The Animal By-Products (Identification) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1.  These Regulations amend the Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/614, as already amended) in so far as they apply to Wales. Those Regulations (“the 1995 Regulations”) in their application to Wales currently make provision for the sterilisation or staining of animal by-products and for the control of the movement of such by-products.

2.  The effect of the amendments is that animal by-products may no longer be sterilised. Staining is now required in all cases, except where specified in regulation 5(2), 6(2) or 7(2) of the 1995 Regulations. The effect of the amendments is that staining is not required where an animal by-product is immediately moved in the manner specified in regulation 6(4) or, as the case may be, 7(3) of the 1995 Regulations to premises approved under article 7 of the Animal By-Products Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/646, as amended) for rendering there or to other premises for incineration there in accordance with article 10 of that Order.

3.  The exemption from the requirement as to staining or sterilisation imposed by regulations 6 and 7 which is contained in regulation 5(2)(a) of the 1995 Regulations and which operates in favour of poultry by-products is removed and replaced with an exemption which operates in favour of poultry heads and feet which have been subjected to a post-mortem veterinary inspection and which, during the course of the inspection, did not show gross pathological lesions indicating disease communicable to man or animals (regulation 2(4)).

4.  Regulation 2(2) of these Regulations amends the interpretation provision of the 1995 Regulations by substituting for the definition denoting the Animal By-Products Order 1992 a new definition denoting the Animal By-Products Order 1999 and inserting a definition of “approved premises”. Regulation 2(3) makes a minor amendment to the definition of “animal by-product” in relation to 3(1) of the 1995 Regulations..

5.  A Regulatory appraisal has been prepared in respect of these Regulations. A copy of it has been placed in the library of the National Assembly for Wales. Further copies of the assessment can be obtained from the Food Standards Agency, First Floor, Southgate House, Wood Street, Cardiff CF10 1EW.