However, highly concentrated feed, such as licking buckets containing minerals, may be used for direct feeding if the composition meets the particular nutritional purpose in respect of the relevant intended use.

The existing legislation on the circulation and use of feed materials and compound feed, which includes pet food, namely Council Directive 79/373/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the circulation of compound feedingstuffs (6), Council Directive 93/74/EEC of 13 September 1993 on feedingstuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes (7) (dietetic feed), Council Directive 96/25/EC of 29 April 1996 on the circulation and use of feed materials (8) and Council Directive 82/471/EEC of 30 June 1982 concerning certain products used in animal nutrition (9) (bio-proteins), needs to be updated ...[+++] and replaced by a single regulation.

Carrying that into another product for lack of another term, I call them “concentrates”, but it's basically animal feed that again is transported all over the place, would there be any thought from you two, or your agency, to put controls on where that feed would go as well, or could go?

Compound feedingstuffs, with the exception of feedingstuffs for fur animals, of feedingstuff for fish and of feedingstuffs for pet animals

Marketing of compound feedingstuffs The Council adopted an amendment to Directive 79/373/EEC on the marketing of compound feedingstuffs.

It was therefore possible, as a result of the loopholes in the system, to sell straight feedingstuffs as raw feed materials not subject to regulations. In some Member States the concept of straight feedingstuffs therefore disappeared, giving way to that of raw feed materials.