Additional Guidance From The Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs
AQ4(04)
ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE FROM THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS, AND FROM THE WELSH ASSEMBLY GOVERNMENT
CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMAL FEED COMPOUNDING, VEGETABLE MATTER DRYING AND PET FOOD MANUFACTURING
- The purpose of this note is to set out Defra and WAG's view that "food"1 in Schedule 1, Section 6.8 of the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000 includes animal feed production, vegetable matter drying and pet food manufacturing.
- This view is shared by the Technical Working Group for the production of the European BAT document for the food industry and the European Commission. That the dictionary definition of "food" does not make a distinction between food for humans and for animals also supports this view
- Part B operators implementing animal feed compounding and vegetable
matter drying and pet food manufacturing processes will become Part
A(1) processes falling under Environment Agency regulation subject to
meeting the following requirements. These are:
- Exceeding thresholds in paragraph (d) of Part A(1) of Schedule 1, Section 6.8 of the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000, as follows:
(d) Treating and processing materials intended for the production of food products from -
(i) animal raw materials (other than milk) at plant with a finished product production capacity of more than 75 tonnes per day;
(ii) vegetable raw materials at plant with a finished product production capacity of more than 300 tonnes per day (average value on a quarterly basis).Or
- Falling below thresholds in paragraph (d) above but processes
covered by paragraph (f) of Part A(1) of Schedule 1, Section 6.8
of the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000, as follows:
(f) Processing, storing or drying by the application of heat of the whole part of any dead animal or any vegetable matter (other than the treatment of effluent so as to permit its discharge into controlled waters or into a sewer unless the treatment involves the drying of any material with a view to its use as animal feedstuff) if -
(i) the processing, storing or drying does not fall within another Section of this Schedule or Part A(2) of this Section and is not an exempt activity; and
(ii) it may result in the release into water if any substance listed in paragraph 13 of Part 2 of this Schedule in a quantity which, in any period of 12 months, is greater than the background quantity by more than the amount specified in relation to the substance in that paragraph. - Defra and WAG advise local authorities to verify relevant production capacities of operators authorised under PG 6/26(96) "animal feed compounding" , PG 6/27(96) "vegetable matter drying" and PG6/24(96) "pet food manufacturing" to ensure these operators are still subject to local authority regulation. If the status of an operator changes from Part B to Part A(1), an application will have to be made to the Environment Agency by no later than either 31 August 2004 or 31 March 2005 depending on which section of the regulations a particular installation falls within.
1
Under Schedule 1, Section 6.8 of the Pollution Prevention and Control
Regulations 2000, "food" includes -
(i) drink;
(ii) articles and substances of no nutritional value which are used for
human consumption; and
(iii) articles and substances used as ingredients in the preparation of
food.
AEQ/Defra
22.03.04
Page published: 30 March 2004