European Union (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 156 of 2018).

The Regulations amend the European Union (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies) Regulations 2015 to improve official oversight in the event of the occurrence of TSEs. They empower the Minister to extend or reduce movement and restriction periods imposed for the control of TSEs in ovine and caprine animals and set out a requirement for approval of the removal of bovine vertebral column from over-30-month animals in a butcher’s shop, and the presence of specified risk material (SRM). The amendment also extends powers of prosecution to the Health Service Executive, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and local authorities.