{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1069/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1069/article-20.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/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Authorisation of alternative methods",
  "text": "1. The procedure for authorisation of an alternative method of use or disposal of animal by-products or derived products may be initiated either by an appropriate authority or by an interested party, which may represent several interested parties.\n2. Interested parties shall send their applications to the competent authority of the constituent nation where they intend to use the alternative method.\nThe competent authority shall evaluate, within a period of two months following receipt of a complete application, whether the application complies with the standard format for applications referred to in paragraph 10.\n3. The competent authority shall communicate the applications of the ... interested parties, together with a report on its evaluation to the appropriate authority.\n4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n5. The appropriate authority shall assess whether the method submitted by an interested party or any other method which the appropriate authority considers to be appropriate for authorisation ensures that risks to public or animal health are:\na) controlled in a manner which prevents their proliferation before disposal in accordance with this Regulation or the implementing measures thereof; or\nb) reduced to a degree which is at least equivalent, for the relevant category of animal by-products, to the processing methods laid down pursuant to point (b) of the first subparagraph of Article 15(1),\nand, taking these matters into account, may, by regulations, authorise an alternative method of use or disposal of animal by-products or derived products.\n...\n6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n10. The appropriate authority must make available or publish a standard format for applications for alternative methods, in such manner as appears to the appropriate authority to be appropriate, from time to time.\n11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(12)(a) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(12)(b) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(12)(c)(i) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(12)(c)(ii) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 20(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(12)(d) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(12)(e)(i) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(5) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(12)(e)(ii) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Art. 20(6)-(9) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(12)(f) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Art. 20(10) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(12)(g) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Art. 20(11) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(12)(h) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1069/article/20",
    "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."
}