Commission Directive 1999/61/EC of 18 June 1999 amending the Annexes to Council Directives 79/373/EEC and 96/25/EC (Text with EEA relevance)

• Published date: 26 June 1999
• Subject Matter: Animal feedingstuffs,Approximation of laws
• Official Gazette Publication: Official Journal of the European Communities, L 162, 26 June 1999

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Commission Directive 1999/61/EC of 18 June 1999 amending the Annexes to Council Directives 79/373/EEC and 96/25/EC (Text with EEA relevance)

Official Journal L 162 , 26/06/1999 P. 0067 - 0068

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 1999/61/EC

of 18 June 1999

amending the Annexes to Council Directives 79/373/EEC and 96/25/EC

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 79/373/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the marketing of compound feedingstuffs(1), as last amended by Directive 98/87/EC(2), and in particular Article 10(e) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 96/25/EC of 29 April 1996 on the circulation of feed materials, amending Directives 70/524/EEC, 74/63/EEC, 82/471/EEC and 93/74/EEC and repealing Directive 77/101/EEC(3), as amended by Commission Directive 98/67/EC(4), and in particular Article 11(b) thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Decision 94/381/EC of 27 June 1994 concerning certain protection measures with regard to bovine spongiform encephalopathy and the feeding of mammalian derived protein(5), as last amended by Decision 1999/129/EC(6), bans the feeding to ruminants of protein obtained from mammalian tissue while exempting some products as they are considered not to present a health risk;

(2) Whereas Decision 1999/129/EC extends the list of exempted products to the "hydrolysed proteins with a molecular weight below 10000 daltons derived from animal hides and skins", produced under certain conditions;

(3) Whereas, for practical reasons and for the sake of legal consistency, Commission Decision 1999/420/EC(7) amends accordingly Commission Decision 91/516/EEC(8) establishing a list of ingredients whose use is prohibited in compound feedingstuffs;

(4) Whereas Directives 96/25/EC and 79/373/EEC lay down respectively general and specific rules for the labelling of feed materials and compound feedingstuffs; whereas, to prevent the users of feedingstuffs containing protein derived from certain tissue of mammals from feeding them to ruminants through ignorance of current feedingstuffs and veterinary rules, these Directives foresee an appropriate labelling of such feedingstuffs calling the attention to the prohibition on their use in ruminant feed and including also the list of exempted products; whereas this list should therefore be amended...