Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Intervention Board : BSE, the cost of a crisis report / by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

  • National Audit Office
Date:
1998
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Credit: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Intervention Board : BSE, the cost of a crisis report / by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Contents Executive summary 1 Part 1: Background to the crisis and scope of the study 9 Announcement on 20 March 1996 and subsequent events 9 Responsibility for Government action on BSE ifs) Expenditure on BSE 16 Parliamentary concern 18 Scope and methodology of the National Audit Office examination 18 Part 2: The Over Thirty Month Scheme 21 Introduction 21 Nature and size of the scheme eZ Procurement of slaughtering and rendering services 26 Support payments to farmers 35 Systems for processing and paying claims 44 Part 3: Other schemes and market support measures 51 Introduction 51 Calf Processing Aid Scheme 52 Other support measures 56 Selective Cull 59 Cattle traceability 67 Other schemes ra Part 4: Administrative and other issues rhs Introduction he Incineration and disposal asi European Union reimbursements 83 Exit strategy 86 Special investigations 87 Impact of the BSE crisis on staffing 89 Glossary 92 Appendices 1: History of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 94 2: Review of short term market support measures 101 3: Comments from sectors of the beef industry 110 Chronology 119