These Regulations make provision for the enforcement of certain of the requirements of Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96, adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom (as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2109/2005 of 22 December 2005, OJ No. L337, 22.12.05, p. 25). The Commission Regulation introduced a scheme authorising the United Kingdom to purchase any bovine animal born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996 which does not exhibit any clinical sign of BSE and which was, during a period of at least six months prior to its sale, present on a holding located in United Kingdom territory. Various requirements are specified as to the slaughter, treatment and disposal of animals subject to the scheme.