Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (repealed)Show full title

ANNEX I U.K. SPECIFIC DEFINITIONS

For the purpose of this Regulation:

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[F1 ‘ apiculture by-products ’ means honey, beeswax, royal jelly, propolis or pollen not intended for human consumption;]

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‘batch’ means a unit of production produced in a single plant using uniform production parameters — or a number of such units, when stored together — and that can be identified for the purposes of recall and re-treatment or disposal should tests show that to be necessary;

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‘biogas plant’ means a plant in which biological degradation of products of animal origin is undertaken under anaerobic conditions for the production and collection of biogas;

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‘blood products’ means products derived from blood or fractions of blood, excluding blood meal; they include dried/frozen/liquid plasma, dried whole blood, dried/frozen/liquid red cells or fractions thereof and mixtures;

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‘blood’ means fresh whole blood;

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‘bloodmeal’ means products derived from the heat-treatment of blood in accordance with Annex VII, Chapter II, and intended for animal consumption or organic fertilizers;

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‘canned petfood’ means heat-processed petfood contained within a hermetically sealed container;

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‘Category 1 or Category 2 intermediate plant’ means a plant in which unprocessed Category 1 or Category 2 material is handled and/or temporarily stored for the purpose of further transportation to its final destination and where certain preliminary activities, such as removal of hides and skins and performing post-mortem examinations, may take place;

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‘Category 1 processing plant’ means a plant in which Category 1 material is processed before its final disposal;

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‘Category 2 oleochemical plant’ means a plant processing rendered fats derived from Category 2 material under conditions set out in Annex VI, Chapter III;

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‘Category 2 processing plant’ means a plant in which Category 2 material is processed before its final disposal, further transformation or use;

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‘Category 3 intermediate plant’ means a plant in which unprocessed Category 3 material is sorted and/or cut and/or chilled or deep-frozen into blocks and/or temporarily stored for the purpose of further transporting to its final destination;

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‘Category 3 oleochemical plant’ means a plant processing rendered fats derived from Category 3 material;

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‘Category 3 processing plant’ means a plant in which Category 3 material is processed into processed animal protein and other processed products that could be used as feed material;

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[F2 ‘ catering waste ’ means all waste food including used cooking oil originating in restaurants, catering facilities and kitchens, including central kitchens and household kitchens;]

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‘co-incineration plant’ means a disposal site as defined in Article 3(5) of Directive 2000/76/EC;

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‘co-incineration’ means the disposal of animal by-products or products derived therefrom in a co-incineration plant;

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‘collection centres’ means premises collecting and treating certain animal by-products intended to be used for the feeding of the animals specified in Article 23(2)(c);

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‘composting plant’ means a plant in which biological degradation of products of animal origin is undertaken under aerobic conditions;

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‘digestion residues’ means residues resulting from the transformation of animal by-products in a biogas plant;

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‘digestive tract content’ means the content of the digestive tract of mammals and ratites, whether or not separated from the digestive tract;

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‘dogchews’ means untanned products for pet animals to chew, produced from hides and skins of ungulates or other animal material;

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‘feed material’ means those feed materials, as defined in Directive 96/25/EC(1), that are of animal origin including processed animal proteins, blood products, rendered fats, fish oil, fat derivatives, gelatin and hydrolysed proteins, dicalcium phosphate, milk, milk-based products and colostrum;

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‘fishmeal’ means processed animal protein derived from sea animals, except sea mammals;

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‘fur animals’ means animals kept or reared for the production of fur and not used for human consumption;

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‘gelatin’ means natural, soluble protein, gelling or non-gelling, obtained by the partial hydrolysis of collagen produced from bones, hides and skins, tendons and sinews of animals (including fish and poultry);

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‘greaves’ means the protein-containing residue of rendering, after partial separation of fat and water;

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‘hermetically sealed container’ means a container that is designed and intended to be secure against the entry of micro-organisms;

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‘hides and skins’ means all cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues;

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‘high-capacity incineration plant’ means an incineration plant other than a low-capacity incineration plant;

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‘hydrolysed proteins’ means polypeptides, peptides and aminoacids, and mixtures thereof, obtained by the hydrolysis of animal by-products;

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‘incineration plant’ means a disposal site as defined in Article 3(4) of Directive 2000/76/EC;

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‘incineration’ means the disposal of animal by-products or products derived therefrom in an incineration plant;

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‘laboratory reagent’ means a packaged product, ready for use by the end user, containing a blood product, and intended for laboratory use as reagent or reagent product, whether used alone or in combination;

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‘landfill’ means a disposal site as defined by Directive 1999/31/EC;

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‘low-capacity incineration plant’ means an incineration plant with a throughput of less than 50 kg of animal by-products per hour;

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[F2 ‘ manure ’ means any excrement and/or urine of farmed animals, with or without litter, or guano, that may be either unprocessed or processed in accordance with Chapter III of Annex VIII or otherwise transformed in biogas or composting plants;]

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‘organic fertilizers’ and ‘soil improvers’ mean materials of animal origin used to maintain or improve plant nutrition and the physical and chemical properties and biological activity of soils, either separately or together; they may include manure, digestive tract content, compost and digestion residues;

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‘[F3 pasture land’means land covered with grass or other herbage grazed by or used as feedingstuffs for farmed animals, excluding land to which organic fertilisers and soil improvers have been applied in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 181/2006 (2) ;]

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‘[F4 petfood plant’ means a plant producing petfood or dogchews or flavouring innards and in which certain animal by-products are used in the preparation of such petfood, dogchews or flavouring innards;]

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‘petfood’ means food for pet animals containing Category 3 material;

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[F1 ‘ processed animal protein ’ means animal protein derived entirely from Category 3 material, which have been treated in accordance with Chapter II of Annex VII so as to render them suitable for direct use as feed material or for any other use in feedingstuffs, including petfood, or for use in organic fertilisers or soil improvers; however, it does not include blood products, milk, milk-based products, colostrum, gelatine, hydrolysed proteins and dicalcium phosphate, eggs and egg-products, tricalcium phosphate and collagen;]

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‘processed petfood’ means petfood, other than raw petfood, that has undergone treatment in accordance with the requirements of Annex VIII;

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‘processed products’ means animal by-products that have undergone one of the processing methods or another treatment required by Annex VII or VIII;

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‘processing methods’ means the methods listed in Annex V, Chapter III;

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‘processing plant’ means an animal by-products processing plant;

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‘product used for in vitro diagnosis’ means a packaged product, ready for use by the end user, containing a blood product, and used as a reagent, reagent product, calibrator, kit or any other system, whether used alone or in combination, intended to be used in vitro for the examination of samples of human or animal origin, with the exception of donated organs or blood, solely or principally with a view to the diagnosis of a physiological state, state of health, disease or genetic abnormality or to determine safety and compatibility with reagents;

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‘raw petfood’ means petfood which has not undergone any preserving process other than chilling, freezing or quick freezing to ensure preservation;

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‘remote areas’ means areas where the animal population is so small, and where facilities are so far away, that the arrangements necessary for collection and transport would be unacceptably onerous compared to local disposal;

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‘rendered fats’ means fats derived from processing of Category 2 material or Category 3 material;

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‘storage plant’ means a plant, other than establishments and intermediaries covered by Directive 95/69/EC(3), in which processed products are temporarily stored before their final use or disposal;

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‘tanning’ means the hardening of hides, using vegetable tanning agents, chromium salts or other substances such as aluminium salts, ferric salts, silicic salts, aldehydes and quinones, or other synthetic hardening agents;

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‘technical plant’ means a plant in which animal by-products are used to produce technical products;

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‘technical products’ means products directly derived from certain animal by-products, intended for purposes other than human or animal consumption, including tanned and treated hides and skins, game trophies, processed wool, hair, bristles, feathers and parts of feathers, serum of equidae, blood products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, cosmetics, bone products for china, gelatin and glue, organic fertilizers, soil improvers, rendered fats, fat derivatives, processed manure and milk and milk-based products;

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[F2 ‘ unprocessed feathers and parts of feathers ’ means feathers and parts of feathers that have not been treated with a steam current or by some other method that ensures that no pathogens remain;

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‘ unprocessed wool ’ means sheep's wool that has not undergone factory washing, been obtained from tanning, or been treated by some other method that ensures that no pathogens remain;

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‘ unprocessed hair ’ means ruminant hair that has not undergone factory washing, been obtained from tanning, or been treated by some other method that ensures that no pathogens remain;

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‘ unprocessed pig bristles ’ means pig bristles that have not undergone factory washing, been obtained from tanning, or been treated by some other method that ensures that no pathogens remain;]

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[F5 ‘ collagen ’ means protein-based products derived from hides, skins and tendons of animals, including bones in the case of pigs, poultry and fish;

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‘ screenings ’ means visible solid animal materials retained in the waste water screen where a pre-treatment process as referred to in Annex II, Chapter IX, is required;

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‘ grease and oil mixture ’ means floating animal materials collected at the surface of waste water grease remover systems where a pre-treatment process as referred to in Annex II, Chapter IX, is required;

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‘ sludge ’ means visible solid animal materials or sediments retained in the waste water drains where a pre-treatment process as referred to in Annex II, Chapter IX, is required;

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‘material from desanding’ means visible solid animal materials or sediments retained in desanding systems where these constitute a pre-treatment process referred to in Annex II, Chapter IX [F4 ;] ]

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‘[F6 flavouring innard’ means a liquid or dehydrated processed product of animal origin used to enhance the palatability values of petfood [F7 ;]

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[F8 ‘ colour-coding ’ means the systematic use of colours as defined in Chapter I of Annex II for displaying information as provided for in this Regulation on the surface or part of the surface of a packaging, container or vehicle, or on a label or symbol applied to them.] ]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 829/2007 of 28 June 2007 amending Annexes I, II, VII, VIII, X and XI to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the placing on the market of certain animal by-products (Text with EEA relevance).

F2 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 808/2003 of 12 May 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption (Text with EEA relevance).

F3 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 181/2006 of 1 February 2006 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 as regards organic fertilisers and soil improvers other than manure and amending that Regulation (Text with EEA relevance).

F4 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 668/2004 of 10 March 2004 amending certain Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the importation from third countries of animal by-products (Text with EEA relevance).

F5 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 808/2003 of 12 May 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption (Text with EEA relevance).

F6 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 668/2004 of 10 March 2004 amending certain Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the importation from third countries of animal by-products (Text with EEA relevance).

F7 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1432/2007 of 5 December 2007 amending Annexes I, II and VI to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the marking and transport of animal by-products (Text with EEA relevance).

F8 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1432/2007 of 5 December 2007 amending Annexes I, II and VI to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the marking and transport of animal by-products (Text with EEA relevance).

(1)

Council Directive 96/25/EC of 29 April 1996 on the circulation of feed materials, amending Directives 70/524/EEC, 74/63/EEC, 82/471/EEC and 93/74/EEC and repealing Directive 77/101/EEC (OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 35). Directive as last amended by Directive 2001/46/EC (OJ L 234, 1.9.2001, p. 55).

(2)

[F3 OJ L 29, 2.2.2006, p. 31 .]

(3)

Council Directive 95/69/EC of 22 December 1995 laying down the conditions and arrangements for approving and registering certain establishments and intermediaries operating in the animal feed sector and amending Directives 70/524/EEC, 74/63/EEC, 79/373/EEC and 82/471/EEC (OJ L 332, 30.12.1995, p. 15). Directive as last amended by Directive 1999/29/EC (OJ L 115, 4.5.1999, p. 32).

Textual Amendments

F3 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 181/2006 of 1 February 2006 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 as regards organic fertilisers and soil improvers other than manure and amending that Regulation (Text with EEA relevance).