ECJ RULES ON MEAT AND BONE MEAL POWER INCINERATION EXPORTS
September 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EXPORTERS of meat and bone meal waste shipping cargoes from the European Union (EU) to non-EU power incinerators do not have to make special declarations to environmental authorities, a European Court of Justice advocate general has recommended.
Juliane Kokott has said this is the case even if the animal waste was contaminated by BSE: "...contamination by risk material, if... incinerated, does not lead to any apparent increased risk to the environment." The case focused in the shipping of 1,111 tonnes of uncontaminated meat-and-bone ...
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