2007/411/EC: Commission Decision of 14 June 2007 prohibiting the placing on the market of products derived from bovine animals born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996 for any purpose and exempting such animals from certain control and eradication measures laid down in Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 and repealing Decision 2005/598/EC (notified under document number C(2007) 2473)

• CELEX: Regulation (EC) No 999/2001
• Articles: 4

Article 1

1.   No products consisting of or incorporating materials, other than milk, derived from bovine animals born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996 shall be placed on the market.

2.   On the death of any bovine animal born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996, all its body parts shall be disposed of in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council  ( 5 ) .

3.   By way of derogation from the provisions laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2 and from the provisions laid down in Article 13(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, the hides of bovine animals born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996, including hides coming from bovine animals referred to in the third indent of point 1(a) of Annex VII to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, may be used for leather production. Collection, transport and processing of these hides shall be done in dedicated approved facilities and under strict official supervision according to the official protocol approved by the competent authorities. All by-products, except leather, derived from these hides and produced in the dedicated facilities shall be disposed of as Category 1 materials in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002.

Article 2

1.   When a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) is suspected or has been officially confirmed in a bovine animal born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996, the United Kingdom shall be exempted from the implementation of the requirements:

(a)

in Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 to place the remaining bovine animals from that holding other than those born in the 12 months following 1 August 1996 under official movement restriction until the results of a clinical and epidemiological examination are known;

(b)

in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 and Annex VII to that Regulation concerning confirmed cases, to identify and destroy animals other than the confirmed case.

2.   However, the following animals shall be identified, killed and destroyed in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 999/2001:

(a)

where the disease is confirmed in a female animal, all its progeny born within two years prior to, or after, clinical onset of the disease;

(b)

where the disease is confirmed in an animal born in the 12 months preceding 1 August 1996, cohort animals born after 31 July 1996.

Article 3

Decision 2005/598/EC is repealed.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.