The development, dissemination and use of both national and Community guides to good practice must be encouraged. However, these guides may be used on a voluntary basis by the feed business operators.

Guidelines for the development of Community guides to good practice have been prepared together with the Member States.

On 29 January 2007, the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health assessed the following Community guides to good practice . These Community guides to good practice were developed in accordance with Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 January 2005 laying down requirements for feed hygiene, their contents are practicable throughout the Community for the sector to which they refer and are suitable as guides for compliance with the hygiene and HACCP requirements of that Regulation. The Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health shall periodically review these guides in cooperation with the stakeholders and other interested parties.

Community guide to good practice for the EU industrial compound feed and premixtures manufacturing sector for food-producing animals - European Feed Manufacturers Guide Version 1.1 - November 2009
FEFAC – Fédération Européenne des Fabricants d'Aliments Composés, Europäischer Verband der Mischfutterindustrie, European Feed Manufacturers' Federation. www.fefac.org
Version 1.0, January 2007

Community guide to good practice for feed additive and premixture operators
FAMI-QS – European Association for Feed Additives and Premixtures Quality System. www.fami-qs.org
Version 2, 17 January 2007

Guide to good practice for the manufacture of safe pet foods
FEDIAF – Fédération Européenne de l'Industrie des Aliments pour Animaux Familiers, European Pet Food Industry Federation. www.fediaf.org
Revision 12, March 2010

European Good Hygiene Practices Guide for the collection, storage trading and transport of cereals, oilseeds and protein crops
European cereals, rice, feedstuffs, oilseeds, olive oil, oils and fats and agrosupply trade (COCERAL)/ European Agri-cooperatives (COGECA) www.coceral.com, www.copa-cogeca.be

European Guide to good practice for the industrial manufacture of safe feed materials
The "Association des Amidonniers et Féculiers" (AAF) and The EU Oil and Proteinmeal Industry (FEDIOL) within the framework of the European Feed Ingredients Platform (EFIP) www.efip-ingredients.org and European Feed Ingredients Safety Certification (EFISC) www.efisc.eu

Draft translations of the European Guide to good practice for the industrial manufacture of safe feed materials for linguistic comments to kris.de-smet@ec.europa.eu until 1 June 2011:

• European Guide to good practice feed materials Version 2 2 June 2010
• Guide 2 2 APPENDIX3- Sector ref doc on starch processing
• Guide 2 2 APPENDIX 4 - Sector ref doc on oil and oilseed processing

A Register for National Guides to Good Practice has been set up by the Commission to make them available to Member States and feed and food business operators.