# Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 of 25 February 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption and implementing Council Directive 97/78/EC as regards certain samples and items exempt from veterinary checks at the border under that Directive (Text with EEA relevance), Division CHAPTER III: LOW-CAPACITY INCINERATION AND CO-INCINERATION PLANTS

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

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 the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 or the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012 shall:
(a)only be used for the disposal of:
(i) dead pet animals referred to in Article 8(a)(iii) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009;
(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
(iii) dead individually identified equine animals from holdings not subject to health restrictions in accordance with Article 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 appropriate authority;
(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;
(c)operate in such way that the animal by-products are completely reduced to ash.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/142/annex/III/chapter/III (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-142/annex-III/chapter-III
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