The above-mentioned report has been presented by an official of the FVO. 5. Examination of the answers provided by Member States on the questionnaire sent by the Commission on October 4th 1999. All Member States have indicated that in their territories, sludge resulting from the biological treatment of the water purification process as well as any material from sanitary facilities, are currently prohibited as ingredients in compound feedingstuffs. Nine Member States have anyway acknowledged recovering for the animal nutrition certain materials form the process water of food-industry establishments. This confusion has impeded to get an exact idea of which is the situation in the different Member states.
Further clarifications are therefore still imperative.
This draft decision envisages to prohibit the use in compound feedingstuffs of all materials obtained from the various phases of the wastewater treatment process, irrespective of any further processing of these materials and irrespective also of the origin of the waste waters. Update The Committee was informed that the mission report presented in the previous meeting of the Standing Committee as a draft can be considered as final. The Committee stressed the importance that the control system and certification is permanently correctly applied. Random controls will continue to verify the compliance with EU legislation. The Brazilian authorities should inform the European Commission in advance of any modification of their national legislation with regard to control and certification of citrus pulp pellets.