Commission regulation on animal by-products being drafted

The Commission has drawn up a preliminary draft law that would lay down technical details for rules established in Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 on animal by-products. The Commission has started work on such implementing measures in order to have them ready for the date of application of the parent Regulation on animal by-products, which is the 4 March 2011. The parent Regulation on animal by-products was published in the Official Journal on 14/11/09 and entered into force on 04/12/09.

Regulation 1069/2009 can be found here:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:300:0001:0033:EN:PDF