ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS – HEALTH PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY

Dr Tim Gumbel, DG SANCO D1

DG ENV 2 June 2009

What are animal by-products?

HIDE: LEATHER,GELATINE

MILK: FEED

HOOVES:FERTILISER

MANURE:FERTILISER

INTESTINES:TENNIS RACKETS

BONES:GLUE

FAT:COS-METICS

Current Community rulesRegulation (EC) No 1774/2002

White Paper on Food Safety (2000)Principles of the Regulation:

Decisions based on scienceGeneral exclusion of materials unfit for human consumption from the feed chainObligation to collect ABPRisk-based categorisation

Disposal obligationsPossibilities to use ABP

Review of the ABP RegulationCommission report in 2005Experience with application

General principles soundAdditional objectives:

Sustainable use of resourcesBio-diversity: feeding of wild animals

COM proposal in June 2008 (COM (2008) 345 final)Agreement at first reading in April 2009, formal adoption pending (July 2009?)

Feeding of wild animalsCurrent rules

Feeding of materials without health risk to wild animals

Wild animals outside the food chainMember States responsibility

Feeding of „high risk“ material to necrophagous birds Feeding stations

New rules (framework)Feeding of „high risk“ material to other speciesDetermination of conditions by COMDerogation from obligation to collect ABP possibleSolutions for extensive farming systems

The way forward

COM implementing measuresConditions for risk-mitigationSpecies-specific solutions (feeding patterns, other circumstances)Consultations with interested partiesClose cooperation between environmental and veterinary services

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!