(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make provision for the Department to charge a fee to meet the costs incurred by it for activities required, as regards scrapie, under point 1(a)(ii) of Part I of Chapter A of Annex VIII to the Community TSE Regulation which specifies the conditions for intra-Community trade in live animals, semen and embryos.
The Regulations provide that the Department is the competent authority for the purposes of the Community TSE Regulation.