PROCESSING PLANTS EFFLUENT TREATMENT

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PROCESSING PLANTS EFFLUENT TREATMENT

• Presented by
• Dave Wyman

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ARTICLE 4.2 each processing establishment
slaughtering aquaculture animals for disease
control purposes .. is authorised by the
competent authority in accordance with Article
5 ARTICLE 5.2 Authorisation shall not be
granted if the activity in question were to lead
to an unacceptable risk of spreading disease to
farms, mollusc farming areas or to wild
stocks ARTICLE 33 Harvesting , introduction
into dispatch centres or purification centres and
further processing shall be carried out under
conditions which prevent the spread of the
pathogen responsible for the spread of the
disease
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• Option 1 Only authorise processors handling
  stock from diseased areas
• baseline option
• processors chose
• covert spread from other processors
• inadequate facilities to cope with major
  outbreak
• Option 2 Authorise all processors and require
  effluent treatment
• level playingfield
• increase costs
• eliminate risk of disease spread from processing

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• Option 3 Risk assess processors authorise
  only where high risk of spread
• risk of spread reduced
• anti competitive cost
• burden targeted where it would bring benefits
• Option 4 No authorised processors
• no additional cost to industry
• does not address the risk of disease spread
  through effluent discharge
• prevents farmer from reducing losses

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Q What should be the main conditions for
authorising processors? Q Are there likely to
be barriers to attracting processors to be
authorised for disease outbreaks? Q Should some
or all processors undergo a process of
authorisation, beyond those involved in
processing from disease-affected areas?