These Regulations make provision in Wales for the administration and enforcement of 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 ("Community Regulation") and for enforcement of other Community instruments.
The Regulations make it an offence to categorize, collect, transport, dispose, store, process or use, category 1, category 2 or category 3 material other than in accordance with the Community Regulation. It shall also be an offence to collect, transport, identify or store animal by-products other than in accordance with that Community Regulation. The Regulations further, among other things: restrict access to catering waste and other animal by-products, enforce the restrictions on the feeding of catering waste and processed animal protein in Article 22 of the Community Regulation and enforce the restrictions in Article 22 of the Community Regulation on the application of organic fertilizer to pasture land.