The Animals and Animal Health, Feed and Food, Plants and Plant Health (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001

14.—(1) 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(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In Annex 1 (specific definitions), in paragraph 2—

(a) in point (e), in the definition of “scrapie case”, for “European Union” substitute “national”;

(b) in point (f), in the definition of “classical scrapie case”, for “European Union” substitute “national”;

(c) in point (g), in the definition of “atypical scrapie case”, for “European Union” substitute “national”;

(d) in point (j), in the definition of “classical BSE case”, for “European Union” substitute “national”;

(e) in point (k), in the definition of “atypical BSE case”, for “European Union” substitute “national”.

(3) In Annex 3, in Chapter A, in Part 4 (monitoring in other animal species), for “Member States” substitute “The appropriate authority”.

(4) In Annex 4, in Chapter 2 (animal feeding: derogations from the prohibitions in Article 7(1) and Chapter 1), in point (e)—

(a) for “Member States” substitute “The appropriate authority”;

(b) for “they have” substitute “it has”.

(5) In Annex 7, in Chapter B (measures following confirmation of the presence of TSE in bovine, ovine and caprine animals)—

(a) in point 2.2.2—

(i) in the words before point (a), for “Member State” substitute “appropriate authority”;

(ii) in option 3, set out in point (d), for “A Member State” substitute “The appropriate authority”;

(b) in point 4.5, for “Member State” substitute “appropriate authority”.

(6) In Annex 8, in Chapter A, in Section A (placing on the market and export: conditions which apply to ovine and caprine animals and semen and embryos thereof)—

(a) in the heading to point 2, omit “of an appropriate authority”;

(b) in point 2.1(d), for “the whole Member State” substitute “its whole territory”.

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EUR 2001/999; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2019/170