Commission Decision of 12 May 2003 on transitional measures under Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the heat treatment process for manure (notified under document number C(2003) 1505) (Only the French, Dutch, German, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2003/329/EC)

Article 1 U.K. Derogation regarding the heat treatment process for manure

Pursuant to Article 32(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 and by way of derogation from paragraph 5(b) of Chapter III of Annex VIII to that Regulation, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Finland may continue to grant individual approvals, until [F1 31 December 2006] at the latest, to operators of premises and facilities in conformity with national rules, to apply such rules, for the heat treatment process for manure, provided that the national rules:

(a)

guarantee the overall reduction of pathogens;

(b)

are only applied in premises and facilities that applied those rules on 1 November 2002; and

(c)

comply with the rest of the requirements of Chapter III of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Decision of 7 February 2006 amending Decision 2003/329/EC as regards the extension of the transitional measures on the heat treatment process for manure (notified under document number C(2006) 263) (Only the French, Dutch, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2006/129/EC).