Commission Regulation (EC) No 777/2008 of 4 August 2008 amending Annexes I, V and VII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-08-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural by-product, animal product, derogation from EU law, health control, waste management

5.8.2008

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 777/2008

of 4 August 2008

amending Annexes I, V and VII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of
laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human
the Council

consumption

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

the
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of
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)

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 lays down animal and
public health rules for the collection, transport, storage,
handling, processing and use or disposal of animal by-
products and the placing on the market of such products.

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 contains a
definition of blood meal. In order to clarify that defi­
it is appropriate to specify that it also covers
nition,
products derived from the heat treatment of fractions
of blood in accordance with Chapter II of Annex VII
to that Regulation, and intended for animal consumption
or organic fertilisers.

The specific requirements
for mammalian processed
animal protein are set out in Chapter II of Annex VII
treatment
to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002. The
for
requirements laid down in A(1) of
be
mammalian processed
amended to take account of
the new definition of
blood meal in Annex I to that Regulation.

that Chapter,
should

protein,

animal

(4)

Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 provides that
animal by-products are to be processed on a different site

from the site of collection, unless located in a completely
separate building. It also provides that the processing of
animal by-products originating on the same site in
processing plants linked to a slaughterhouse by way of
system may be permitted under certain
a conveyer
conditions.

to Category 3 processing plants,

the
In order to facilitate the practical application of
in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No
provisions
the
1774/2002,
competent authorities in the Member States should be
permitted to derogate from these provisions and to
allow the introduction of Category 3 material originating
in other premises approved under Regulation (EC) No
the
853/2004 of
Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene
rules for food of animal origin (2), under conditions
aimed at the control of risks to public and animal health.

the European Parliament and of

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with
Standing
Committee of the Food Chain and Animal Health,

opinion

the

the

of

(5)

(6)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annexes I, V and VII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 are
amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 4 August 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 273, 10.10.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 523/2008 (OJ L 153, 12.6.2008,
p. 23).

(2) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55. Corrected version published at OJ
amended by
L 281,

L 226, 25.6.2004, p. 22. Regulation as
Commission Regulation
25.10.2007, p. 8).

(EC) No 1243/2007 (OJ

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ANNEX

Annexes I, V and VII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 are amended as follows:

1.

in Annex I, point 6 is replaced by the following:

‘6. “blood meal” means products derived from the heat treatment of blood or fractions of blood in accordance with

Annex VII, Chapter II, and intended for animal consumption or organic fertilisers;’

2.

in Annex V, Chapter I, point 1(a) is replaced by the following:

‘(a) Processing plants shall not be situated on the same site as slaughterhouses, unless the risks to public and animal
health, resulting from the processing of animal by-products which originate from such slaughterhouses, are
mitigated by compliance with at least the following conditions:

(i) the processing plant must be physically separated from the slaughterhouse; where appropriate by locating the

processing plant in a building that is completely separated from the slaughterhouse;

(ii) the following must be installed and operated:

— a conveyer system which links the processing plant to the slaughterhouse,

— separate entrances, reception bays, equipment and exits for the processing plant and the slaughterhouse;

(iii) measures must be taken to prevent the spreading of risks through the operation of personnel which is

employed in the processing plant and in the slaughterhouse;

(iv) unauthorised persons and animals must not have access to the processing plant.

By way of derogation from points (i) to (iv), in the case of Category 3 processing plants, the competent authority
may authorise other conditions instead of those set out in those points, aimed at mitigating the risks to public and
animal health, including the risks arising from the processing of Category 3 material, which originates from off-site
establishments approved under Regulation (EC) No 853/2004. Member States shall inform the Commission and
the other Member States in the framework of the Committee referred to in Article 33(1) of the use made of this
derogation by their competent authorities.’;

3.

in Annex VII, Chapter II, paragraph A(1), the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:

‘Mammalian processed animal protein must have been submitted to processing method 1. However, porcine blood or
fractions of porcine blood may be submitted instead to any of processing methods 1 to 5 or processing method 7
provided that in the case of processing method 7, a heat
throughout its substance at a minimum
temperature of 80 ° C has been applied.’

treatment