Animal By Product Processing Operations – Processing Plants

• Published date: 02 July 2019

AP35: Approval to process Animal by-Products using Brookes Gasification method

Final Version Rev0: 20170308

Please note the following:

 A plant involved in the processing of Animal By-Product using the Brookes Gasification

method must be approved by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) and

hold a valid certificate of authorisation in accordance with Article 24 (1)(a) of Regulation (EC)

No. 1069/2009.

 The 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.

 The submitted application should demonstrate point-by-point compliance with the

requirements of Section 2E, Chapter IV, Annex IV of Regulation (EU) No. 142/2011 in

particular. (Include Annex if necessary).

 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’.

 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 8th March 2017

Milk & Meat Hygiene/ABP/TSE Division

Approval to process Animal by-Products in accordance with

Regulation EC No. 1069/2009 and EU No. 142 of 2011 using Brookes

Gasification method

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