2010 No. 801
Animals, EnglandAnimal Health
The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2010 (revoked)
Regulations revoked (19.7.2018) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/731), reg. 1(1), Sch. 9 (with reg. 23)
Made 11th March 2010
Laid before Parliament 16th March 2010
Coming into force 6th April 2010

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PART 1 General Provisions

1 Title, application and commencement
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2 Interpretation
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3 Appointment of competent authority
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4 Exception for research
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PART 2 Introduction of Schedules

5 The Schedules
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PART 3 Administration and Enforcement

6 Approvals, authorisations, licences or registrations
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7 Occupier’s duty
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8 Suspension and amendment
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9 Revocations of approvals, authorisations, licences or registrations
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10 Appeals
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11 Valuations
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12 Appointment of inspectors
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13 Powers of entry
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14 Powers of inspectors
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15 Notices
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15A Service of notices
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16 Notices restricting movement
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17 Obstruction
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18 Penalties
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19 Corporate offences
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20 Enforcement
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21 Amendment of the Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations 1995
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22 Consequential amendment
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23 Revocations
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24 Review of these Regulations
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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Ambulatory References
Regulation 2(3)
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SCHEDULE 2 TSE Monitoring
Regulation 5(a)

PART 1 Monitoring for TSE

1 Notification of the body of a goat for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6 of the EU TSE Regulation
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2 Delivery of the body of a bovine animal for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6 of the EU TSE Regulation
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3 Persons collecting and delivering
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4 Destruction without sampling
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5 Retention of bodies of bovine animals pending test results
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6 Remote Areas
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7 Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal
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8 Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)
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9 Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (other places of slaughter)
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10 Approval of laboratories
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11 Approved sampling sites
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12 Slaughter of bovine animals
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13 Retention of products and disposal
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14 TSE sampling of sheep, goats and deer
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15 Compensation
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PART 2 Contents of an RMOP

16 Animal identification and separation
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17 Brain stem sampling
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18 Correlation of sample to carcase and all other parts of the body
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19 Retention of carcases
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20 Retention of parts of the body
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21 Disposal before receipt of the result
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22 Other measures following sampling
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SCHEDULE 3 Control and eradication of TSE in bovine animals
Regulation 5(b)

1 Control and eradication of TSE – notification
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2 Restriction of a notified animal
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3 Slaughter of a suspect animal
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4 Identification and restriction of offspring and cohorts
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5 Action following confirmation
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6 Death while under restriction
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7 Placing on the market of bovine progeny
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8 When compensation is payable
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9 Amount of compensation payable
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10 Exceptions
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SCHEDULE 4 Control and eradication of TSE in sheep and goats
Regulation 5(c)

1 Notification of TSE
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2 Restriction of a notified animal
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3 Slaughter of a suspect animal
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4 Movement restrictions
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5 Action where TSE is not confirmed
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6 Confirmation of TSE in sheep
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7 Confirmation of TSE in goats
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8 Use of milk and milk products following confirmation of classical scrapie
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9 Inability to exclude BSE in sheep or goats
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10 Confirmation of atypical scrapie in sheep or goats
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11 Derogation
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12 Time for appeals
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13 Killing and destruction following confirmation
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14 Infected animals from another holding
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15 Common grazing
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16 Multiple flocks on a holding
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17 Subsequent occupiers
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18 Introduction of animals onto a holding
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19 Use of ovine germinal products
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20 Movement of animals from a holding
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21 Time of movement restrictions
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22 Death while under restriction
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23 Placing on the market of progeny of BSE-affected sheep and goats
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24 Compensation for a sheep or goat slaughtered as a suspect animal
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25 Compensation for animals killed or products destroyed following confirmation of TSE
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26 Valuations
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27 Compensation for milk and milk products compulsorily destroyed in accordance with paragraph 9
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SCHEDULE 5 Control and eradication of TSE in animals that are not bovine, ovine or caprine
Regulation 5(d)

1 Notification
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2 Restriction of a notified animal
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3 Slaughter of a suspect animal
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4 Compensation
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SCHEDULE 6 Feedingstuffs
Regulation 5(e)

PART 1 Restrictions on feeding proteins to animals

1 Prohibition on feeding animal protein to ruminants
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2 Prohibition on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants
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3 Exceptions
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4 Movement prohibitions and restrictions of animals
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5 Slaughter of animals
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6 Compensation
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7 Slaughter or sale for human consumption
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PART 2 Production of protein and feedingstuffs

8 Fishmeal for feeding to non-ruminant farmed animals
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9 Fishmeal for feeding to unweaned, ruminant farmed animals
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10 Offences relating to fishmeal and feedingstuffs containing fishmeal
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11 Feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals
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12 Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals
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13 Blood products and blood meal
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14 Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing blood products or blood meal
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15 Change in use of equipment
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16 Conditions applying to the storage and transport of bulk quantities of protein products and feedingstuffs containing such proteins
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17 Conditions applying to the manufacture and transport of petfood or feedingstuffs
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18 Export of processed animal protein to third countries
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19 Fertilisers
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20 Record keeping for transport etc of reject petfood
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21 Cross-contamination of materials originating from premises where processed animal proteins (except fishmeal) are in use
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SCHEDULE 7 Specified risk material, mechanically separated meat and slaughtering techniques
Regulation 5(f)

1 Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority
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2 Training
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3 Mechanically separated meat
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4 Pithing
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5 Tongue harvesting
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6 Head meat harvesting
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7 Removal of specified risk material
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8 Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse
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9 Sheep and goats in a slaughterhouse
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10 Bovine animals, sheep and goats in other places of slaughter
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11 Young lamb and goat stamps
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12 Removal of spinal cord from sheep and goats
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13 Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency
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14 Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)
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15 Meat from another member State
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16 Staining and disposal of specified risk material
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17 Security of specified risk material
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18 Prohibition on the sale, supply or possession for sale or supply of specified risk material for human consumption
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SCHEDULE 8 Restrictions on placing on the market and export
Regulation 5(g)

1 Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine products
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2 Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine animals
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3 Export to member States of heads and un-split carcases
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4 Export to third countries of products containing specified risk material
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5 Further offences relating to placing on the market and export
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which apply in England, revoke and remake with amendments the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/1881).
These Regulations enforce 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 (OJ No L 147, 31.5.2001, p 1) as amended (“the EU TSE Regulation”). They also enforce—
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(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The main Regulations
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Schedule 1
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Schedule 2
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Schedule 3
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Schedule 4
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Schedule 5
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Schedule 6
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Schedule 7
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Schedule 8
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