These Regulations make provision in Scotland for the administration and enforcement of the "Community Regulation", 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 (O.J. No. L 273, 10.10.2002, p.1.). They restrict what may be done in relation to such products. The Community Regulation categorizes the material comprising or containing animal by-products to which these Regulations apply. It is an offence to categorize, collect, transport, dispose, store, process or use material of specified categories other than in accordance with the Community Regulation (regs. 4, 5 and 6); It is a specific offence to collect, transport, identify or store animal by-products other than in accordance with the Community Regulation (reg. 8). Feeding unprocessed animal by-products to farmed animals is prohibited and access by such animals to animal by-products is controlled (reg. 9). Regulation 10 enforces the restrictions on the use of animal by-products in Article 22 of the Community Regulation including intra-species recycling, feeding catering waste to farm animals and the application of organic fertilizers on to pasture land. Regulations 13 to 16 provide for the approval of premises for the different types of treatment of animal by-products. Regulations 22 to 24 regulate the placing on the market of various processed animal by-products.
These Regulations make provision in Scotland for the administration and enforcement of the "Community Regulation", 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 (O.J. No. L 273, 10.10.2002, p.1.). They restrict what may be done in relation to such products. The Community Regulation categorizes the material comprising or containing animal by-products to which th
Made under the Animal Health Act 1981.Provision in Scotland for the administration and enforcement of measures in the Community Regulation in relation to export and trade between member States is intended to be made by a separate instrument.
Title:
Animal By-Products (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. No. 411 of 2003).
Country:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Type of document:
Regulation
Date of text:
2003
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Yes
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