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Along with the numerous previous contributors to this debate, may I say thank you very much to Mrs Paulsen for the work she has done, but I also hope that we can reach a practicable solution and that we can send out long-term signals from which the feed industry, waste processors and farmers can take their lead.

How can this be consistent with a derogation allowing the use of waste collected from restaurants and hospital kitchens to feed pigs and poultry?

A provision of this kind would cause huge problems in terms of storage, collection and disposal, since the sludge from processing waste water during slaughter would no longer be able to be spread on land, but would have to be incinerated, which would add to the millions of tonnes of animal feed that we have to dispose of.

How closely the safety of our food is linked to the feed eaten by livestock has been demonstrated by recent scandals, from dioxins and waste oil in feed mixes to the manufacture of animal and bone meal, which, as we all know, can be a good source of protein if special manufacturing methods are used.

It is very important to be able to trace the waste derived from cattle feed.

ANNEX I Important measures taken in relation to BSE (a) Community measures (i) export ban on live animals from the UK to the other Member States with the exception of calves under six months under the condition that they are slaughtered before the age of six months (March 1990); (ii) export ban on specified offals (brains, spinal cord, thymus, tonsils, spleen and intestines) from the UK to the other Member States (April 1990); (iii) export of meat from the UK to the other Member States: - from animals under the age of 30 months: no restrictions (first measure 1 March 1990 - latest decision February 1995); - from animals over the age o ...[+++]f 30 months coming from a herd with no case of BSE during the last six years: no restrictions (decisions as above); - from animals over the age of 30 months coming from a herd with a case of BSE during the last six years: to be accompanied by a health certificate stating "fresh deboned bovine meat in the form of muscle from which the adherent tissues, including obvious nervous and lymphatic tissues, have been removed" (decisions as above); (iv) ban in the Community on the feeding of mammalian protein to ruminants (June 1994); (v) tightening of rules on rendering of ruminant waste in order to inactivate the BSE agent (June 1994) (b) UK measures: (i) ban on the feeding of ruminant protein to ruminants (July 1988); (ii) ban on specified bovine offals (SBOs) (November 1989); ( i i i ) strengthening of the specified bovine offals ban (August 1995); (iv) ban on the feeding of mammalian protein to all farm animals (March 1996) (c) Member State level: - import ban on meat- and bone-meal from the United Kingdom (d) Community export ban on bovine animals, bovine meat and meat products, etc., and on mammalian-derived meat- and bone-meal from the UK to other Member States and third countries (March 1996).