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Regulation 5

SCHEDULE 4 Additional requirements for meat

1.  Where the meat is from bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine animals or farmed game it must have been transported to the approved slaughterhouse without any contact with any premises situated in the areas not specified in Schedule 3.

2.  The meat must at all times be clearly identified, handled, stored and transported separately from meat not eligible for export.

3.  The meat must be inspected, along with the animal from which it derived, post-mortem by an official veterinarian—

(a) in the slaughterhouse;

(b) in the case of on-farm slaughtering of farmed game, on the premises; or

(c) in the case of wild game, at the game-handling establishment,

with no clinical signs or evidence of foot-and-mouth disease identified.

4.  The meat must remain in the slaughterhouse, premises or game-handling establishment for at least 24 hours after the post-mortem inspection described in paragraph 3.

Regulation 5

SCHEDULE 5 Premises from which an animal may be transported for slaughter

1.  The premises must be situated in the centre of a circle of at least 10 km radius in which there was no outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease during at least the 30 days prior to transport.

2.  The premises must have had no animal of a species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease introduced into it during the 21 days prior to transport to slaughter of any animal in the premises susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease (except in the case of pigs, in which case the period of 21 days is reduced to 7 days), unless—

(a) such animal complies with the conditions in regulation 5(3)(c)(i) or 5(3)(d)(i) and was under the supervision of the Secretary of State on a single premises—

(i) complying with paragraph 1 during the 21 days prior to its transport; and

(ii) into which no animal of a species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease was introduced during the 21 days prior to the transport of the animal (except in the case of a pig, in which case the period of 21 days is reduced to 7 days);

(b) a test for antibodies against the foot-and-mouth disease virus was carried out on a blood sample taken from the animal at least 10 days prior to the date of transport to the premises and produced a negative result; or

(c) the animal comes from a premises on which a serological survey pursuant to a sampling protocol suitable to detect 5% prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease with at least 95% level of confidence was conducted and produced negative results.

Regulation 10

SCHEDULE 6 Semen and Embryos

PART 1 Centres or premises from which semen or embryos may be collected

1.  The centre or premises must have been free from foot-and mouth disease for at least three months prior to the date of collection of the semen or embryos.

2.  It must be situated in the centre of an area of 10 km radius in which there has been no case of foot-and-mouth disease for at least the 30 days prior to the date of collection.

PART 2 Storage conditions for frozen semen and embryos

1.  Frozen bovine semen must have been stored in accordance with the Bovine Semen (England) Regulations 2007(29).

2.  Frozen bovine embryos must have been stored in accordance with the Bovine Embryo (Collection, Production and Transfer) Regulations 1995(30).

3.  Frozen porcine semen must have been stored in accordance with Chapters I and II of Annex A of Council Directive 90/429/EEC laying down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of semen of domestic animals of the porcine species(31).

4.  Frozen porcine embryos must have been stored in accordance with Chapter III of Annex D of Council Directive 92/65/EEC.

5.  Frozen ovine or caprine semen must have been stored in accordance with Chapters I and III of Annex D of Council Directive 92/65/EEC.

6.  Frozen ovine or caprine embryos must have been stored in accordance with Chapter III of Annex D of Council Directive 92/65/EEC.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke the Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No.6) Regulations 2007. The Regulations implement the Commission Decision of 19 November 2007 amending Decision 2007/554/EC concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom (not yet published in the Official Journal). The Commission Decision of 19 November 2007 extends the categories of, and areas from which, products derived from animals may exported.

They regulate—

(a) the movement and export of live animals (regulations 3 and 4);

(b) the export of meat from bovine, ovine caprine and porcine animals and other biungulates, (regulation 5);

(c) the marking of meat not eligible for export (regulation 6);

(d) the export of meat products, milk and dairy products (regulations 7, 8 and 9); and

(e) the export of semen, ova or embryos of animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or other biungulates (regulation 10), hides and skins (regulation 11) and various animal products (regulation 12).

They create an offence of offering to export anything which it is prohibited to export under the Regulations (regulation 16).

They provide powers for enforcement, and powers for officers of Revenue and Customs (regulations 20 to 22) and create an offence of obstruction (regulation 23).

Breach of the Regulations is an offence, punishable with up to two years’ imprisonment.

The Regulations are enforced by the Secretary of State or the local authority (regulation 28).

An impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations.