We are also pleased that the difficult issue of catering waste has finally been resolved.

The big issue at conciliation was that of catering waste and there we had two national problems.

I should also like to address the extremely controversial issue of recycled catering waste.

It is important that catering waste is included in these proposals.

Amendments Nos 7 and 8 concern the handling of catering waste.

Catering waste does not include 'former foodstuffs' from retailers or food manufacturers.

After about 6-8 weeks, catering waste including compostable packaging can become compost.

I do not understand the position of some people who are saying that meat and bone meal can be fed but catering waste cannot.

It is difficult to guarantee safe and risk-free handling of catering waste.

We cannot accept the proposal to allow the continuation of swill-feeding using catering waste.

I understand the Council's position in seeking to prohibit catering waste in animal feed.

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The treatment of catering waste must, of course, comply with appropriately high sterilisation standards.

In Germany, catering waste is fed to fattening pigs under the strictest of rules.

I would like to look at the very wide definition of catering waste in the annexes and in Amendments 22 to 25.

For this reason it is especially important that all such untreated catering waste which is transported into our countries should be eliminated.

Catering waste is waste food from restaurants, catering facilities and kitchens.

Former foodstuffs do not include catering waste from restaurants, catering facilities and kitchens.

We know that catering waste is a very serious channel of infection for both swine fever and foot and mouth disease.

As an exception, the production of feed from catering waste could be permitted if it has been properly sterilised in an officially authorised plant.

There is no evidence of any epizootic disease having occurred in our country through the feeding of treated catering waste to livestock.

In the UK catering waste is banned.

Catering waste which contains animal by-products includes:

International catering waste is waste food from aircraft and ships that have called at airports or ports outside the European Union.

This includes used cooking oil from restaurants, catering facilities and kitchens which is classed as catering waste.