Health requirements for animal by-products

The Council fully accepts the principle of the Parliament's proposed amendments: that the two acts should take effect as soon as practicable. It believes that the Regulation should apply, and the implementation of the Directive should have to be completed, six months after their entry into force. The common position adopted by the Council with a view to the adoption of the Directive would therefore require Member States to implement the provisions of the Directive by the date of application of the Regulation. There is also a new provision, which makes it clear that Member States can regulate the importation and placing on the market of products for which the Annexes to the Regulation contain no rules. The similar rule in Article 3 of Directive 92/118/EEC is no longer necessary. The common position would restrict its scope to products of animal origin intended for human consumption.�