Animal By Product Processing Operations – Pet Food

• Published date: 02 July 2019

AP15: Application Form for approval of a Plant involved in

the production of processed Pet Food

Final version Rev3: 20200422

Please note the following:

• In order be approved to as a plant involved in the production of processed pet food,

the applicant 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.

• ‘CN15 – Conditions for approval of a plant involved in the production of processed

petfood’ 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 supporting documentation should

be sent to Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Milk and Meat

Hygiene/ABP/TSE Division, (Animal By-Products 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 1st July 2015

Milk & Meat Hygiene/ABP/TSE Division

Application Form for approval of a Plant involved in the

production of processed Pet Food

Information Note