Foot-and-Mouth Disease

HC Deb 05 November 1975 vol 899 c159W

Mr. Donald Stewart

asked the Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what EEC regulations for controlling foot-and-mouth disease apply to the United Kingdom.

Mr. Strang

There are provisions in Directives 64/432 and 64/433, as amended, which govern the health standards that may be required for imports of livestock and meat. These provisions do not currently apply to the United Kingdom: they are covered by a derogation that runs to the end of 1977 and must be reviewed before then in the light of the animal health situation in the Community as a whole.

EEC legislation does not, however, require modification of our domestic policies and procedures for controlling foot-and-mouth disease, should it reappear in the United Kingdom.