Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading 15.16; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, not elsewhere specified or included. (HS code(s): 1518); Municipal waste (HS code(s): 382510)

Draft Commission Regulation (EU) amending Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards requirements for the import of used cooking oil (Text with EEA relevance). Language(s): English. Number of pages: 4+5

The draft on animal health requirements for imports of used cooking oil intended for technical uses (production of renewable fuels and oleochemical products) introduces harmonized EU requirements and replaces current national rules of 27 EU member States.

The main objective of the draft is prevention of entry of used cooking oil into feed for farmed animals within the European Union and thereby to mitigate potential biological hazards in feed.

The draft introduced the following requirements:

·        A consignment of used cooking oil must come from a registered storage or collection plant listed in the EU TRACES system

[https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/tracesnt/directory/listing/establishment/publication/index#!/search];

·        A consignment must be presented at an EU veterinary border control post and be monitored in the European Union until reaches its place of destination after import;

·       A consignment of used cooking oil must be accompanied by a commercial declaration signed by the importers stated that used cooking oil is not intended for feeding farmed animals and that water and solid particles of more than 6 mm, to reach a combined amount of moisture and solid particles of not more than 10% w/w* at the time of dispatch.