Article 1
Decision 2000/418/EC is amended as follows: 1. Annex I(1) is replaced by the following: "1. (a) The following tissues shall be designated as specified risk material in all Member States and regions thereof: (i) the skull including the brains and eyes, the tonsils, the spinal cord of bovine animals aged over 12 months, and the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum of bovine animals of all ages; (ii) the skull including the brains and eyes, the tonsils and the spinal cord of ovine and caprine animals aged over 12 months or that have a permanent incisor erupted through the gum, and the spleen of ovine and caprine animals of all ages. (b) In addition to the specified risk material listed in point 1(a) the following tissues shall be designated as specified risk material in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and in Portugal with the exception of the Autonomous Region of the Azores: (i) the entire head excluding the tongue, including the brains, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils; the thymus; the spleen and spinal cord of bovine animals aged over six months; (ii) the vertebral column, including dorsal root ganglia, of bovine animals aged over 30 months." 2. In Annex II, the following point (e) is added to the list of products subject to restrictions on import into the Community pursuant to Article 6(1): "(e) 'bovine intestines' as referred to in Article 2(b)(v) of Directive 77/99/EEC."