Particular amendments are hereby laid down to Annexes X and XI to Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001. According to these new provisions, the following tissues shall be considered as specified risk material, to be removed and destroyed: (a) the skull, excluding the mandible and including the brain and eyes, and the spinal cord of bovine animals aged over 12 months; (b) the vertebral column, excluding the vertebrae of the tail, the spinous and transverse processes of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar ve