National guides to good practice

1. Where necessary, competent authorities shall encourage the development, dissemination and voluntary use of national guides to good practice in particular for the application of HACCP principles as referred to in Article 29. Operators may use such guides on a voluntary basis.

2. The competent authority shall assess national guides to ensure that:

(a) they have been developed in consultation with representatives of parties whose interests may be substantially affected, and have been disseminated by sectors of operators; and

(b) their contents are practicable for the sectors to which they refer.

CHAPTER II

Placing on the market

Section 1

Animal by-products and derived products for feeding to farmed animals excluding fur animals

Article 31

Placing on the market

1. Animal by-products and derived products destined for feeding to farmed animals, excluding fur animals, may only be placed on the market provided:

(a) they are or they are derived from Category 3 material other than material referred to in Article 10(n), (o) and (p);

(b) they have been collected or processed, as applicable, in accordance with the conditions for pressure sterilisation or other conditions to prevent risks arising to public and animal health in accordance with measures adopted pursuant to Article 15 and any measures which have been laid down in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article; and

(c) they come from approved or registered establishments or plants, as applicable for the animal by-product or derived product concerned.

2. Measures for the implementation of this Article may be laid down relating to the public and animal health conditions for the collection, processing and treatment of animal by-products and derived products referred to in paragraph 1.

Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 52(4).

Section 2

Organic fertilisers and soil improvers

Article 32

Placing on the market and use

1. Organic fertilisers and soil improvers may be placed on the market and used provided:

(a) they are derived from Category 2 or Category 3 material;

(b) they have been produced in accordance with the conditions for pressure sterilisation or with other conditions to prevent risks arising to public and animal health, in accordance with the requirements laid down pursuant to Article 15 and any measures which have been laid down in accordance with paragraph 3 of this Article;