Division 1 An EU fertilising product may contain digestate obtained through anaerobic digestion of exclusively one or more of the following input materials:
United Kingdom
- (a)
plants or plant parts grown for the production of biogas. For the purpose of this point, plants include algae and exclude blue-green algae (cyanobacteria);
- (b)
digestion additives which are needed to improve the process performance or the environmental performance of the digestion process provided that:
- (i)
the additive is registered pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006f1, with a dossier containing:
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the information provided for by Annexes VI, VII and VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, and
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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
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- (ii)
the total concentration of all additives does not exceed 5 % of the total input material weight; or
- (i)
- (c)
any material referred to in point (a) that has previously been digested.
Annotations
Footnotes
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In the case of an additive recovered in the European Union, this condition is fulfilled if the additive is the same, within the meaning of point (d)(i) of Article 2(7) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, as a substance registered with a dossier containing the information here indicated, and if information is available to the fertilising product manufacturer within the meaning of point (d)(ii) of Article 2(7) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006.