Animal By Product Processing Operations - Collection Centre

• Published date: 02 July 2019

AP13: Application for Approval of a Collection Centre

Final version Rev3: 20201104

Please note the following:

• In order be approved to operate a collection centre, 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, 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 25th January 2016

Milk & Meat Hygiene/ABP/TSE Division

Application form for approval as a Collection Centre

Information Note