Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (repealed)Show full title

CHAPTER X U.K. Requirements for bones and bone products (excluding bone meal), horns and horn products (excluding horn meal) and hooves and hoof products (excluding hoof meal) intended for use other than as feed material, organic fertilizers or soil improvers

1. Member States must authorise the importation of bones and bone products (excluding bone meal), horns and horn products (excluding horn meal) and hooves and hoof products (excluding hoof meal) to produce technical products if: U.K.

(a)

the products are dried before export and not chilled or frozen;

(b)

the products are conveyed only by land and sea from their country of origin direct to a border inspection post in the Community and are not transhipped at any port or place outside the Community;

(c)

following the document checks provided for in Directive 97/78/EC, the products are conveyed directly to the technical plant[F1 ;]

(d)

[F2 they come from a third country appearing on the list set out in part XVII of Annex XI.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 668/2004 of 10 March 2004 amending certain Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the importation from third countries of animal by-products (Text with EEA relevance).

F2 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 668/2004 of 10 March 2004 amending certain Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the importation from third countries of animal by-products (Text with EEA relevance).

2. Each consignment must be accompanied by: U.K.

(a)

a commercial document stamped by the competent authority supervising the establishment of origin, including the following information:

(i)

the country of origin,

(ii)

the name of the establishment of production,

(iii)

the nature of the product (dried bone/dried bone product/dried horns/dried horn products/dried hooves/dried hoof products), and

(iv)

the fact that the product was:

• derived from healthy animals slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, or

• dried for 42 days at an average temperature of at least 20 ^oC, or

• heated for one hour to at least 80 ^oC to the core before drying, or

• [F1 ashed for one hour to at least 800  ^o C to the core before drying, or]

• underwent an acidification process such that the pH was maintained at less than 6 to the core for at least one hour before drying, and

is not intended at any stage to be diverted for any use in food, feed material, organic fertilizers or soil improvers; and

(b)

[F1 a declaration of the importer that conforms to the model laid down in Chapter 16 of Annex X and that must be in at least one official language of the Member State through which the consignment first enters the Community and in at least one official language of the Member State of destination.]

3. On dispatch to the Community territory, the material must be enclosed in sealed containers or vehicles or carried in bulk in a ship. If transported in containers, the containers, and in all cases all the accompanying documents, must bear the name and the address of the technical plant. U.K.

[F1 4. Following the border check provided for in Directive 97/78/EC, and in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 8(4) of that Directive, the material must be transported direct to the technical plant.] U.K.

5. Records must be kept of the quantity and nature of the material, during manufacture, in such a way as to ensure that the material has actually been used for the intended purposes. U.K.