To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in which year each member state of the EU banned the feeding of animal protein to (a) ruminants and (b) other meat animals. [36690]

An EU-wide ban of the feeding of mammalian protein to ruminants was introduced by Commission Decision 94/381/EC on 27 June 1994. Some Member States introduced national provisions before the Commission Decision came into force. Those which we know about are as follows:Figures for usage by the Northern Ireland compound feed industry are available only from 1993 onwards and are as follows: