{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1069/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1069/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Category 1 material",
  "text": "Category 1 material shall comprise the following animal by-products:\n(a)entire bodies and all body parts, including hides and skins, of the following animals:\n(i)animals suspected of being infected by a TSE in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 or in which the presence of a TSE has been officially confirmed;\n(ii)animals killed in the context of TSE eradication measures;\n(iii)animals other than farmed and wild animals, including in particular pet animals, zoo animals and circus animals;\n(iv)animals used in a procedure or procedures defined in Article 3 of Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes , in cases where the competent authority decides that such animals or any of their body parts have the potential to pose serious health risks to humans or to other animals, as a result of that procedure or those procedures without prejudice to Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003;\n(v)wild animals, when suspected of being infected with diseases communicable to humans or animals;\n(b)the following material:\n(i)specified risk material;\n(ii)entire bodies or parts of dead animals containing specified risk material at the time of disposal;\n(c)animal by-products derived from animals which have been submitted to illegal treatment as defined in Article 1(2)(d) of Directive 96/22/EC ... reading that Article as if for references to “Community legislation” there were substituted references to “assimilated law”;\n(d)animal by-products containing residues of other substances and environmental contaminants listed in Group B(3) of Annex I to Directive 96/23/EC, if such residues exceed the permitted level laid down by retained EU law or, in the absence thereof, by other national legislation;\n(e)animal by-products collected during the treatment of waste water required by implementing rules adopted under point (c) of the first paragraph of Article 27:\n(i)from establishments or plants processing Category 1 material; or\n(ii)from other establishments or plants where specified risk material is being removed;\n(f)catering waste from means of transport operating outside the British Islands;\n(g)mixtures of Category 1 material with either Category 2 material or Category 3 material or both.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(c) 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(9)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(c) inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by 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(9)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Art. 8(c) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 86(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Regulation substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by 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(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Art. 8(d) inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by 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(9)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(f) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by 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(9)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 276, 20.10.2010, p. 33 ."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}