F3ANNEX IIIMONITORING SYSTEM
CHAPTER A
I. MONITORING IN BOVINE ANIMALS
1. General
Monitoring in bovine animals shall be carried out in accordance with the laboratory methods laid down in Annex X, Chapter C, point 3(1)(b).
F12. Monitoring in animals slaughtered for human consumption
2.1.
All bovine animals over 24 months of age shall be tested for BSE where they have undergone:
emergency slaughter in accordance with point 1 of Chapter VI of Section I of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 30 , or
an ante mortem inspection with observations concerning accidents, or serious physiological and functional problems, or signs in accordance with point 2 of Part B of Chapter II of Section I of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 31 .
2.2.
All healthy bovine animals over 30 months of age slaughtered normally for human consumption shall be tested for BSE.
3. Monitoring in animals not slaughtered for human consumption
3.1.
All bovine animals over 24 months of age which have died or been killed but which were not:
killed for destruction pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96 32 ,
killed in the framework of an epidemic, such as foot-and-mouth disease,
slaughtered for human consumption,
shall be tested for BSE.
F53.2.
Point 3.1 does not prevent the exercise by the appropriate authority of any power to disapply the requirement for testing under that point in remote areas with a low animal density, where no collection of dead animals takes place, provided that when taken with other such exclusions not more than 10% of the bovine population in the United Kingdom is excluded from that requirement.
F44. Monitoring in animals purchased for destruction pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 716/96
All animals born between 1 August 1995 and 1 August 1996 killed for destruction pursuant Regulation (EC) No 716/96 shall be tested for BSE.
5. Monitoring in other animals
In addition to the testing referred to in points 2 to 4, F9the appropriate authority may test other bovine animals, in particular where those animals originate from countries with indigenous BSE, have consumed potentially contaminated feedingstuffs or were born or derived from BSE infected dams.
F26. Measures following testing
6.1.
Where an animal slaughtered for human consumption has been selected for testing for BSE, the health marking provided for in F10Article 18(4) of Regulation (EU) No 2017/625 shall not be carried out on the carcase of that animal until a negative result to the rapid test has been obtained.
6.2.
F6The appropriate authority need not comply with point 6.1 where an official system is in place in the slaughterhouse ensuring that no parts of examined animals bearing the health mark leave the slaughterhouse until a negative result to the rapid test has been obtained.
6.3.
All parts of the body of an animal tested for BSE including the hide shall be retained under official control until a negative result to the rapid test has been obtained, unless they are disposed of in accordance with Article 12(a) or (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009, or unless its fats are processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 and used in accordance with Article 12(e) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 or used for the manufacture of derived products referred to in Article 36 of that Regulation.
6.4.
All parts of the body of an animal found positive or inconclusive to the rapid test including the hide shall be disposed of in accordance with Article 12(a) or (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009, apart from material to be retained in conjunction with the records provided for in Chapter B, Part III of this Annex, and apart from the fats obtained from such a body, provided that these fats are processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 and used in accordance with Article 12(e) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 or used for the manufacture of derived products referred to in Article 36 of that Regulation.
6.5. Where an animal slaughtered for human consumption is found positive or inconclusive to the rapid test, at least the carcase immediately preceding and the two carcases immediately following the animal tested positive or inconclusive on the same slaughter line shall be destroyed in accordance with point 6.4.
By way of derogation from the first paragraph of this point, F7The appropriate authority may decide not to destroy the carcases mentioned in the first paragraph unless the result of the rapid test is confirmed to be positive or inconclusive by confirmatory examinations referred to in Annex X, Chapter C, point 3.1(b).
6.6.
F8The appropriate authority may decide not to destroy the carcases mentioned in point 6.5 where a system is in place in the slaughterhouse preventing contamination between carcases.
Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2245/2003 of 19 December 2003 amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in ovine and caprine animals.