Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directives 90/425/EEC and 92/118/EEC as regards health requirements for animal by-products
Date: 2000-10-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal product, consumer protection, health control, product safety, public health

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Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council
Directives 90/425/EEC and 92/118/EEC as regards health requirements for animal by-products

(2001/C 62 E/13)

(Text with EEA relevance)

COM(2000) 573 final (cid:16) 2000/0230(COD)

(Submitted by the Commission on 19 October 2000)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

Directive 89/662/EEC and,
regards pathogens,
Directive 90/425/EEC (2), should therefore be amended,

as

to

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 152(4)(b) thereof,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

In Directive 90/425/EEC, the seventh indent of Section 1 of
Chapter I of Annex A is replaced by the following:

?Regulation (EC) . . ./. . . of the European Parliament and of
the Council laying down the health rules concerning animal
by-products not intended for human consumption (OJ L
. . .).@

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions,

Article 2

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
251 of the Treaty,

Whereas:

(1) The animal and public health conditions for the processing
and disposal of animal waste and for the production,
placing on the market, trade and importation of products
intended for human consumption
of animal origin not
were laid down in numerous Community acts.

(2) The rules contained in those acts have been replaced by
Regulation (EC) . . ./. . . of the European Parliament and of
the Council of . . . laying down the health rules concerning
animal by-products not intended for human consumption.

(3) In order to take account of

those new rules, Council
Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June 1990 concerning
veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable in intra-
Community trade in certain live animals and products
with a view to the completion of the internal market (1)
and Council Directive 92/118/EEC of 17 December 1992
laying down animal health and public health requirements
governing trade 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 92/118/EEC is amended as follows:

1. In Article 2, points (e) and (g) are deleted;

2. In Article 3,

deleted:
consumption@;

in the first indent the following words are
intended for human

?together with gelatins not

3. In Article 10(2), point (b) is replaced by the following:

?(b) unless otherwise specified in Annex II, products must
come from establishments on a Community list to be
drawn up in accordance with the procedure laid down
in Article 18@;

4. Annex I is amended as follows:

(a) Chapters 1, 3 and 4 are deleted;

(b) Chapter 5 is amended as follows:

(i) In the title, the following words are added:

?intended for human consumption@;

(ii) In part A, the following is deleted:

?A. where they are intended for human or animal

consumption@;

(iii) Part B is deleted;

(c) Chapter 6 is amended as follows:

(i) In the title, the following words are added: ?intended

for human consumption@;

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29. Directive as last amended by Directive

(2) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 49. Directive as last amended by Decision

92/118/EEC.

1999/724/EC (OJ L 290, 12.11.1999, p. 32).

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(ii) Part I is amended as follows:

Article 3

C Paragraph (A) is replaced by the following:

?A. as

regards
document or
Directive
requirements of
complied with@;

trade,

certificate provided for
stating

to the production of
in
the
that Directive have been

that

77/99/EEC

C In paragraph (B)1, point (a)

is replaced by the

following:

?(a) the products

fulfil

the

requirements of

Directive 80/215/EEC@;

(d) In Chapter 7, part II is deleted;

Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and
administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive on 1 February 2003 (1). They shall
forthwith
inform the Commission thereof.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
their official publication.
reference on the occasion of
Member States shall determine how such reference is to be
made.

Article 4

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

Article 5

(e) Chapters 8, 10 and 12 to 15 are deleted.

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

(1) This date must correspond to the date of application of the Regu-
lation on animal by-products not intended for human consumption.