Animal By Product Processing Operations – Organic Fertiliser-Soil Improver Plant

• Published date: 02 July 2019

AP06: Application form for registering organic fertiliser/soil improver

(OF/SI) Plants (handling, mixing, blending, packaging and

retailing)

Final Version Rev2: 2020 0707

Please note the following:

• A plant involved in Organic Fertiliser and Soil Improver (OF/SI) handling (which

includes blending and packaging), mixing or retailing of OF/SI in >50 kg bags or in

bulk, 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.

• ‘CN06 - Conditions for registered organic fertiliser/soil improver (OF/SI) plants

(Handling, mixing, blending, packaging and retailing)’ 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 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 23rd May 2016

Milk & Meat Hygiene/ABP/TSE Division

Application form for registering Organic Fertiliser/Soil

Improver (OF/SI) Plants (handling, mixing, blending,

packaging and retailing)

Information Note