Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) Order 2001 (S.I. 2650 of 2001).

The amendments made by this Order to the principal Order reflect the provisions of Annex XI to Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. That Annex imposed transitional measures with regard to the removal or specified risk material and was inserted into Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 by article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1326/200. In article 2 of the principal Order, a definition of vertebral column is added. Article 3 is amended to exclude from the scope of the definition material derived from sheep and goats born, continuously reared and slaughtered in certain third countries. Article 4 is substantially revised so that, in particular, material derived from bovine animals born, continuously reared and slaughtered in certain third countries is now outside the scope of the definition. Article 6 of the principal Order is amended to impose new requirements for the import of carcases of bovine animals containing vertebral column which are specified risk material. In Schedule 2, a new declaration is substituted in the form of an importation certificate required by article 6(2) of the principal Order to accompany imported products.