26.6.1999 Official Journal of the European Communities L 162/69 IT (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 18 June 1999 amending Decision 91/516/EEC establishing a list of ingredients whose use is prohibited in compound feedingstuffs (notified under document number C(1999) 1601) (Text with EEA relevance) (1999/420/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, prohibited in compound feedingstuffs as last amended by Decision 97/582/EC (¢), prohibits the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European use of certain protein derived from mammalian Community, tissue in feedingstuffs for ruminants and should therefore be amended accordingly; Having regard to Council Directive 79/373/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the marketing of compound feeding- 4) Whereas the provisions laid down shall apply stuffs (1), as last amended by Directive 98/87/EC (2), and in without prejudice, to more stringent pl‘OViSiOl’lS particular Article 10(e) thereof, which some Member States may have adopted as permitted in particular by Article 1(2) of Council (1)  Whereas Commission Decision 94/381/EC of 27 Directive 90/667/EEC of 27 November 1990 laying June 1994 concerning certain protection measures down the veterinary rules for the disposal and with regard to bovine spongiform encephalopathy processing of animal waste, for its placing on the and the feeding of mammalian derived protein (%), market and for the prevention of pathogens in as last amended by Commission Decision 99/ feedingstuffs of animal or fish origin and amending 129/EC (%), bans the feeding to ruminants of Directive 90/425/EEC (') protein obtained from mammalian tissue while exempting some products as they are considered () Whereas the measures provided for in this not to present a health risk; Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Feedingstuffs, (2) Whereas Decision 99/129/EC amending Decision 94/381/EC extends the list of exempted products to the ‘hydrolysed proteins with a molecular weight below 10 000 daltons derived from animal hides and skins’, produced unter certain conditions; HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: (3)  Whereas, for practical reasons and for the sake of legal consistency with veterinary law, Commission Decision 91/516/EEC (®) of 9 September 1991 Article 1 establishing a list of ingredients whose use is The Annex to Decision 91/516/EEC is hereby amended g 8} i gfg 624711917?99108 30. 3 in accordance with the Annex hereto. , 27.11.1998, p. 43. () O] L 172, 7.7.1994, p. 23. OJ L 41, 16.2.1999, p. 14. % OJ L 237, 28.8.1997, p. 39. p p () oJL () OJ 281, 9.10.1991, p. 23. 7) L 363, 27.12.1990, p. 51.