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". – The Commission has recently received information from the Member States on their implementation of BSE control measures, and in particular on the new measures on animal feed and the testing of animals for BSE. The information was provided in response to a questionnaire sent to Member States on 5 January 2001. This questionnaire has enabled the Commission to obtain a reasonably complete picture of the way in which the measures are being implemented, and this seems broadly satisfactory. A working document which summarises the responses of the Member States to this questionnaire was also circulated for discussion at the Agriculture Council on 29 January.
Member States are responsible for the implementation of these measures. In the case of the feed ban, implementation includes regular microscopic examination of feedstuffs and inspection of feedstuff plants. This in turn is audited by the personnel of the Food and Veterinary Office who have already visited a number of the Member States to this end since December 2000, and intend to visit the rest early in 2001. The reports on these inspection visits will be made available to Parliament and published on the Internet in the usual manner.
Legislation on the identification and registration of bovine animals specifies that each Member State must set up a national database for bovine animals and that the computerised databases should become fully operational no later than 31 December 1999. The fully operational character of the national databases for bovine animals has been verified by the Commission for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom as regards Northern Ireland. Portugal, France and Germany have requested the recognition of the fully operational character of their national databases and the Commission is in the process of studying these requests. The Commission does not have exact figures for the amount of processed animal protein that has accumulated in Member States. It is aware that the disposal of this material poses a problem for some Member States and that those States are actively seeking a solution."@en1
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