Commission Directive 1999/61/EC of 18 June 1999 amending the Annexes to Council Directives 79/373/EEC and 96/25/EC (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1999-06-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal nutrition, animal product, marketing, veterinary inspection

26. 6. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 162/67

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 1999/61/EC

of 18 June 1999

amending the Annexes to Council Directives 79/373/EEC and 96/25/EC

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 79/373/EEC of 2
April 1979 on the marketing of compound feeding-
stuffs (1), as last amended by Directive 98/87/EC (2), and in
particular Article 10(e) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 96/25/EC of 29 April
1996 on the circulation of
feed materials, amending
Directives 70/524/EEC, 74/63/EEC, 82/471/EEC and 93/
as
74/EEC and repealing Directive 77/101/EEC (3),
amended by Commission Directive 98/67/EC (4), and in
particular Article 11(b) thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Decision 94/381/EC of 27
June 1994 concerning certain protection measures
with regard to bovine spongiform encephalopathy
and the feeding of mammalian derived protein (5),
as last amended by Decision 1999/129/EC (6), bans
the feeding to ruminants of protein obtained from
mammalian tissue while exempting some products
as they are considered not to present a health risk;

(2) Whereas Decision 1999/129/EC extends the list of
exempted products to the ‘hydrolysed proteins with
a molecular weight below 10 000 daltons derived
from animal hides and skins', produced under
certain conditions;

(3) Whereas, for practical reasons and for the sake of
legal consistency, Commission Decision 1999/
420/EC (7)
accordingly Commission
Decision 91/516/EEC (8) establishing a list of ingre-
dients whose use is prohibited in compound
feedingstuffs;

amends

(4) Whereas Directives 96/25/EC and 79/373/EEC lay
down respectively general and specific rules for the
labelling of feed materials and compound feeding-
stuffs; whereas, to prevent the users of feedingstuffs
containing protein derived from certain tissue of
mammals from feeding them to ruminants through
ignorance of current feedingstuffs and veterinary

(1) OJ L 86, 6.4.1979, p. 30.
(2) OJ L 318, 27.11.1998, p. 43.
(3) OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 35.
(4) OJ L 261, 24.9.1998, p. 10.
(5) OJ L 172, 7.7.1994, p. 23.
(6) OJ L 41, 16.2.1999, p. 14.
(7) See page 69 of this Official Journal.
(8) OJ L 281, 9.10.1991, p. 23.

rules, these Directives foresee an appropriate label-
ling of such feedingstuffs calling the attention to
the prohibition on their use in ruminant feed and
including also the list of exempted products;
whereas this list should therefore be amended
accordingly;

(5) Whereas

in this
the measures provided for
Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the
Standing Committee on Feedingstuffs,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Point 7.1, second paragraph, third indent in Part A of the
replaced by the
Annex to Directive 79/373/EEC is
following text:

‘ hydrolysed proteins with a molecular weight

below 10 000 daltons which have been:

(i) derived from hides and skins obtained from
animals which have been slaughtered in a
slaughterhouse and have undergone an ante
mortem inspection by an official veterinarian
in accordance with Chapter VI of Annex I of
Directive 64/433/EEC and passed fit, as a
result of such inspection, for slaughter for the
purpose of that Directive;

and

(ii) produced by a production process which
involves appropriate measures to minimise
contamination of hides and skins, preparation
of the hides and skins by brining, liming and
intensive washing followed by exposure of
the material to a pH of (cid:1) 11 for (cid:1) 3 hours
at temperature (cid:1) 80 °C and followed by heat
treatment at (cid:1) 140 °C for 30 minutes at
(cid:1) 3,6 bar or a by an equivalent production
process approved by the Commission after
consultation of
the appropriate Scientific
Committee;

and

(iii) come from establishments which carry out an

own checks program (HACCP);'

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Article 2

Article 3

Point 1, second paragraph, third indent in Part A chapter
VIII of the Annex to Directive 96/25/EC is replaced by
the following text:

‘ hydrolysed proteins with a molecular weight

below 10 000 daltons which have been:

(i) derived from hides and skins obtained from
animals which have been slaughtered in a
slaughterhouse and have undergone an ante
mortem inspection by an official veterinarian
in accordance with Chapter VI of Annex I of
Directive 64/433/EEC and passed fit, as a
result of such inspection, for slaughter for the
purpose of that Directive;
and

(ii) produced by a production process which
involves appropriate measures to minimise
contamination of hides and skins, preparation
of the hides and skins by brining, liming and
intensive washing followed by exposure of
the material to a pH of (cid:1) 11 for (cid:1) 3 hours
at temperature (cid:1) 80 °C and followed by heat
treatment at (cid:1) 140 °C for 30 minutes at
(cid:1) 3,6 bar or a by an equivalent production
process approved by the Commission after
the appropriate Scientific
consultation of
Committee;
and

(iii) come from establishments which carry out an

own checks program (HACCP);'

1. Member States shall bring into force not later than
31 October 1999 the laws, regulations and administrative
provisions necessary to comply with the provisions of this
Directive. They shall immediately inform the Commis-
sion thereof.

When Member States adopt these provisions, they shall
contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompa-
nied by such reference on the occasion of their official
publication. The methods of making such reference shall
be laid down by the Member States.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commis-
sion the text of the main provisions of domestic law
which they adopt in the field governed by this Directive.

Article 4

This Directive shall enter into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

Article 5

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission