# Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 laying down rules on the making available on the market of EU fertilising products and amending Regulations (EC) No 1069/2009 and (EC) No 1107/2009 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 (Text with EEA relevance), Division 1: An EU fertilising product may contain compost obtained through aerobic composting of exclusively one or more of the following input materials:

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

(a) bio-waste within the meaning of Directive 2008/98/EC resulting from separate bio-waste collection at source;
(b) derived products referred to in Article 32 of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 for which the end point in the manufacturing chain has been determined in accordance with the third subparagraph of Article 5(2) of that Regulation;
(c) living or dead organisms or parts thereof, which are unprocessed or processed only by manual, mechanical or gravitational means, by dissolution in water, by flotation, by extraction with water, by steam distillation or by heating solely to remove water, or which are extracted from air by any means, except:
the organic fraction of mixed municipal household waste separated through mechanical, physicochemical, biological and/or manual treatment,
sewage sludge, industrial sludge or dredging sludge, and
animal by-products or derived products falling within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 for which no end point in the manufacturing chain has been determined in accordance with the third subparagraph of Article 5(2) of that Regulation;
(d) composting additives which are necessary to improve the process performance or the environmental performance of the composting process provided that:
(i) the additive is registered pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, with a dossier containing:
the information provided for by Annexes VI, VII and VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, and
a chemical safety report pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 covering the use as a fertilising product,
unless explicitly covered by one of the registration obligation exemptions provided for by Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 or by point 6, 7, 8 or 9 of Annex V to that Regulation, and
(ii) the total concentration of all additives does not exceed 5 % of the total input material weight; or
(e) any material listed in points (a), (b) or (c) which:
(i) has previously been composted or digested, and
(ii) contains no more than 6 mg/kg dry matter of PAH16 .

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1009/annex/II/part/II/division/3/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1009/annex-II/part-II/division-3/division-1
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.