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ANNEX IXU.K.IMPORTATION INTO THE COMMUNITY OF LIVE ANIMALS, EMBRYOS, OVA AND PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN

[F1CHAPTER D U.K. Imports of animal by-products and processed products derived therefrom from bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin

SECTION A U.K. Animal by-products

This Chapter shall apply to the following animal by-products and processed products derived therefrom from bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin as referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002:

SECTION B U.K.

Imports of the animal by-products processed products derived therefrom from bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin referred to in Section A. shall be subject to the presentation of an animal health certificate attesting that:

(a)

the animal by-product does not contain and is not derived from specified risk material as defined in Annex V or mechanically separated meat obtained from bones of bovine, ovine or caprine animals;

(b)

the animals from which this animal by-product is derived, have not been slaughtered after stunning by means of gas injected into the cranial cavity or killed by the same method or slaughtered by laceration of central nervous tissue by means of an elongated rod-shaped instrument introduced into the cranial cavity,

or

(c)

the animal by-product does not contain and is not derived from bovine, ovine and caprine materials other than those derived from animals born, continuously reared and slaughtered in a country or region classified in accordance with Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 as a country or region posing a negligible BSE risk.]