Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2672 of 2000).

These Regulations give effect in part to Article 3.1 of Commission Decision 2000/418/EC regulating the use of material presenting risks as regards transmissible spongiform encephalopathies . That provision requires member States to ensure that certain material from cattle, sheep and goats is removed and destroyed in accordance with Annex I to the Decision. The principal amendment to S.I. 1997/2965 is ting the definition of "specified risk material" in regulation 2(1) of S.I. 1997/2965 into line with the definition of that phrase in Commission Decision 2000/418/EC (reg. (2) to (5), (6)(a), (7) and (9)). As a consequence of the above amendment to the definition of "specified risk material", an amendment is made to regulation 24(9)(b)(ii) of S.I. 1997/2965 (reg. (12) and (13)). That provision regulates the disposal of tallow derived from certain specified risk material. A consequential amendment is also made to regulation 14 (prohibition on the removal of brains and eyes) (reg. (11)). Other amendments: whole carcases of sheep and goats are specified risk material if they are removed to be rendered or incinerated whole from the place where they were slaughtered or died (reg. 2(6)(b)); and (b) whole carcases of bovine animals are specified risk material if they are removed to be rendered or incinerated whole from the place where they were slaughtered or died (reg. 2(8)).