These Regulations, which extend to Great Britain, give effect in part to articles 3(1) and 4(1) of Commission Decision 98/272/EC on epidemio-surveillance for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in sheep and goats. Regulation 3 provides for the investigation of any transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in sheep and goats, the examination and testing of sheep and goats, and the taking of samples from them, for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. It also provides for the marking of the