7.—(1) No person shall use any premises or equipment for rendering or part-rendering animal by-products unless the premises, the equipment and the operator of the premises are approved by the appropriate Minister in accordance with this article.
(2) The appropriate Minister shall grant approval under this article for premises and equipment for rendering or part-rendering high risk or low risk material if he is satisfied that—
(a)the premises comply with the requirements in Schedule 1 and will be maintained and operated in accordance with that Schedule;
(b)the material will be rendered or part-rendered in accordance with Schedule 2;
(c)the rendered material has been sampled on a daily basis over a period of 30 days before the approval is granted and the samples taken comply with the microbiological standards in article 3(2), except that this requirement shall not apply when animal by-products—
(i)are to be rendered in accordance with Method I of Part II of Schedule 2;
(ii)are to be part-rendered in accordance with the conditions of the approval; or
(iii)are non-mammalian by-products which are to be rendered for the production of swill for feeding to pigs or poultry;
(d)the equipment will not be used to render any specified risk material controlled by the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997 or the Specified Risk Material Order 1997;
(e)where appropriate, there will be no cross-contamination between different types of material; and
(f)all other conditions of this Order will be complied with.
(3) The approval shall specify—
(a)the operator and the address of the premises;
(b)the rendering equipment and the method of rendering or part-rendering;
(c)whether material may be rendered or part-rendered;
(d)the type of material which may be rendered or part-rendered;
(e)the parameters to be achieved during rendering or part-rendering; and
(f)any other conditions which the appropriate Minister considers necessary to ensure that this Order is complied with.
(4) While the rendered product is being tested in accordance with paragraph (2)(c) above, the appropriate Minister may grant a provisional approval for rendering the animal by-product, which shall specify how the rendered material shall be disposed of.