"10A Annual review of import controls
(1) The Ministers shall prepare a report during each financial year reviewing all of the activities of government departments, the Food Standards Agency, local authorities, port health authorities and other relevant public agencies directed to the prevention of the introduction of disease into or within England and Wales through the importation of animals and other things, including their making of orders under section 10 of this Act, assessing the effectiveness of the action taken, and proposing such further action as may, in the opinion of the Ministers, be required to further reduce the risk of disease being imported.
(2) The Ministers shall, as soon as possible after the end of each financial year, lay their report before Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales.".'.
Officials: biosecurity
Mr Peter Ainsworth
Mrs Ann Winterton
Mr Keith Simpson
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mrs Angela Browning
Mr Bill Wiggin
NC5
To move the following Clause:—
'In the 1981 Act, the following section is inserted after section 16—
"16B Officials: biosecurity
(1) The Ministers or any person acting on his behalf, shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that he does nothing which causes an animal to be infected with a disease specified in Schedule 2A.
(2) Any person who fails to take such reasonable precautions is guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.".'.
Pet animals
Mr Peter Ainsworth
Mrs Ann Winterton
Mr Keith Simpson
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mrs Angela Browning
Mr Bill Wiggin
NC6
To move the following Clause:—
'In the 1981 Act the following section is inserted after section 34.
"34A Pet animals
Where it can be shown that a pet animal has been in contact with an animal affected by foot and mouth, it shall not be slaughtered until the result of a blood test for the disease is known.".'.
Duty of Ministers to disposal of carcasses
Mr Peter Ainsworth
Mrs Ann Winterton
Mr Keith Simpson
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mrs Angela Browning
Mr Bill Wiggin
NC7
To move the following Clause:—
'In the 1981 Act the following section is inserted after section 35.
"35A Duty of Ministers to dispose of carcasses
The Minister shall have a duty to dispose of the carcass of any animal slaughtered under the provisions of this Act within forty-eight hours of its slaughter.".'.
Consultation
Mr Peter Ainsworth
Mrs Ann Winterton
Mr Keith Simpson
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mrs Angela Browning
Mr Bill Wiggin
NC8
To move the following Clause:—
'No provision in this Act shall come into force prior to the publication of the conclusions of a formal consultation with the following bodies:
The British Veterinary Association; the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; the National Farmers' Union; Compassion in World Farming; the Country Land and Business Association; the Local Government Association; the Countryside Alliance; the National Pig Association; the National Sheep Association; the Tenant Farmers' Association; the CPRE; the Council for National Parks; the British Association of Nature Conservationists; the Soil Association; the National Trust; RSPB; the Wildlife Trusts; the Ramblers Association; the British Ecological Society.'.
Transport of animals destined for slaughter
David Taylor
NC9
To move the following Clause:—
'In the 1981 Act the following section is inserted after section 8—
