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General Sanitary Registry for Food Businesses and Foods
The Royal Decree 191/2011, issued on February 18, concerning the General Sanitary Registry for Food Businesses and Foods (BOE 8.3.2011), in article 2 lists the establishments and companies that will be subject to entry in the national registry and those that will be registered in the regional registries; and in article 3 it specifies the food products that must be subject to the national registry.
Information on the PROCEDURES is provided, in accordance with articles 6, 7 and 8 of said royal decree, which the food business operators that have their headquarters in Spanish territory, whether or not they have any food establishment, or commercialize in Spain foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses, natural mineral waters or spring waters must follow.
In addition, the Registry includes a SEARCH ENGINE FOR REGISTERED COMPANIES with which one can locate food businesses from any sector of the industry registered in the national registry attached to this Agency. There are other registries for the food industry sector administered by different authorities, covering primary production, of regional nature, or dependent on other Departments with different purposes.
This site also includes a SEARCH ENGINE FOR EU APPROVED SPANISH ESTABLISHMENTS in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 853/2004.
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Registry of Transport Companies
In article 2 of Royal Decree 191/2011, issued on February 18, concerning the General Sanitary Registry for Food businesses and Foods, the activity of transport between the food businesses and establishments subject to registry is included. This is a new inclusion to the Registry regulation, which did not exist prior to this Royal Decree.
National implementation of the General Food and Food Company Health Register
As a summary of the guidelines for the proper functioning of the General Food and Food Company Health Register, the leaflet published on occasion of the Discussion Session held on 21 June, 2011, has been included.
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Plants for removing vertebral column (TSE) and plants for treating meat from fighting bulls
In accordance with these provisions, certain meat processing plants must be specially authorized for said function by following this authorization procedure:
Order dated July 26, 2001, in order to apply annex XI of the Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 22 May 2001, laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. (BOE 27.07.2001)
Royal Decree 260/2002, March 8, 2002, which establishes the sanitary conditions applicable to the production and marketing of meat from fighting bulls. (BOE. 15.03.2002)
Real Decreto 100/2003, de 24 de enero, por el que se modifica el Real Decreto 1911/2000, de 24 de noviembre, por el que se regula la destrucción de los materiales especificados de riesgo en relación con las encefalopatías espongiformes transmisibles
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