27. 7. 96 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 188/25 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1484/96 of 26 July 1996 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom by application of Decision 96/385/EC THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in beef and veal (), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1357/96 () and, in particular, Article 23 thereof, Whereas by Commission Decision 96/385/EC (%) the Commission approved measures proposed by the United Kingdom in order to control and eradicate BSE in that Member State; whereas such measures involve the compulsory slaughter of selected bovine animals having been identified as being most likely to have been exposed to infected meat-and-bone meal; whereas in accordance with the abovementioned Decision financial assistance to the United Kingdom for carrying out the slaughtering of the animals concerned should be provided along the lines laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96 of 19 April 1996 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 835/96 (°); whereas, consequently it is appropriate to provide for a Com- munity contribution of 70 % of the market value of the animals slaughtered; whereas, for the purpose of establi- shing the market value the United Kingdom shall set up a system securing a fair and objective evaluation of each animal concerned; Whereas, it is necessary to ensure that the animals concerned are killed and destroyed in a manner which does not pose any threat to human health or the health of other animals; whereas, it is therefore necessary to specify the conditions for the destruction of these animals and of the controls to be carried out by the United Kingdom authorities; whereas, so as to avoid that animals to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse mix with animals not covered by this scheme and that mistakes as to identity occur, they should be kept separately in the lairage to the slaughterhouse, as well as in the slaughterhouse itself; Whereas, provision should be made for Commission experts to check compliance with the conditions as spec- fied; () OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24. () OJ No L 175, 13. 7. 1996, p. 9. () OJ No L 151, 26. 6. 1996, p. 39. () OJ No L 99, 20. 4. 1996, p. 14. () OJ No L 112, 7. 5. 1996, p. 17. Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Beef and Veal, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1. The United Kingdom shall be authorized to pay compensation in respect of bovine animals present on 1 August 1996 on a holding located in the territory of the United Kingdom and slaughtered in accordance with the selective cull set out in the United Kingdom’s eradication plan as approved by Decision 96/385/EC. 2. The animals referred to in paragraph 1 shall be killed in specially designated slaughterhouses, the heads, internal organs and carcases shall be permanently stained. The stained material shall be transported in sealed contai- ners to specially authorized incineration or rendering plants, where it shall be processed and then destroyed. No part of the abovementioned animals may enter into the human food or animal feed chains or be used for cosmetic or pharmaceutical products. A representative of the United Kingdom competent authority shall be perma- nently present in the slaughterhouse concerned in order to supervise the operations in question. Notwithstanding the first subparagraph and subject to the necessary control: — the United Kingdom competent authority may allow the on-farm slaughter of an animal. After killing, such animals shall immediately be transported to an inci- neration or rendering plant for processing and destruction, — the hides of the animals referred to in paragraph 1 do not have to be stained or destroyed provided that they have been treated in such a way that they can only be used for leather production. 3. The slaughterhouses referred to in paragraph 2 shall be organized and operated in such a way as to ensure that: