Division CHAPTER III LOW-CAPACITY INCINERATION AND CO-INCINERATION PLANTS

Incineration and co-incineration plants treating only animal by-products and derived products with a maximum capacity of less than 50 kg of animal by-products per hour or per batch (low-capacity plants) and which are not required to have a permit to operate in accordance with F1the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 or the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012 shall:

1. (a)

   F2only be used for the disposal of:

   1. (i)

      dead pet animals referred to in Article 8(a)(iii) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009;

   2. (ii)

      Category 1 materials referred to in Article 8(b), (e) and (f), Category 2 materials referred to in Article 9 or Category 3 materials referred to in Article 10 of that Regulation; and

   3. (iii)

      dead individually identified equine animals from holdings not subject to health restrictions in accordance with F3Article 4(5)(a) and (b) of Directive 2009/156/EC or located in a part of a territory which is not considered to be free of African horse sickness in accordance with Article 5(2) of Directive 2009/156/EC, reading that Article as if for the reference to “Member State” there were substituted a reference to “country”, if authorised by the F4appropriate authority;

2. (b)

   when Category 1 materials referred to in Article 8(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 are introduced into the low-capacity plant, be equipped with an auxiliary burner;

3. (c)

   operate in such way that the animal by-products are completely reduced to ash.