9The 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th recitals in the preamble to Decision 2001/376 are worded as follows:(7) A ban on the use of specified risk materials in human food or animal feed was introduced in Portugal on 4 December 1998. The ban has been extended in accordance with Commission Decision 2000/418/EC of 29 June 2000 regulating the use of material presenting risks as regards transmissible spongiform encephalopathies [OJ 2000 L 158, p. 76], as amended by Decision 2001/2/EC [OJ 2001 L 1, p. 21].(8) According to the national BSE eradication plan in place in Portugal, birth cohorts and offspring of BSE cases shall be slaughtered and destroyed.(9) A new centralised national system for identification and registration of bovine animals (SNIRB) was introduced in Portugal as of 1 July 1999.(10) Portugal presented its first request for a date-based export scheme with a view to permitting, subject to certain conditions, the dispatch of products from animals born after a certain date, to the Commission on 3 December 1999. These technical proposals were subsequently amended and supplemented on 18 February, 24 March, 27 July and 22 September. The amended and supplemented proposals provide a suitable framework for allowing the dispatch and export of products derived from bovine animals slaughtered in Portugal.(11) The measures for implementation of the export scheme and the offspring cull will be examined by the Food and Veterinary Office of the Commission before the dispatch of meat and meat products may commence. If that examination is satisfactory the Commission will set the date on which dispatch may commence.’
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