Legal provisions of COM(2000)820 - Protection measures with regard to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and the feeding of animal protein

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dossier COM(2000)820 - Protection measures with regard to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and the feeding of animal protein.
document COM(2000)820 EN
date December  4, 2000


Contents

Article 1

For the purpose of this Decision the definition 'Processed animal proteins' means meat-and-bone meal, meat meal, bone meal, blood meal, dried plasma and other blood products, hydrolysed proteins, hoof meal, horn meal, poultry offal meal, feather meal, dry greaves, fishmeal, dicalcium phosphate, gelatine and any other similar products including mixtures, feedingstuffs, feed additives and premixtures, containing these products.

Article 2

1. Member States shall prohibit the feeding of processed animal proteins to farmed animals which are kept, fattened or bred for the production of food.

2. The prohibition referred to in paragraph 1 shall not apply to the feeding of:

- fishmeal to animals other than ruminants, in accordance with control measures to be fixed in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 17 of Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market(3),

- gelatine of non-ruminants for coating additives within the meaning of Council Directive 70/524/EEC of 23 November 1970 concerning additives in feedingstuffs(4),

- dicalcium phosphate and hydrolysed proteins obtained in accordance with the conditions to be fixed in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 17 of Directive 89/662/EEC,

- milk and milk products to farmed animals which are kept, fattened or bred for the production of food.

Article 3

1. With the exception of the derogations laid down in Article 2(2) the Member States shall:

(a) prohibit the placing on the market, the trade, the importation from third countries and the exportation to third countries of processed animal proteins intended for the feeding of farmed animals which are kept, fattened or bred for the production of food,

(b) ensure that all processed animal proteins intended for the feeding of farmed animals which are kept, fattened or bred for the production of food are withdrawn from the market, distribution channels and from on-farm storage.

2. Member States shall ensure that animal waste as defined by Directive 90/667/EEC(5) is collected, transported, processed, stored or disposed of in accordance with that Directive, Commission Decision 97/735/EC(6) and Council Decision 1999/534/EC(7).

Article 4

This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 2001.

It shall apply until 30 June 2001.

It may be adapted by the Commission before 30 June 2001 to the situation of each Member State in the light of the results of Commission inspections and the incidence of BSE, based on the results of BSE monitoring, with particular reference to testing of bovine animals over 30 months of age, as established by Commission Decision 2000/764/EC(8).

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.