Restrictions and prohibitions of Regulation 2001/1326

Regulation (EC) No 1326/2001
amended by (EC) No 270/2002
amended by (EC) No 1234/2003

Restrictions and prohibitions concerning TSE and imports shall apply from 1 March 2002.

Even imports from the TSE “free” countries:

Argentina, Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Iceland, Namibia, Territoire français de la Nouvelle Calédonie, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Singapore, Swaziland, Uruguay, Vanuatu

need an additional declaration now.

Specified risk material is not allowed to be imported from countries other than those mentioned above.

A. Products of animal origin:

The following tissues are designated as specified risk material and shall not be imported into the Community (except from the counties mentioned above) :

(a) the skull including the brain and eyes, the tonsils, the vertebral column excluding the vertebrae of the tail and the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae, but including dorsal root ganglia and spinal cord of bovine animals aged over 12 months, and the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum and the mesentery of bovine animals of all ages;

(b) the skull including the brain and eyes, the tonsils and the spinal cord of ovine and caprine animals aged over 12 months or which have a permanent incisor erupted through the gum, and the spleen of ovine and caprine animals of all ages.

The products of animal origin listed below shall be subject to the conditions laid down in (b) on import into the

Community:

— the specified risk material referred to in point 1(a),
— fresh meat: the meat defined by Directive 64/433/EEC,
— minced meat and meat preparations: the minced meat and meat preparations defined by Directive 94/65/EC,
— meat products: the meat products defined by Directive 77/99/EEC (including sheep casings),
— other products of animal origin: other products of animal origin as defined by Directive 77/99/EEC,
— rendered fats as referred to by Reg. 1774/2002,
— gelatine as referred to by Directive 92/118/EEC and Reg. 1774/2002,
— pet food as referred to by Reg. 1774/2002,
— the processed animal protein referred to by Reg. 1774/2002,
— bones and bone products as referred to by Reg. 1774/2002,
— category 3 material as referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002.

Any reference to “products of animal origin” designates products of animal origin listed in this point and does not concern other products of animal origin containing or derived from those products of animal origin.

(c) When the abovementioned products of animal origin, containing material from bovine, ovine or caprine animals are imported into the Community from third countries or regions thereof, the health certificates shall be accompanied by a declaration signed by the competent authority of the country of production, worded as follows:

“This product does not contain and is not derived from:

either (*)

specified risk material as defined in Annex XI, section A, to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 produced after 31 March 2001, or mechanically recovered meat obtained from bones of bovine, ovine or caprine animals produced after 31 March 2001. After 31 March 2001 the bovine, ovine and caprine animals, from which this product is derived, have not been slaughtered after stunning by means of gas injected into the cranial cavity or killed by the same method or slaughtered by laceration after stunning of central nervous tissue by means of an elongated rod-shaped instrument introduced into the cranial cavity.

Carcasses, half carcasses and quarter carcasses may contain vertebral column on import;

or (*)

bovine, ovine and caprine materials other than those derived from animals born, continuously reared and slaughtered in the following countries:

Argentina
Australia
Botswana
Brazil
Chile
El Salvador
Iceland
Namibia
Territoire français de la Nouvelle Calédonie
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Singapore
Swaziland
Uruguay
Vanuatu
(*) Delete one of these as appropriate.”

B. Live animals:

Imports of bovine animals are to be subject to the presentation of an international animal health certificate attesting that:

(a) the feeding of ruminants with proteins derived from mammals has been banned and the ban has been effectively enforced;

(b) the bovine animals intended for export to the Community are identified by a permanent identification system enabling them to be traced back to the dam and herd of origin and are not the progeny of BSE suspected females.

C. Embryos and ova:

Imports of bovine embryos and ova are to be subject to the presentation of an international animal health certificate attesting that the feeding of ruminants with proteins derived from mammals has been banned and the ban has been effectively enforced.

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