1999/420/EC: Commission Decision of 18 June 1999 amending Decision 91/516/EEC establishing a list of ingredients whose use is prohibited in compound feedingstuffs (notified under document number C(1999) 1601) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1999-06-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agro-industry, animal nutrition, animal product, health control

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 June 1999

amending Decision 91/516/EEC establishing a list of ingredients whose use is
prohibited in compound feedingstuffs

(notified under document number C(1999) 1601)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(1999/420/EC)

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,

(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 (3),
as last amended by Commission Decision 99/
129/EC (4), 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 99/129/EC amending Decision
94/381/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 unter certain conditions;

(3) Whereas, for practical reasons and for the sake of
legal consistency with veterinary law, Commission
Decision 91/516/EEC (5) of 9 September 1991
ingredients whose use is
establishing a list of

(1) OJ L 86, 6.4.1979, p. 30.
(2) OJ L 318, 27.11.1998, p. 43.
(3) OJ L 172, 7.7.1994, p. 23.
(4) OJ L 41, 16.2.1999, p. 14.
(5) OJ L 281, 9.10.1991, p. 23.

prohibited in compound feedingstuffs
last
amended by Decision 97/582/EC (6), prohibits the
use of certain protein derived from mammalian
tissue in feedingstuffs for ruminants and should
therefore be amended accordingly;

as

(4) Whereas the provisions laid down shall apply
without prejudice,
to more stringent provisions
which some Member States may have adopted as
permitted in particular by Article 1(2) of Council
Directive 90/667/EEC of 27 November 1990 laying
down the veterinary rules for the disposal and
processing of animal waste, for its placing on the
market and for the prevention of pathogens in
feedingstuffs of animal or fish origin and amending
Directive 90/425/EEC (7);

(5) Whereas

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 91/516/EEC is hereby amended
in accordance with the Annex hereto.

(6) OJ L 237, 28.8.1997, p. 39.
(7) OJ L 363, 27.12.1990, p. 51.

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Article 2

Article 4

The provisions laid down in the Annex shall apply
without prejudice to Decision 94/381/EC and to the
provisions adopted by Member States as permitted by
Article 1(2) of Directive 90/667/EEC.

Article 3

This Decision shall apply with effect from 1 November
1999.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

Point 9, third indent is hereby replaced by the following text:

‘ hydrolysed proteins with a molecular weight below 10 000 daltons which have been:

ANNEX

(i) derived from hides and skins obtained from animals which have been slaughtered in a slaughter-
house and have undergone an ante mortem inspection by an official veterinarian in accordance
with Chapter VI of Annex I to 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 contamina-
tion 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) three 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 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 programme (HACCP).'