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budgetary rigour and always will, but it considers that in 
order to cater for exceptional or emergency situations 
which could endanger human, animal or plant health, one 
should not lay down prior budgetary restrictions. The 
Committee therefore proposes deletion of the words 'and 
within the limits of appropriations available for that 
purpose in the Community budget'. 
4.2. Article 1 
— Insertion of Article 19c 
4.2.1. Paragraph 1 
The words 'or are not endemic' or 'or have been eradicated 
or are in the process of being eradicated in the Member 
State' should be inserted in the third line, after the words 
'not known to occur'. 
4.2.2. Paragraph 2 — first indent 
The Committee feels that the reference to 'growing 
medium' should appear in the first indent rather than (as at 
present) in the second. It would also be preferable to 
expand it to read 'soil or other growing • medium'. 
'Wrapping and packaging material' should also be 
mentioned. 
In its opinion of 20 December 1989 (!), the Committee 
reserved its right to give an additional opinion after it had 
examined other draft instruments referred to in this 
proposal by the Commission. One of these instruments is 
COM(89) 492 final on health rules for products of animal 
origin. The latter contains a chapter giving detailed 
requirements for the construction of establishments and 
cold stores. These rules are designed to keep the finished 
product in a sound state bacteriologically. A number 
therefore do not apply for producing fat for further refining 
since the refining process sterilizes the fat. On the other 
(!) OJ No C 62, 12. 3. 1990, p. 25. 4.2.3. Paragraph 2 — second indent 
By the same token, the Committee considers that in the 
interests of clarity mention should be made of 'containers 
and other transportation material'. 
4.3. Article 1 
— Insertion of Article 19d (2) 
The Committee suggests that the second sentence be 
amended to read as follows: 'For the purposes of this 
provision, inadequate examinations or inspections, or 
failure to carry them out when they are required, may, in 
the absence of proof to the contrary, be taken to indicate 
presumption of negligence.' This is less stark than the 
present wording. 
Done at Brussels, 25 April 1990. 
The Chairman 
of the Economic and Social Committee 
Alberto MASPRONE 
hand, it is essential that the fat be kept clean bacteriologi­
cally after refining, refining being treatment by steam and/ 
or vacuum. 
This could best be achieved by adding a Chapter III, as 
follows: 
'Requirements for the preparation of melted animal fat, 
greaves and by-products for further refining for human 
consumption 
1. Centres for the collection of raw materials and further 
transport to processing establishments shall satisfy the 
general requirements: 1, 2 (a), (g) and (h), 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Opinion on the proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) laying down health rules for the 
production and placing on the market of melted animal fat, greaves and by-products of rendering 
for human consumption 
(90/C 168/07) 
On 27 February 1990 the Economic and Social Committee, acting under the third paragraph of 
Article 20 of its Rules of Procedure, decided to draw up an additional opinion on the 
abovementioned proposal. 
The Section for Agriculture and Fisheries, which was responsible for preparing the Committee's 
work on the subject, adopted its opinion on 5 April 1990. The rapporteur was Mr Gardner. 
At its 276th plenary session (meeting of 25 April 1990) the Economic and Social Committee 
adopted unanimously the following additional opinion: 
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and 10 as laid down in Chapter I of the Annex to Council 
Regulation (EEC) No ... (products of animal origin) and 
shall be provided with a cold store to store raw materials at 
an internal temperature of 7°C or less, unless the raw 
materials are collected and rendered within the time limits 
laid down in Chapter II. 
2. The processing system should be self-contained 
where it is part of an establishment having at least: 
(a) a cold store, unless the raw materials are collected and 
rendered within the time limits laid down in point 3 of 
Chapter II; 
(b) a separate receiving room or place for raw materials; 
(c) an installation to facilitate the visual inspection of raw 
materials; 
(d) if appropriate, an installation to crush raw materials; 
(e) equipment for the rendering of raw materials by heat or 
pressure or other appropriate method; 
(f) dedicated tanks in which the fat can be kept in liquid 
state for despatch by tankers; 
(g) watertight containers for the disposal of raw materials, 
not fit for human consumption. 
3. During refining, the fat must be heated to a sterilizing 
temperature and time and thereafter kept in conditions 
which avoid recontamination.' 
Changes in Dutch text 
Aside from this, the main point of this additional opinion, 
the Committee would also draw attention to the following 
problems with the Dutch translation of the Commission 
proposal. 
(a) Articles 2 (2) (b): 'Definition of melted animal fats' 
The English definitions 'rendered' and 'melted' cannot 
be clearly translated into Dutch by 'gesmolten'. (b) Article 2 (2) (c): 'premier jus' 
The Dutch translation of 'caul' is not 'damvlies' but 
'darmet'; fat obtained in this way is called 'netvet'. 
(c) Annex, Chapter I: 'Internal temperature of cold stores' 
Although various texts including the French and Dutch 
versions refer to a storage temperature ('opslag 
temperatur' in Dutch) the English version refers to 
'internal temperature'. 
(d) Annex, Chapter 1, point 2 (b) and (h): separate rooms 
or place for the reception of raw materials and the 
dispatch of final products 
The English text refers to 'a room or a place'. The Dutch 
version ('ruimte') is incomplete. 
(e) Annex, Chapter II, point 3 (c) 
In the second paragraph of (c), 'refrigerated' is 
translated as 'frozen' in the Dutch text; the correct 
translation is 'gekoeld'. 
(f) Annex, Chapter II, point 5 
Another mistranslation; according to the present Dutch 
text extraneous matters must be removed, but not meat 
unfit for human consumption! 
(g) Annex, Chapter II, point 7 
Incorrect Dutch translation: replace 'de betrokken 
vetten' by 'de vetten voor raffinage'. 
Done at Brussels, 25 April 1990. 
The Chairman 
of the Economic and Social Committee 
Alberto MASPRONE