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7.—(1) No person shall dispatch meat products of animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or any other biungulate coming from the restricted area or prepared using meat obtained from animals originating in that area.
(2) The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply to meat products meeting the public health requirements of Council Directive 77/99/EEC and which—
(a)are made from meat specified in regulation 6(3); or
(b)which have undergone one of the treatments laid down in Article 4(1) of Council Directive 80/215/EEC (on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in meat products(1)), or have been subjected during preparation uniformly throughout the substance to a pH value of less than 6.
(3) Meat products consigned to another member State shall be accompanied by an official certificate prepared by the National Assembly, the Secretary of State or the Minister and signed by a person appointed as an officer of the kind specified in the certificate which bears the following words—
“Meat products conforming to Commission Decision 2001/740/EC of 19th October 2001 concerning certain protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom”.
(4) Paragraph (4) shall not apply to meat products which conform to the requirements of paragraph (2) if such compliance is stated in the commercial document accompanying the consignment, endorsed in accordance with regulation 14, and the products have been processed in an establishment operating HACCP and an auditable standard operating procedure which ensures that standards for treatment are met and recorded.
(5) Paragraph (4) shall not apply to meat products treated in hermetically sealed containers so as to ensure they are shelf stable if the heat treatment applied is stated in the commercial document accompanying the consignment.
OJ No. L47, 21.2. 1980, p.4.
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