Animal By Product Processing Operations - Biogas

• Published date: 01 July 2019

AP09: 1st Stage Application form – On-Farm Biogas Plant

Final version Rev3: 20200226

Please note the following:

• In order to build an on-farm biogas plant transforming ‘own animal by-products’

(Type 9 Biogas Plants) an operator must 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 (DAFM), Milk and Meat Hygiene/ABP/TSE

Division, (Animal By-Products), 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 28th November 2014

Milk & Meat Hygiene/ABP/TSE Division

First Stage Application Form On-Farm Biogas Plant

Information Note