{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1069/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1069/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/1069",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 (Animal by-products Regulation)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1069",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Implementing measures",
  "text": "1. The appropriate authority may, by regulations, lay down measures for the implementation of this Section relating to the following matters:\n(a) special conditions for the on-board handling and the disposal of material derived from on-board evisceration of fish showing signs of disease, including parasites, that are communicable to humans;\n(b) processing methods for animal by-products other than pressure sterilisation, in particular as regards the parameters to be applied for those processing methods, in particular the time, temperature, pressure and size of particles;\n(c) parameters for the transformation of animal by-products, including catering waste, into biogas or compost;\n(d) conditions for the incineration and co-incineration of animal by-products and derived products;\n(e) conditions for the combustion of animal by-products and derived products;\n(f) conditions for the generation and handling of animal by-products referred to in Article 10(c);\n(g) ensilage of material originating from aquatic animals;\n(h) permanent marking of animal by-products;\n(i) the application to land of certain animal by-products, organic fertilisers and soil improvers;\n(j) the use of certain animal by-products for feeding to farmed animals; and\n(k) the level of risk to public or animal health with respect to certain material which is considered as unacceptable as referred to in Article 14(d).\n...\n2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(7)(a) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(7)(b) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 15(2) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 12(11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1069/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:08.628948+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}