AP09A Application form for conditional approval to treat ABPs in an on-farm Biogas Plant

AP09A: Application form for Conditional Approval to treat Animal

By-Products in an On-Farm Biogas Plant

Final version Rev2: 20200224

Please note the following:

• An on-farm biogas plant transforming ‘own animal by-products’ comply with the European

Communities (Animal By-Products) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 187 of 2014) and in accordance

with Regulation (EC) No. 1069/2009 and Regulation (EU) No. 142/2011.

• ‘Own ABP’ means manure (including litter), colostrum and/or milk derived from a single

epidemiological unit (same herd or flock number) and which is derived from animals on the same

holding as the biogas plant.

• ‘CN9 – Approval and operation of on-farm biogas plant transforming own Animal By-Products

– ‘Type 9’ Biogas Plants can be found here and must be read before completing this application

form.

• All personal data processed by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine will take

place in accordance with the law on Data Protection and will only be for the purposes connected

to the functions of this Department. More information can be found here.

• Please note: The application form must be completed by the ‘operator’. The operator is defined

as ‘the natural or legal persons having an animal by-product or derived product under their actual

control, including carriers, traders and users’.

• Three copies of the completed application form and maps should be sent to: Department of

Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Milk and Meat Hygiene/ABP/TSE Division (Animal By-

Product Section), Grattan House, Grattan Business Centre, Dublin Road, Portlaoise, Co Laois, R32

RY6V.

• Applications that are incomplete, that contain insufficient or unsatisfactory information or that

do not comply with conditions or legislative requirements will be returned to the applicant and a

revised, fully completed application must be re-submitted.

Issued 27th January 2015

Milk & Meat Hygiene/ABP/TSE Division

Application form for conditional approval to treat Animal-

By-Products in an on-Farm Biogas plant

Information Note