Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 92/2005 is amended as follows:

1. 1..

   Article 2 is replaced by the following:

   ‘Approval, treatment and use or disposal of Category 2 or 3 material

   Article 2

   1.

   The following processes are approved and may be authorised by the competent authority for the treatment and use or disposal of Category 2 or 3 material:

   (a)

   alkaline hydrolysis process as defined in Annex I;

   (b)

   high pressure high temperature hydrolysis process as defined in Annex II;

   (c)

   high pressure hydrolysis biogas process as defined in Annex III;

   (d)

   biodiesel production process as defined in Annex IV;

   (e)

   Brookes gasification process as defined in Annex V; and

   (f)

   combustion of animal fat in a thermal boiler process as defined in Annex VI.

   The process of thermo-mechanical biofuel production as defined in Annex VII is approved and may be authorised by the competent authority for the treatment and disposal of manure and digestive tract content and Category 3 material.

   2.

   The competent authority may authorise the use of other process parameters, on condition that such parameters provide for an equivalent reduction of risks for public and animal health, for the stages of:

   (a)

   the biodiesel production process as defined in Annex IV, point 1(b)(i); and

   (b)

   the process of combustion of animal fat in a thermal boiler as defined in Annex VI, point 1(c)(i).’;

2. 2..

   in the title and in the first sentence of Article 3, ‘Annexes I to VI’ is replaced by ‘the Annexes’;

3. 3..

   Article 4 is amended as follows:

   1. (a)

      in paragraph 2, the following subparagraph is added:

      ‘However, material resulting from the biodiesel production process as defined in Annex IV shall be combusted.’;

   2. (b)

      in paragraph 3, the following point (d) is added:

      1. (d)

         ‘in the case of material resulting from the biodiesel production process as defined in Annex IV, used for the production of technical products.’;

   3. (c)

      paragraph 5 is deleted;

4. 4..

   the Annexes are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.