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Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption (repealed)
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1.Member States shall take all necessary measures to guarantee that animal by-products, and products derived therefrom referred to in Annexes VII and VIII, are not dispatched from any holding situated in a zone subject to restrictions because of the occurrence of a disease to which the species from which the product is derived is susceptible, or from any plant or zone from which movements or trade would constitute a risk to the animal health status of the Member States or areas of Member States, except where products are treated in accordance with this Regulation.
2.The measures referred to in paragraph 1 shall guarantee that the products are obtained from animals that:
(a)come from a holding, territory or part of a territory or, in the case of aquaculture products, from a farm, zone or part of a zone, not subject to animal health restrictions applicable to the animals and products concerned, and in particular restrictions under disease control measures imposed by Community legislation or by virtue of a serious transmissible disease listed in Council Directive 92/119/EEC of 17 December 1992 introducing general Community measures for the control of certain animal diseases and specific measures relating to swine vesicular disease(1);
(b)were not slaughtered in a plant in which animals infected, or suspected of being infected, with one of the diseases covered by the rules referred to in (a) were present at the time of slaughter.
3.Subject to compliance with the disease control measures referred to in paragraph 2(a), the placing on the market of animal by-products, and products derived therefrom referred to in Annexes VII and VIII, that come from a territory or part of a territory subject to animal health restrictions but are not infected or suspected of being infected shall be permitted provided that, as appropriate, the products:
(a)are obtained, handled, transported and stored separately from or at different times from products fulfilling all animal health conditions;
(b)have undergone a treatment sufficient to eliminate the animal health problem concerned in accordance with this Regulation at a plant approved for that purpose by the Member State where the animal health problem occurred;
(c)are properly identified;
(d)comply with the requirements laid down in Annexes VII and VIII, or with detailed rules to be laid down in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 33(2).
Conditions alternative to those set out in the first subparagraph may be laid down in specific situations by decisions adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 33(2). Such decisions shall take account of any measures concerning the animals or tests to be carried out on them and the specific characteristics of the disease in the species concerned and shall specify any measures needed to ensure the protection of animal health in the Community.
1.Category 3 processing plants shall be subject to approval by the competent authority.
2.To be approved, Category 3 processing plants must:
(a)meet the requirements of Annex V, Chapter I, and Annex VII, Chapter I;
(b)handle, process and store only Category 3 material in accordance with Annex V, Chapter II, and Annex VII;
(c)be validated by the competent authority in accordance with Annex V, Chapter V;
(d)undergo the plant's own checks provided for in Article 25;
(e)be checked by the competent authority in accordance with Article 26; and
(f)ensure that, after processing, the products satisfy the requirements of Annex VII, Chapter I.
3.Approval shall be suspended immediately if the conditions under which it was granted are no longer fulfilled.
1.Petfood plants and technical plants shall be subject to approval by the competent authority.
2.To be approved, the petfood plant or the technical plant must:
(a)undertake, in the light of the specific requirements laid down in Annex VIII for the products the plant produces:
to comply with the specific production requirements set out in this Regulation;
to establish and implement methods of monitoring and checking the critical control points on the basis of the process used;
depending on the products, to take samples for analyses in a laboratory recognised by the competent authority for the purposes of checking compliance with the standards established by this Regulation;
to keep a record of the information obtained pursuant to points (ii) and (iii) for presentation to the competent authority. The results of the checks and tests shall be kept for at least two years;
to inform the competent authority, should the result of the laboratory examination referred to in point (iii) or any other information available to them reveal the existence of a serious animal health or public health hazard; and
(b)to be checked by the competent authority in accordance with Article 26.
3.Approval shall be suspended immediately if the conditions under which it was granted are no longer fulfilled.
Member States shall ensure that processed animal protein and other processed products that could be used as feed material are placed on the market or exported only if they:
have been prepared in a Category 3 processing plant approved and supervised in accordance with Article 17;
have been prepared exclusively with Category 3 material, as specified in Annex VII;
have been handled, processed, stored and transported in accordance with Annex VII and in such a manner as to ensure compliance with Article 22; and
meet the specific requirements laid down in Annex VII.
1.Member States shall ensure that petfood, dogchews, technical products, other than those referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3, and those animal by-products referred to in Annex VIII are placed on the market or exported only if they:
(a)meet either:
the specific requirements laid down in Annex VIII, or
when a product could be used both as a technical product and as feed material, and Annex VIII contains no specific requirements, the specific requirements laid down by the relevant Chapter of Annex VII; and
(b)come from plants approved and supervised in accordance with Article 18 or, in the case of animal by-products referred to in Annex VIII, from other plants approved in accordance with Community veterinary legislation.
2.Member States shall ensure that organic fertilizers and soil improvers produced from processed products, other than those produced from manure and digestive tract content, are placed on the market or exported only if they meet requirements, if any, laid down in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 33(2), after consultation of the appropriate scientific committee.
3.Member States shall ensure that fat derivatives produced from Category 2 material are placed on the market or exported only if they:
(a)have been prepared in a Category 2 oleochemical plant approved in accordance with Article 14 from rendered fats resulting from the processing of Category 2 material in a Category 2 processing plant approved in accordance with Article 13 following the application of any of processing methods 1 to 5;
(b)have been handled, processed, stored and transported in accordance with Annex VI; and
(c)meet any specific requirements laid down in Annex VIII.
Article 10 of Directive 90/425/EEC shall apply to the products covered by Annexes VII and VIII to this Regulation.
1.The following uses of animal by-products and processed products are prohibited:
(a)the feeding of a species with processed animal protein derived from the bodies or parts of bodies of animals of the same species;
(b)the feeding of farmed animals other than fur animals with catering waste or feed material containing or derived from catering waste; and
(c)the application to pasture land of organic fertilizers and soil improvers, other than manure.
2.Rules for the implementation of this Article, including rules concerning control measures, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 33(2). Derogations from paragraph 1(a) may be granted in relation to fish and fur animals by the same procedure, after consultation of the appropriate scientific committee.
OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 69. Directive as last amended by the 1994 Act of Accession.
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