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Through its representativebody, FEFAC, feed manufac-turers consider the EU

legislative framework an essentialelement in meeting the Lisbonobjectives for improved competi-tiveness of the livestock chain while

providing the keys to innovationfor producing better, safer andmore sustainable feeds.

The regulation repeals several existing

EU Directives and combines mandatory

requirements with co-regulation obligations

involving European representatives of feed

business sectors (stakeholders).

Key mandatory requirementsDeclaration of feed materials: Among the

key features, the elimination of the mandatory

percentage declaration of feed materials on

the compound feed label constitutes the

most significant improvement in the protec-

tion of feed industry know-how. For the

sake of transparency, feed manufacturers will

be nevertheless required, without prejudice

under the Directive on the enforcement of

intellectual Property Rights, to provide further

compositional information within a range of+/-15 percent of the value according to the

feed formulation on customers request.

Use of claims: The regulation also

foresees the possibility to make claims for

compound feed and feed materials on the

condition that the claim is objective, prop-

erly substantiated and understandable by

the customer of the feed. In case the latter

is in doubt of the truthfulness of a claim, he

can bring it to the attention of the compe-

tent authority which may either consider it

as misleading, if the claim is not sufficiently

substantiated, or ask the opinion of the EU

Commission which may also request the

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

for its opinion.

Issues subject to co-regulationPending the publication of the regulation

in the Official Journal of the European Union

in September 2009, FEFAC has already

established a to-do list on a number of

issues subject to co-regulation, and in par-

ticular with regard to the development

of a Community Code of Good Practices

for the Labelling of Compound Feed and

Product claims and the development of the

Community Catalogue of Feed Materials.

Community Catalogue of Feed Materials:

This voluntary and non-exhaustive Catalogue

of Feed Materials shall be composed of the

current EU non-exhaustive list of feed mate-

rials as well as the existing list of bio proteins

for which the pre-authorisation procedure is

not required anymore and shall be reviewed

by stakeholders in order to better reflect the

feed formulations used by feed manufactur-

ers throughout the EU.

These draft amendments would there-

fore be subject to the approval of the

Standing Committee on the Food Chain and

Animal Health Section Animal nutrition.Internet register of notified feed materials:

For the sake of transparency, the final text

also foresees a notification procedure of

those feed materials that are placed for the

first time on the market and that are not yet

listed in the Catalogue.

Such notified feed materials shall be first

received by stakeholders and then trans-

ferred to an internet register to be updated

on a regular basis.

Feed chain in action: To this end, EU feed

chain partners decided to adopt a pro-active

approach by establishing a dedicated joint

platform in charge of reviewing and adapting

the current EU list of feed materials on the

basis of the existing 12 categories of feed

materials.

This platform gathers together approxi-

mately 30 EU organisations including the

European Flour Millers Association, FEDIOL,

AAF, COCERAL, FERM and FEFAC. The

platform has already met several times and

aims to accelerate the working process

in order to finalise a first revision of the

Catalogue of Feed Materials. The practi-

cal discussion on the management of the

internet register will take place at a later

stage, once the first version of the revised

Catalogue is almost finalised.

All feed business operators shall comply

with the new labelling rules 12 months after

its entry into application, which is expected

to be in September 2010.

FOCUS:EuropeEuropean feed manufacturers welcome the adoption of new EU regulations

that provide for simpler rules for labelling and marketing of feed whileensuring an adequate flow of information throughout the feed chain.

Grain&feed millinG technoloGy20 | Ju-augus 2009

Europe FOCus

FEFAC President,Mr Pedro Corra

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