Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Animal By-Products (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 24th May 2001.

(2) This Order shall apply in relation to Wales.

Amendment to the Animal By-Products Order 1999

2.  The Animal By-Products Order 1999(2) shall, so far as it is applicable in relation to Wales, be amended as follows:

(a)in article 3, paragraph (1):

(i)the following definitions shall be inserted in the appropriate places:

• ““livestock” means

  (a)

  any creature, including fish, kept for the production of food, wool, skin or fur, and any creature, other than a dog, kept for use in the farming of land; and

  (b)

  any ruminant animal, pig, poultry or equine animal.”;

““used cooking oil” means catering waste consisting of oils and fats from food processing and the by-products of such oils and fats (other than any such oils and fats derived in any way from ruminantbones) where these are collected from food businesses (as such term is defined in Article 2 of Council Directive 93/43/EC on the hygiene of foodstuffs(3));” and

(ii)the definition of “swill” shall be deleted;

(b)in article 7:

(i)the word “or” shall be added after the words “Schedule 2” in paragraph (2)(c)(i) and deleted where it appears at the end of paragraph 2(c)(ii); and

(ii)paragraph (2)(c)(iii) shall be deleted;

(c)in article 9, paragraph (1), the words “swill or” shall be deleted;

(d)For articles 19 to 26 (inclusive of both articles) there shall be substituted the following articles:

“19.—(1) No person shall feed to any livestock or allow any livestock to have access to any catering waste to which this article applies or any feeding stuffs which have been in contact with it.

(2) No person shall bring catering waste to which this article applies onto any premises where any livestock are kept.

(3) This article applies to catering waste (other than used cooking oil) whether processed or unprocessed which:

(a)contains or has been in contact with animal carcases, parts of animal carcases (including blood) or products of animal origin (other than milk or milk products, eggs, rennet, gelatin or melted fat which have been incorporated into another product);or

(b)originates from any premises where any animal carcases, parts of animal carcases or products of animal origin (with the exceptions referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above) are handled or where foodstuffs containing or coming into contact with any of the same are prepared or produced.

20.  No person shall feed to any livestock or allow any livestock to have access to any catering waste imported into Great Britain and originally intended for consumption on the means of transport in which it was imported, or any feedingstuffs which have been in contact with it.”;

(e)in Schedule 1, paragraph 4, the words from “except in the case of premises” to the end of the paragraph shall be deleted;

(f)in Schedule 1, paragraph 14, the words “subject to sub-paragraph (2) below” in sub-paragraph 1 and the whole of sub-paragraph (2) shall be deleted;

(g)in Schedule 2, Part I, paragraph 5 shall be deleted; and

(h)Schedule 5 shall be deleted.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Animal By-Products Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/646, the “principal Order”), so far as it is applicable to Wales, so as to prohibit the feeding to livestock of certain categories of catering waste whether that waste has been processed or is unprocessed. It also removes the possibility of non-mammalian animal by-products being rendered for the production of swill for feeding to pigs or poultry.

This Order has been notified in draft to the European Commission as a technical standard, pursuant to Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L 204, 21.7.98, p.37) laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (as last amended by Directive 98/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, OJ No. L217, 05.08.1998, p.18).

No regulatory appraisal for Wales alone has been prepared in relation to these Regulations but a regulatory impact assessment has been prepared for the whole of Great Britain. Copies can be obtained from the Animal Health (BSE) Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1A Page Street, London SW1P 4PQ.