The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Marking of Meat, Meat Preparations and Meat Products) Regulations 2002

Amendment of the Minced Meat and Meat Preparations (Hygiene) Regulations 1995

4.—(1) The Minced Meat and Meat Preparations (Hygiene) Regulations 1995(1) are amended in so far as they extend to England in accordance with this regulation.

(2) Paragraph (1B) of regulation 7 and paragraph (4B) of regulation 8 are revoked.

(3) For paragraphs (5), (6), (7) and (8) of regulation 7 there is substituted—

“(5) No person shall affix the health mark to minced meat produced from fresh meat originating from animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates slaughtered in Great Britain from 1st February 2001 to 23rd January 2002 or meat processed during that period unless it was fresh meat eligible for dispatch in accordance with Commission Decision 2001/172,/EC, 2001/356/EC or 2001/740/EC.”.

(4) For paragraphs (6), (7) and (8) of regulation 8 there is substituted—

“(6) No person shall affix the health mark to any meat preparation produced from fresh meat originating from animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates slaughtered in Great Britain from 1 February 2001 to 23rd January 2002 or meat from those species of animals processed during that period unless it was fresh meat eligible for dispatch in accordance with Commission Decision 2001/172,/EC, 2001/356/EC or 2001/740/EC.”

(1)

S.I. 1995/3205 as amended by S.I. 2000/225, S.I. 2000/656, S.I. 2001/1512, S.I. 2001/260, S.I. 2001/1739, S.I. 2001/1771 and S.I. 2001/3451.