The main purpose of the monitoring programme is to provide a reliable insight into the prevelance of
BSE in the Member States. At the same time it ensures that no BSE cases are being slaughtered for human consumption.
This increases beef safety in combination with other measures such as the removal and destruction of
specified risk materials. The compilation of Member State data is important to enhance our understanding of the
epidemiology of TSEs and allows us to better identify the future direction policies should take to protect animal and human
health.
Contained within this Monitoring section are the following:
Monthly reports of Member States on BSE and Scrapie contain the information forwarded
to the Commission on a monthly basis.
Annual reports of Member States on BSE and Scrapie provides an overview of the monitoring results.
The compilation of Member State data is important to enhance our understanding of the epidemiology of
TSEs and allows us to better identify the future direction policies should take to protect animal and
human health.
Third country - this topic provides information on the number of reported cases of bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) worldwide* (* excluding the United Kingdom).
