Commission Decision of 17 April 2007 concerning lists of animals and products to be subject to controls at border inspection posts under Council Directives 91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC (notified under document number C(2007) 1547) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/275/EC)

[F1CHAPTER 23 U.K. Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder

Note to Chapter 23 U.K.
1. Heading 2309 includes products of a kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or included, obtained by processing vegetable or animal materials to such an extent that they have lost the essential characteristics of the original material, other than vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-products of such processing. U.K.
Extract from the Harmonised System Explanatory Notes U.K.

Greaves are used mainly in the preparation of animal foods (e.g., dog biscuits), but they remain in heading 2301 even if suitable for human consumption.

CN code Description Qualification and explanation
(1) (2) (3)
2301 Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves.

All, covers processed animal protein not for human consumption, meat meal not for human consumption, and greaves, whether or not for human consumption.

Feather meal is covered in heading 0505 .

Specific requirements for processed animal protein are set out in Row 1 of Table 1 of Section 1 of Chapter I of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.

Ex2309 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding.

All, except subheadings 2309 90 20 . and 2309 90 91 .

Covers, among other things, dog or cat food, put up for retail sale (subheading 2309 10 ), containing animal products and fish or marine mammal solubles (CN code 2309 90 10 ). Products for animal feeding purposes, including mixtures of meals (such as hoof and horn).

This heading covers liquid milk, colostrum and products containing milk products, colostrum, and/or carbohydrates, all not for human consumption but for animal feeding.

Covers petfood, dogchews and mixtures of meals, mixtures can include dead insects.

Specific requirements for petfood including dogchews are set out in Row 12 of Table 2 of Section 1 of Chapter I of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.

Covers egg products not for human consumption and other processed products of animal origin not for human consumption.

Specific requirements for egg products are set out in Row 9 of Table 1 of Section 1 of Chapter I of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.]