S.I. No. 77 of 2001

European Communities (Disposal, Processing and Placing on the Market of Animal By-products) (Amendment) Regulations, 2001

I, Joe Walsh, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 ( No. 27 of 1972 ), and for the purpose of giving effect to Commission Decision No. 2001/25/EC ¹ of 27 December 2000, hereby make the following Regulations:-

1.        (1)       These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Disposal, Processing and Placing on the Market of Animal By-products) (Amendment) Regulations, 2001.

(2)       These Regulations shall come into operation on the 8th day of March, 2001.

(3)       A word or expression that is used in these Regulations and is also used in the Commission Decision has, unless the contrary intention appears, the meaning in these Regulations that it has in the Commission Decision.

2.         The European Communities (Disposal, Processing and Placing on the Market of Animal By-products) Regulations, 1994 ( S.I. No. 257 of 1994 ) are hereby amended by the addition of the following Regulation after Regulation 20 -

“20A.  The following animal by-products shall not be used for the production of feed for farmed animals:

(a)       all bovine animals, pigs, goats, sheep, solipeds, poultry, farmed fish and all other animals kept for agricultural production which have died on the farm but were not slaughtered for human consumption, including stillborn and unborn animals;

(b)       the following dead animals:

(i)        pet animals,

(ii)       zoo animals,

(iii)      circus animals,

(iv)      experimental animals,

(v)       wild animals as designated by the Minister;

(c)       animals which are killed on the farm for disease control measures;

(d)       without prejudice to instances of emergency slaughtering for reasons of welfare, farm animals which have died in transit.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations amend the European Communities (Disposal, Processing and Placing on the Market of Animal By-products) Regulations, 1994 by setting out a revised list of animals excluded from entering the animal feed chain.

Published by the Stationery Office, Dublin.

¹ O.J. No. L 6 of 11.1.2001, p. 16.