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Community rules for composting and biogasification of animal by-products European Commission Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FOOD BY-PRODUCTS DEAD ANIMALS WASTE (exc. TSE animals) exc cat.waste RENDERING PLANT Technical and pharmaceutical Feed ingredients products

Revision of EC Legislation on Animal By-Products not intended for Human Consumption

• Prohibition of recycling certain animal by-products into the animal feed chain, namely dead animals and other condemned material • Introduction of a number of alternative methods for the use or disposal of animal by-products, including compost and biogasification • Link with Environmental legislation • Strengthening of rules on controls and traceability in this sector • Creation of a new legal framework for animal by-products not intended for human consumption • Simplification of existing EC legislation =>creation of a consolidated legislative act dealing with all animal by-products not intended for human consumption

DIR.90/667/EC NEW PROPOSAL ANIMAL ANIMAL WASTE BY-PRODUCTS Category 1 High risk material Category 2 Low risk Category 3 material

• category 1 material : animal by-products presenting a TSE risk or an unknown risk or a risk related to treatment with illegal substances or to environmental contaminants • category 2 material: animal by-products presenting risk related to animal diseases or residues of veterinary drugs • category 3 material: animal by-products derived from healthy animals

• Included in the scope of the Regulation by EP and Council following the FMD crisis • Covered by the Regulation only when – derived from international means of transport – destined to animal consumption – destined for use in a biogas plant or for composting

ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS OF DISPOSAL OF ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS • INCINERATION • LANDFILL • CO-INCINERATION • BIOGAS • COMPOSTING • USE OF MBM AS FERTILIZER • OTHER ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF DISPOSAL TO BE ADOPTED IN COMITOLOGY (i.e. Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health -Section Biological Safety)

• Animals suspected of being infected by a TSE or where the presence of a TSE has been suspected or officially confirmed, including animals which were killed in the context of TSE eradication measures • Specified Risk Material -SRM (including dead ruminant animals containing it) • animal material collected when treating waste water from cat.1 processing plants and premises where SRM are removed • pet animals, zoo and circus animals • experimental animals • products derived from animals to which have been administrated substances prohibited under Directive 96/22/EC or containing residues of environmental contaminants listed in Group B (3) of Annex I Dir.96/23 exceeding permitted levels set in Community legislation • catering waste from international means of transport

Incineration Dir.2000/76 Category 1 Co-incineration Category 1 material Dir.2000/76 processing plant No TSE 133° animals Derogation for burial/burning Landfill in remote areas/ Dir.1999/31 emergency circumstances/ pet animals

• Manure and digestive tract content from mammalian animals • Animal material collected when treating waste water from cat.2 and 3 processing plants and slaughterhouses • Products containing residues of veterinary drugs and contaminants listed Group B (1) and (2) of Annex I to Directive 96/23, if such residues exceed the permitted level laid down by Community legislation • animal by-products other than Category 1 or Category 3 material – Farmed animals which have died or been killed but not slaughtered for human consumption – fish with clinical signs of communicable diseases

Incineration Dir.2000/76 Co-incineration Dir.2000/76 Category 2 Category 2 Fish material processing plant ensilage 133° Oleo-chemical manure Bio-gas Landfill composting Dir.1999/31 Spread on Fertilisers land

• All parts of slaughtered animals which have been derived from carcases passed fit for human consumption following ante and post mortem inspection • Non ruminant blood, hides and skins, hooves and horns, pig bristles and feathers from slaughtered animals which have passed ante-mortem inspection • Shells, hatchery by-products and cracked egg by-products from animals which did not shows clinical signs of any disease communicable through that products to man or animals • Raw milk originating from healthy animals • Foodstuff destined to animal consumption for commercial reason or due to defects which do not present health risks • Fish caught on the open sea and fish offal from fish products plants • Blood, hides and skins, hooves, horns, blood, feathers, wool , hair and fur from animals which did not shows clinical signs of any disease communicable through that products to man or animals (for technical products only) • catering waste, including used cooking oils

Incineration Dir.2000/76 Technical Technical products plant Category 3 Cat 3 Feed Bio-gas Processing material material composting plant petfood Petfood plant Processing plant Co-incineration Landfill Dir.2000/76 Dir.1999/31

RULES ON COMPOST AND BIOGASIFICATION OF ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS General rules Specific rules for catering waste

General Rules for compost and biogasification of animal by-products • Only for categories 2 and 3 abp • biogas plants and composting plants must – be approved by competent authority – be under the surveillance of the competent authority – establish and implement an HACCP system • pretreatment (Method 1) of category 2 apb in approved processing plants • heat treatment : at least 70°C X 60 min. Equivalent treatments can be approved by Comitology (i.e. Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health -Section Biological Safety)! • Microbiological standards : Absence salmonella in 25g, limit for Enterobacteriaceae

Specific Rules for compost and biogasification of cat.3 catering waste –transformed in a biogas plant or composted in accordance with rules to be adopted in Comitology, or, –pending the adoption of such rules, in accordance with national law

• Ban of – feeding farmed animals with catering waste (ban of swill feeding) – application to pasture land of organic fertilisers and soil improvers, other than manure, in accordance with implementing rules to be adopted in comitology

• Rules for collection, transport and identification (markers) • record keeping • commercial document/health certificate • HACCP

• official controls –competent authority of MS –EU Food and Veterinary Office => Community inspections and audits • plants’ own-check

• Amendments 22 and 23 exclude catering waste from the control rules of the Regulation and making reference to art.4 of Directive 75/442/EEC • Amendment 25 aiming for – a specific Regulation laying down rules for the safe disposal of catering waste to be proposed by the Commission within 6 months after the adoption of the ABP Regulation – a derogation for 4 years for the use of catering waste in animal feed

WIDE VARIETY OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT IN EU MS FOR PROCESSING AND DISPOSAL OF ABP CONDITIONS OF COMPETION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS COMMUNITY HARMONISED RULES TO BE ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL ON COMM PROPOSAL