2005/14/EC: Commission Decision of 6 January 2005 amending Decision 2003/329/EC as regards the extension of the validity of transitional measures on the heat treatment process for manure under Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2004) 5760)Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2005-01-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural waste, health control, health legislation, organic fertiliser, waste recycling

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 6 January 2005

amending Decision 2003/329/EC as regards the extension of the validity of transitional measures on
the heat treatment process for manure under Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European
Parliament and of the Council

(notified under document number C(2004) 5760)

(Only the French, Dutch, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/14/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of
the
European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 2002
laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not
intended for human consumption (1), and in particular Article
32(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 lays down health rules
concerning animal by-products not intended for human
consumption. In view of the strict nature of those rules,
transitional measures have been granted.

Commission Decision 2003/329/EC of 12 May 2003 on
(EC) No
transitional measures
the
1774/2002 of

under Regulation
the European Parliament and of

(1) OJ L 273, 10.10.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 668/2004 (OJ L 112, 19.4.2004,
p. 1).

regards

the heat

for
Council as
manure (2) allows
the industry time to adjust and
develop alternative heat treatment process for manure
until 31 December 2004.

treatment process

the
The Commission has asked for an opinion of
to enable
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
laying down alternative heat
for
manure. The EFSA opinion is expected in early 2005.
and
EFSA opinion, Member
Pending
operators have asked the Commission to extend the
validity of
the transitional measures provided for in
Decision 2003/329/EC in order to avoid any disruption
of trade.

treatment process

States

the

in Decision
The transitional measures provided for
2003/329/EC should therefore be
a
further period of time to enable the Member States to
authorise operators to continue to apply national rules
for the heat treatment process for manure.

extended for

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(3)

(4)

(5)

(2) OJ L 117, 13.5.2003, p. 51.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 2

Article 1

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the
French Republic,
the Netherlands and the
Republic of Finland.

the Kingdom of

Decision 2003/329/EC is amended as follows:

Done at Brussels, 6 January 2005.

In Article 1, Article 3(2) and Article 5, the date ‘31 December
2004’ is replaced by the date ‘31 December 2005’.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission