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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/106
29 November 2000
(00-5105)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible:  Health & Consumer Protecti on Directorate-General (SANCO)
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  Feedingstuffs derived from terrestrial animals   Regions or countries likely to
be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  EC member States
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Draft Commission Decision
prohibiting the use of certain animal by-products in animal feed (4 pages)
5. Description of content:  Further to the proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EEC/103, and in the
meantime the legal drafts notified there have come into force, the Commission has decided
that the following animal waste are not allowe d to be used for the production of feedingstuffs
in the European Communities :  all bovine animals, pigs, goats, sheep, solipeds, poultry and
other farm animals which have died on the farm but were not slaughtered for humanconsumption, including stillborn and unborn an imals; pet animals, zoo animals, circus
animals, experimental animals; animals which are killed on the farm for disease control
measures and - without prejudice to instances of emergency slaughtering for reasons of
welfare - farm animals which have died in transit.
6. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety,  [  X ] animal health,  [     ] plant protection,
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [     ] protect territory from
other damage from pests           
7. Nature of the urgent problem(s):  Control of the spread of Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy through the feed chain.
8. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [  X ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give its appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:           
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  SANCO/4032/2000
Rev.2 (Available in all EC languages).
10. Date of entry into force/period of application (as applicable):  1 March 2001G/SPS/N/EEC/106
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11. Texts available from/and agency or authority designated to handle comments:
[ X ] National notification authority, [     ] EC enquiry point or address, fax number
and E-mail address (if available) of other body: The opinions of the Scientific Steering
Committee can be downloaded from:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/ssc/index_en.html .
Relevant to this decision are the Scientific Steering Committee opinions on:
• The safety of Mammalian derived meat-and-bone meal forming a cross-contaminant of
animal feedstuffs (25 September 98)
• The risks of non conventional transmissible agents, conventional infectious agents or
other hazards such as toxic substances entering the human food or animal feed via raw
material from fallen stock and dead animals (including also: ruminants, pigs, poultry,
fish, wild/exotic/zoo animals, fur animals, cats and laboratory animals) or via
condemned material (25 June 99 re-edited on 23 July 99).
• The risk borne by recycling animal by-products as feed with regard to propagating TSE
in non-ruminant farmed animals (17 September 99).