The Animal By-Products (Wales) Regulations 2003

Regulation 51

SCHEDULE 4

Amendments

Amendments to the TSE (Wales) Regulations 2002

1.  The TSE (Wales) Regulations 2002(1) are amended in accordance with this Schedule.

2.  Regulations 33(4), 34(2),52, 54, 56(1)(a), 56(2)(b), 56(4)(c) and (d), 63 to 68, 69(1), (3), (4) and (5) and Schedule 6 are revoked.

3.  At the end of the regulation 13 there shall be added —

“(7) In this Regulation mammalian meat and bone meal does not include any compost or digestion residues resulting from the treatment of animal by-products in a composting or biogas plant in accordance with the Animal By-Products Regulations 2003.”.

4.  After regulation 34 there shall be inserted —

“Mixing specified risk material with other animal material

34A.   Any animal material that comes into contact with, or is mixed with, specified risk material must be treated as specified risk material.”.

5.  For regulation 40 there is substituted the following regulation—

“40.   Once specified risk material has been removed from the carcase and treated in accordance with this Part of these Regulations, including any material treated as if it were specified risk material in accordance with regulation 33(5) or 34(4) above, or, in the case of specified solid waste, recovered from the drainage system, the person responsible for its removal or recovery must, without unreasonable delay, send it directly to —

(a) be handled in accordance with the Animal By-Products Regulations 2003; or

(b) to premises licenced under regulation 57.”

6.  For Schedule 5 (Application of Part IV of the Regulations to scheme animals) there shall be substituted the following Schedule —

(1)

S.I. 2002/1416 (W.142).