Category 3 material shall comprise the following animal by-products:
(a) carcases and parts of animals slaughtered or, in the case of game, bodies or parts of animals killed, and which are fit for human consumption in accordance with Community legislation, but are not intended for human consumption for commercial reasons;
(b) carcases and the following parts originating either from animals that have been slaughtered in a slaughterhouse and were considered fit for slaughter for human consumption following an ante-mortem inspection or bodies and the following parts of animals from game killed for human consumption in accordance with Community legislation:
(i) carcases or bodies and parts of animals which are rejected as unfit for human consumption in accordance with Community legislation, but which did not show any signs of disease communicable to humans or animals;
(ii) heads of poultry;
(iii) hides and skins, including trimmings and splitting thereof, horns and feet, including the phalanges and the carpus and metacarpus bones, tarsus and metatarsus bones, of:
animals, other than ruminants requiring TSE testing, and
ruminants which have been tested with a negative result in accordance with Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;
(iv) pig bristles;
(v) feathers;
(c) animal by-products from poultry and lagomorphs slaughtered on the farm as referred to in...Log in to see the rest ...
Exclusion
This obligation shall not apply to the following animal by-products:
(a) entire bodies or parts of wild animals, other than wild game, which are not suspected of being infected or affected with a disease communicable to humans or animals, except for aquatic animals landed for commercial purposes;
(b) entire bodies or parts of wild game which are not collected after killing, in accordance with good hunting practice, without prejudice to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;
(c) animal by-products from wild game and from wild game meat referred to in Article 1(3)(e) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;
(d) oocytes, embryos and semen destined for breeding purposes;
(e) raw milk, colostrum and products derived therefrom which are obtained, kept, disposed of or used on the farm of origin;
(f) shells from shellfish with the soft tissue and flesh removed;
(g) catering waste, except if it:
(i) originates from means of transport operating internationally;