What it is
Commission Regulation (EU) No 68/2013 of 16 January 2013 establishes the Catalogue of feed materials, under Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed. The catalogue was recast twice, by Regulation (EU) 2017/1017 and then by Regulation (EU) 2022/1104, which carries the version in force.
How it is built
- Part A — general provisions: naming rules, the analytical constituents that must be declared, thresholds and botanical impurities.
- Part B — glossary of processes: more than seventy defined processes (pressing, extraction, expansion, flaking, toasting, hydrolysis, fermentation…).
- Part C — the list: every feed material has a number (2.18.3 for soybean meal), a name, a description and the constituents to declare, in thirteen chapters (cereal grains, oil seeds, legume seeds, tubers and roots, other seeds and fruits, forages, other plants and algae, milk products, land animal products, fish, minerals, fermentation products, miscellaneous).
What it means for a manufacturer or distributor
Using the catalogue is voluntary, but once a catalogue name is used, its description and declared constituents must be respected. A feed material not listed may be marketed provided it is notified to the EU Feed Materials Register (feedmaterialsregister.eu).
In FeedSourcing
The catalogue lists the regulation’s feed materials with their number, chapter and official name, together with the suppliers offering them.
