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Harald Niemann

Director

STN – Servicegesellschaft Tierische Nebenprodukte mbH, Bonn

2 June 2017

The Rendering Industry in

Germany – an Overview

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Structure of the German Animal By-products Association

Verband der Verarbeitungsbetriebe Tierischer Nebenprodukte e.V. (VVTN)

STN - Servicegesellschaft

Tierische Nebenprodukte mbH

• distribution of information and advice for members

• events (Annual General Meeting)

• membership in associations, organizations

• international co-operation

• contribution in working parties

• contact to reasearch und education

• establishing of committees for specific issues

Advocacy

• comments to draft legislation on federal and

state level

• providing information to parliamentarians on

federal and state level

• information events for parliamentarians

association

itself

sole

shareholder of

Ltd. Company

20 Companies

18 cat. 1 lines

3 cat. 2 lines

30 cat. 3 lines

5 fat melting plants (food)

> 3 Mio. to animal by-products

~ 750 Mio. EUR turnover p.a.

2.395 employees

(2016)


What does VVTN cover?

Processing of animal by-products

into proteins and fats by heat

treatment and extraction of hides

VVTN:

87,5 % of companies

100 % cat. 1 plants

100 % cat. 2 plants

86 % cat. 3 plants

Not covered:

e.g.:

• bed feathers

• brushes

• in-vitro-diagnostics

• pharmaceutical products

• gelatine

• wet petfood


Raw material 2016 (tons)

0

200000

400000

600000

800000

1000000

1200000

1400000

1600000

1800000

2000000

Cat. 1 Cat. 2 Cat. 3 Food

Fallen stock

Slaughter by-products


2016 Proteins (tons)

0

50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

300000

350000

400000

450000


Incineration

Fertilizer

Feed

Food


2016 – Fats (tons)

0

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

160000


Incineration

Combustion

Feed

Oleochemical

Bio diesel

Food


Feed materials (tons)

0

50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

300000

350000

Protein cat. 3 Greaves Fat cat. 3 Lard, tallow

Fur animals

Pets

Aquaculture

Farm animals


Organization in Germany

Category 1 + Category 2

= legal arrangements by German federal and state law

Category 3 and food

= no administrative restrictions applicable,

hygienic rules only

---------------------------------

→ Consideration of cat. 1 and 2 disposal schemes


Organization in Germany – Federal law (cat. 1 + 2)

Administration

transfers duties from EU animal by-

products regulations (1069/2009 +

142/2011) to federal states (Länder)

Additional hygienic provisions to EU law:

e.g.:

• duty to notify renderer about collection

of ABP (farmers with regard to fallen

stock!)

• duty for district(!) to collect and process

ABP

• duty for owner of ABP to hand it over to

district and

• protect ABP against weather conditions

during storage (owner)

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Organization in Germany– State law (cat. 1 and 2)

• determines which renderer has to

pick up the material in which

districts (catchment area =

monopoly)

• arranges who has to bear costs of

rendering

• determines the competent

authorities for supervison of

collection, processing and

marketing of ABP, the rendering

plant and its approval

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Lower Saxony

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Organization in Germany (cat. 1 and 2) - District level

Lower Saxony (example): 45 districts

Each (rural or urban) district has to

decide how to deal with the duty to

collect and process ABPs.

3 options:

(1) doing itself (plant and equipment

needed!)

(2) Special Purpose Association

(Joint Authority) with other districts

and doing themselves (plant and

equipment needed!)

(3) assignment to private renderers

(plant and equipment available)


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Lower Saxony: 45 districts

Each (rural or urban) district has to

decide how to deal with the duty to

collect and process ABPs.

3 options:


needed!)

(2) Special Purpose Association

(Joint Authority) with other districts


equipment needed!)



Number of rendering lines in

Germany according to the options

left:

0

7 = public!

14 = private



3 options:


needed!)

(2) co-operation with other districts


equipment needed!)



How to select a private renderer?

District organizes a public invitation to

tender and asks the applicants for

rendering services for a certain length

of time. Criteria a.o.: rendering plant?

commitment (e.g. technical details, fleet of

vehicles, staff)

price for the services!

Legal basis: - Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement

- Directive 2014/23/EU on the award of

concession contracts

and national implementation law



Number of rendering lines in

Germany according to the options:

7 public! (Special Purpose Associations)

14 private

One association!

Amazing?

Joint authorities (Districts = clients)

+

Private renderers (contractors)

___________________________

= member of one trade association

(All are colleagues.)

It works!


Organization in Germany (cat. 1 and 2) – Cost contribution

Fallen stock

idea (born last century):

no incentives for farmers to bury dead

animals or to throw it away illegally

(outside rendering plants)

public support

varies from federal state to federal

state

see following examples:

ABP (from slaughter houses)

Slaughter houses have to pay.


Organization in Germany (cat. 1 and 2)

Cost contribution fallen stock


Land

(Federal state)

Examples

Land

(Federal state)

District Animal Disease

Fund

Farmer*)

(owner of the

animal)

Baden-

Wurttemberg 100 % *)

Bavaria 33,3 % 33,3 % 33,3 % *)

Lower Saxony 40 % 60 % *)

Mecklenburg-

Vorpommern 100 %

Saxony-Anhalt 25 % 25 % 50 %

Thuringia 33,3 % 66,6 %

*) Note: State aid of 100 % of the removal admissible. But farmer has to pay at least 25%

of the costs of the destruction (processing and incineration).

= Regulation (EU) No. 702/2014 declaring certain categories of aid in the agricultural and forestry

sectors and in rural areas compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of

the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

= European Union Guidelines for State aid in the agricultural and forestry sectors and in rural areas

2014 to 2020

All German contribution schemes in line with above mentioned EU legislation

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Land

(Federal state)

Examples

Land

(Federal state)

District Animal Disease

Fund

Farmer*)

(owner of the

animal)

Baden-

Wurttemberg 100 % *)

Bavaria 33,3 % 33,3 % 33,3 % *)

Lower Saxony 40 % 60 % *)

Mecklenburg-

Vorpommern 100 %

Saxony-Anhalt 25 % 25 % 50 %

Thuringia 33,3 % 66,6 %

*) Note: State aid of 100 % of the removal admissible. But farmer has to pay at least 25%

of the costs of the destruction (processing and incineration).

= Regulation (EU) No. 702/2014 declaring certain categories of aid in the agricultural and forestry

sectors and in rural areas compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of

the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

= European Union Guidelines for State aid in the agricultural and forestry sectors and in rural areas

2014 to 2020

All German contribution schemes in line with above mentioned EU legislation

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Animal Disease Fund („Tierseuchenkasse“)

• solidarity fund

• legally supervised by the ministries of the federal states

• not funded with public money, only farmers‘ contribution

(Farmers notify their livestock to the fund and contribute accordingly.)

Task (a.o.): in case of animal diseases compensation for

• value of dead animals

• culling and disposal costs

• costs of decontamination

(not in every federal state)


Thank you for your attention!

Harald Niemann

For further information click on:

www.stn-vvtn.de (German language only)

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