These Regulations give effect in part to Commission Decision 95/287/EC amending Commission Decision 94/474/EC concerning certain protection measures relating to bovine spongiform encephalopathy and in part to Article 4(1) of Commission Decision 98/272/EC on epidemio-surveillance for bovine spongiform encephalopathy. They: (a) enable samples to be taken for the purpose of the official ELISA tests for the identification of ruminant protein in feed intended for ruminants to be carried out (reg. 3);