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►B COMMISSIONDECISION
of14June1994
laying down the requirements for the importation from third countries of bones and bone
products, horns and horn products and hooves and hoof products, excluding meals thereof, for
furtherprocessingnotintendedforhumanoranimalconsumption
(TextwithEEArelevance)
(94/446/EC)
(OJ L 183, 19.7.1994, p. 46)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Commission Decision 94/461/EC of 11 July 1994 L 189 88 23.7.1994
►M2Commission Decision 94/775/EC of 28 November 1994 L 310 77 3.12.1994
►M3Commission Decision 95/88/EC of 2 March1995 L 69 45 29.3.1995
►M4Commission Decision 95/230/EC of 20 June 1995 L 154 19 5.7.1995
►M5Commission Decision 96/106/EC of 29 January 1996 L 24 34 31.1.1996
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COMMISSIONDECISION
of14June1994
layingdowntherequirementsfortheimportationfromthirdcoun-
tries of bones and bone products, horns and horn products andhooves and hoof products, excluding meals thereof, for further
processingnotintendedforhumanoranimalconsumption
(TextwithEEArelevance)
(94/446/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 92/118/EEC of 17 December 1992
laying down animal health and public health requirements governingtrade in and imports into the Community of products not subject to
the said requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred
to in Annex A (I) to Directive 89/662/EEC and, as regards pathogens,to Directive 90/425/EEC(
1), and in particular Article 10 (2) (a) and (c)
thereof,
Whereas Annex I Chapter 5 of the abovementioned Directive lays
down requirements for the import of bones and bone products, hornsand horn products and hooves and hoof products, excluding mealsthereof, not being intended for human or animal consumption;
Whereas for trade purposes those products must be accompanied by a
commercial document;
Whereas in order to enable checks to be carried out on the imports of
the abovementioned products, a similar document must accompanysuch imports, which will indicate, together with other information, thenature of the product;
Whereas, in view of the particular nature of the products, specific
control conditions must be laid down to ensure that they are not deliv-ered for direct use in human or animal food including a declaration bythe importer and specific transport conditions;
Whereas, since a new certification scheme is established, a period of
time should be provided for its implementation;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance
with the opinion of the Standing Veterinary Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Member States shall authorize the importation from third countries of
bones and bone products (excluding bone meal), horns and horn
products (excluding horn meal), and hooves and hoof products(excluding hoof meal), intended for further processing but not for directuse in human or animal food, only if:
— the commercial documents accompanying the consignment include
the information laid down in Annex A, and
— the consignment is accompanied by the declaration of the importer
as laid down in Annex B, which must be in at least one officiallanguage of the Member State through which the consignment firstenters the Community and in at least one official language of theMember State of destination.1994D0446 — EN — 31.01.1996 — 005.001 — 2
(1) OJ No L 62, 15. 3. 1993, p. 49.
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Article 2
The official veterinarian of the border inspection post at the first point
of entry into the Community must countersign the declaration of the
importer and stamp it with the official stamp of the border inspection
post.
The stamped declaration must accompany the consignment to the
processing establishment, which must be that specified in the declara-tion; it must be retained for a period of at least one year.
Article 3
After importation the following minimum conditions shall be met:
(a) On dispatch the Community territory, the material shall be enclosed
in lead-sealed container units or trucks or in bulk in a vessel. Iftransported in containers the containers and in all cases the accom-panying documents must be clearly marked: ‘not for use in human
or animal food’. The containers and the accompanying documents
shall bear the name and address of the processing establishment.
(b) The material shall be transported direct to the processing establish-
ment from the point of arrival in Community territory in containers
or means of transport which are sealed.
(c) On arrival in the territory of the Community and before dispatch of
the material to the processing notification of intended dispatch shallbe made as quickly as possible to the local official veterinarian or
competent authority by Animo message or, when this is not
possible, by telex or telefax.
(d) Records shall be kept of the quantity and nature of the material,
during manufacture, in such a way as to ensure that the material
has actually been used for the intended purpose.
Article 4
This Decision shall apply from ►
M51 January 1997 ◄.
Article 5
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.1994D0446 — EN — 31.01.1996 — 005.001 — 3
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ANNEX A
Country of origin: …
Name of the establishment of production: …
Approval number of the establishment of production: …Nature of the product:
— dried bones(
1)
— dried bone products (1)
— dried horns(1)
— dried horn products (1)
— dried hooves(1)
— dried hoof products (1)
Derived from healthy animals slaughtered in a slaughterhouse and not intended
to be diverted for direct use in human or animal food.
Stamp of the competent authority supervising the approved establishment of
production.1994D0446 — EN — 31.01.1996 — 005.001 — 4
(1) Delete as appropriate.
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ANNEX B
Declaration by the importer of dried bones and bone products, horns and horn products and
hooves and hoof products excluding meal of these products in order to import these products
intotheCommunity
DECLARATION:
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