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Regulation 5

SCHEDULE 8Restrictions on export

Export to other member States and to third countries of bovine animals and products

1.—(1) It is an offence for any person to export (or offer to export) to other member States or to third countries—

(a)in accordance with Part II of Chapter A of Annex VIII to the Community TSE Regulation, bovine animals born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996; or

(b)in accordance with Article 1(1) of Commission Decision 2007/411/EC, any products consisting of or incorporating any material (other than milk) derived from a bovine animal born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996.

(2) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1)(b) does not apply to the hides of bovine animals born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996 (including hides from bovine animals referred to in the third indent of point 1(a) of Annex VII to the Community Regulation) that have been used for leather production in accordance with Article 1(3) of Commission Decision 2007/411/EC.

(3) In this paragraph the powers of an inspector may also be exercised by a person appointed as such in relation to a hide market or tannery by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.

Export to member States of heads and un-split carcases

2.  Subject to point 10(2) of Annex V to the Community TSE Regulation, it is an offence for any person to export (or offer to export) any head or un-split carcase containing specified risk material to another member State in the absence of an agreement of the kind specified in point 10(1) of that Annex.

Export to third countries of products containing specified risk material

3.  In accordance with point 10(3) of Annex V to the Community TSE Regulation, it is an offence for any person to export (or offer to export) heads or fresh meat of bovine, ovine or caprine animals containing specified risk material to third countries.