to revise their annual BSE monitoring programmes (notified under document C(2011) 4194) (Text with EEA relevance) (2011/358/EU).
F2Words in Art. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/170), regs. 1, 4(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Words in Art. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/170), regs. 1, 4(3)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4Words in Art. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/170), regs. 1, 4(3)(b)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 20(4)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Substituted by Commission Implementing Decision of 4 February 2013 amending Decision 2009/719/EC authorising certain Member States to revise their annual BSE monitoring programmes (notified under document C(2013) 435) (Text with EEA relevance) (2013/76/EU).
F6Words in Art. 2(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/170), regs. 1, 4(3)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)