NR ADYU
AU Fertig,H.
TI [Alteration of rendering and meat hygiene legislation in the course of the BSE/TSE crisis. Validity of decisive legal provisions (1)]
OT Das Tierkorperbeseitigungs- und Fleischhygienerecht im Wandel der BSE-/TSE-Krise. Zur Gultigkeit der massgeblichen Rechtsakte (1).
QU Deutsche tierärztliche Wochenschrift 1998 Dec; 105(12): 475-81
PT journal article
AB The decisive European legal provisions to fight bovine sponfiform encephalopathy in the context of the rendering and meat-hygiene legislation are the Commission Decisions 96/449/EC "on the approval of alternative heat treatment systems for processing animal waste with a view to the inactivation of spongiform encephalopathy agents" and 97/534/EC "on the prohibition of the use of material presenting risks as regards transmissible spongiform encephalopathies". Both decisions are based on Council Directives which do not provide the necessary authorization for these decisions by the Commission. Consequently, both have to be regarded as legally invalid. Furthermore, the legal acts to convert these decisions into German law (Rendering Plants Regulation and Meat-Hygiene Regulation) have to be considered invalid - partly due to formal and partly due to factual reasons. Because of the thus created legal uncertainty the legal provisions in question can only come fully into force after the elimination of this specifically described legal shortcomings or after clarification of the legal situation by the responsible courts.
MH Animal; Cattle; Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform/*prevention & control/transmission; English Abstract; Europe; European Union; Food Handling; Food-Processing Industry/*legislation & jurisprudence/standards; Guidelines; Human; Hygiene/*legislation & jurisprudence; Meat/*standards/virology; Meat-Packing Industry/*legislation & jurisprudence/standards; Prion Diseases/*prevention & control/transmission; Quality Assurance, Health Care
SP deutsch
PO Deutschland