ACT : Commission Regulation 668/2004/EC amending certain Annexes to Regulation 1774/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the importation from third countries of animal by-products.
CONTENT : Regulation 1774/2002/EC provides that certain processed products that may be used as feed material and petfood, dogchews and technical products may be imported into the Community provided that they comply with the relevant requirements of that Regulation.
Following the Scientific Steering Committee's opinion of 10 and 11 May 2001 on the safety of collagen, this Regulation aims to lay down the specific hygiene conditions to be applied for the processing and marketing of collagen that may be used as feed material.
Consequently, Regulation 668/2004/EC aims to amend the following:
- Annex VII to Regulation 1774/2002/EC which sets out specific hygiene requirements for the processing and placing on the market of processed animal protein and other processed products that could be used as feed material should therefore be amended accordingly;
- Annex VIII to Regulation 1774/2002/EC sets out requirements for the placing on the market of petfood, dogchews and technical products. It is necessary to amend that Annex, in order to introduce some technical amendments, to include the marking requirements of Article 28 of that Regulation for by-products intended for petfood derived from animals which have been treated with certain substances, and to clarify the import requirements applicable to fat derivatives and to certain processed products associated with the production of petfood, known as "flavouring innards";
- Annex X to Regulation 1774/2002/EC sets out a model health certificate for the importation from third countries of certain animal by-products and products derived therefrom. It is necessary to amend that Annex, in order to create additional models of importation certificates and to review the existing models to introduce some technical amendments including animal health considerations;
- Annex XI to Regulation 1774/2002/EC sets out lists of third countries from which Member States may authorise imports of animal by-products not intended for human consumption.
ENTRY INTO FORCE : 19/04/2004. The Regulation shall apply from 01/05/2004.�