Transposition of the Meat Hygiene Council Directive 2002/99/EC into English law
The Meat Hygiene Council Directive 2002/99/EC provides that fresh meat and meat products from animals from Protection Zones and Surveillance Zones cannot be placed on the domestic market, traded with other EU States or exported from the EU unless it has been heat treated. This is with the exception of poultry meat from birds from Newcastle Disease Protection and Surveillance Zones which needs to be heat treated only if it is destined for export (people can choose to put it in a cooked product for the domestic market), but if it is destined for the domestic market then it can be sold as fresh meat.
The Meat Hygiene Council Directive 2002/99/EC makes provisions on how meat and meat products shall be controlled during an outbreak of the following diseases:
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Classical Swine Fever (CSF), Swine Vesicular Disease (SVD), African Swine Fever, Rinderpest, Newcastle Disease, Avian Influenza (AI) and Peste des Petit Ruminants (Sheep and Goat Plague).
This consultation is being undertaken by Defra and covers England only, the Devolved Administration's are responsible for their own transposition.
Consultation
documents for this Directive are available here.
Page last modified:
January 15, 2007