Animal By Product Processing Operations - Knackery

• Published date: 02 July 2018

AP12: Application form for approval of a Category 2 Intermediate Plant

(Knackery)

Final version Rev 3: 20201104

Please note the following:

• In order be approved as a plant involved in handling Animal By-Products (ABP) or carrying

out intermediate operations (as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No. 142/2011)

following their collection, 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.

• ‘CN12 – Approval of Category 2 Intermediate Animal By-Product Plants Knackeries’ can be

found here or ‘CN13 - Approval of an Independent Collection Centre’ which 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’.

• 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), 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 26th January 2016

Milk & Meat Hygiene/ABP/TSE Division

Application Form for approval of a Category 2 Intermediate Plant

(Knackery)

Information Note