# 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 2: By way of derogation from point 1, a pasteurisation /hygienisation unit shall not be mandatory for biogas plants that transform only:

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

(a)Category 2 material that has been processed in accordance with processing method 1 as set out in Chapter III of Annex IV;
(b)Category 3 material that has been processed in accordance with any of the processing methods 1 to 5 or processing method 7, or in the case of material originating from aquatic animals, any of the processing methods 1 to 7, as set out in Chapter III of Annex IV;
(c)Category 3 material that has undergone pasteurisation/hygienisation in another approved plant;
(d) animal by-products which may be applied to land without processing in accordance with Article 13(f) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 and with this Regulation, if the competent authority does not consider them to present a risk of spreading any serious transmissible disease to humans or animals;
(e)animal by-products which have been subject to the alkaline hydrolysis process set out in point A of Section 2 of Chapter IV of Annex IV;
(f)the following animal by-products, if authorised by the competent authority:
(i)the animal by-products referred to in Article 10(f) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009, which have undergone processing as defined in Article 2(1)(m) of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 at the time when they are destined for purposes other than human consumption;
(ii)the animal by-products referred to in Article 10(g) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009; or
(iii)animal by-products which are transformed into biogas, where the digestion residues are subsequently composted or processed or disposed of in accordance with this Regulation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/142/annex/V/chapter/I/section/1/division/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-142/annex-V/chapter-I/section-1/division-2
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