UK Offence Report

The Bovine Hides Regulations 1997

UK Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 813 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
1revoked
Made
13 March 1997
In force from
3 April 1997
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Agriculture, plant health, food production and rural affairs
Made under
European Communities Act 1972

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations make further provision for the enforcement of the requirements of Article 1(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96, adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom, in so far as those requirements relate to the hides of bovine animals aged more than 30 months which do not show any clinical sign of BSE. They ensure that, when such a hide is tanned as permitted under the Commission Regulation, any part of it not tanned is treated as controlled waste and destroyed in accordance with the requirements of the Commission Regulation. They provide for the registration of hide dealers and tannery controllers, and for the approval of rendering plants, to permit the Minister to carry out the controls necessary to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Commission Regulation. A Compliance Cost Assessment for these Regulations has been prepared and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Beef and Sheep Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2JA.

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