Legislation, Regulations and Standards

Head of Fertiliser, Jo Gilbertson brings together the CBAM essentials; what’s changing, why it matters, and how AIC will support members through the transition.

The FSA’s Scientific Advisory Committees (SACs) gather scientific information and evaluate its relevance. Of particular interest to the AIC Feed Sector is the Advisory Committee on Animal Feedingstuffs (ACAF).

The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc) Regulations 2024 set out the controls on the marketing, manufacture, distribution, possession, and administration of veterinary medicines and medicated feed. Under the Windsor Framework, EU law on veterinary medicines and medicated feed applies in respect of Northern Ireland. Aspects of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 still apply in NI to complement and enact certain aspects of the EU law.

Information on a revised fertiliser regulation encompassing mineral fertilisers, as well as digestates, composts and other circular economy products

UK REACH is the government’s regulatory tool for achieving the UK’s high levels of environmental protection, ensuring that companies which put chemicals on the market understand and manage the risks they might pose.

The agri-supply industry and farming unions are committed to delivering substantial ammonia emissions reductions from fertilisers

Guidance on the Control of Poisons and Explosives Precursors Regulations 2023

The TSE Regulation and the Animal By-Product (ABP) Regulations controls the use of animal proteins in feed for food-producing animals. Defra/ the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) have produced detailed guidance notes on both the TSE and ABP Regulations. Amendments to the EU legislation permitting the feeding of pig-processed animal protein to poultry and poultry-processed animal protein to pigs, along with ruminant gelatine, collagen, and protein derived from insects to pigs and poultry apply in Northern Ireland but not in Great Britain.

AIC is closely involved with the UK Government initiative on insect biomass and is engaged in order to express the feed industry views.

Whilst there is no requirement to implement this regulation, which came into force on 21 April 2021, in Great Britain, there are some legislative changes that the Government have made in order to enable ongoing trade with the EU as a Third Country. This includes the requirement that all terrestrial diseases listed under the EU Animal Health Regulation are notifiable in third countries exporting live animals to the EU.

Please note that the guidance listed applies to England. However, and where appropriate, there are links to the controls applying to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales in these different sets of guidance documents.

The purpose of this Regulation is to ensure a high level of protection of human health and the environment as well as the free movement of substances, mixtures and articles within scope of the controls.

The Environmental Permitting Regulations (England and Wales) were amended in 2018 to implement the requirements of the ‘Medium Combustion Plant’ (MCP) Directive and additional controls on ‘Specified Generators’.

In July 2020, Defra and the Devolved Administrations issued a joint Circular Economy Package policy statement confirming the UK’s commitment to a more circular economy which will see the UK keeping resources in use as long as possible, extracting maximum value from them, minimizing waste and promoting resource efficiency.