Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008 (S.S.I. No. 166 of 2008).

These Regulations amend the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Regulations 2006 by inserting a revised Schedule 6. The new Schedule 6 provides for the enforcement of the revised text of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 as amended by Commission Regulation (EC). The amendment concerns the designation of vertebral column of bovine animals aged over 30 months at slaughter as specified risk material.
The Regulations also: (a) make consequential amendments; (b) provide for the enforcement of point 10.3 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 on the prohibition on export outside the Community of heads and fresh meat of bovines, ovines and caprines containing specified risk material); and (c) revoke the Beef Bones (Scotland) Regulations 1999.