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Paragraph 3 I1

United Kingdom

For goods under quota number 05.2201—

(a)

the goods must be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by one of the responsible authorities listed in paragraph (b) which is the responsible authority for the goods concerned;

(b)

the responsible authorities are—

F1(i)

the Australian Government Department of Agriculture;

(ii)

the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA);

(iii)

the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA);

(iv)

the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, New Zealand;

(v)

Dirección General de Servicios Ganaderos, Uruguay;

(vi)

Ministerio de Agroindustria, Argentina;

(c)

the responsible authority must in each case certify that—

(i)

beef cuts are obtained from carcasses of heifers and steers less than 30 months of age which have only been fed a diet, for at least the 100 days preceding slaughter, containing not less than 62% of concentrates and feed grain co-products on a dietary dry matter basis or feed grant co-products on a dry matter basis that meets or exceeds a metabolisable energy content greater than 12,26 mega joules per 1kg of dry matter;

(ii)

the heifers and steers that are fed the diet described in paragraph (i) have been fed, on average, no less than 1.4% of live body weight per day on a dry matter basis;

(iii)

the carcass from which beef cuts are derived have been evaluated by a person employed by the national government of the responsible authority who has based the evaluation, and the resulting classification of the carcass, on a method approved by that government;

(d)

the method referred to in sub-paragraph (c)(iii), and the classification, must evaluate expected carcass quality using a combination of carcass maturity and palatability traits of the beef cuts and must include, but not be limited to, an evaluation of the maturity characteristics of colour and texture of the longissimus dorsi muscle and bone and cartilage ossification, as well as an evaluation of expected palatability traits including a combination of the discrete specifications of intramuscular fat and firmness of the longissimus dorsi muscle.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 1 Pt. A para. 3(b)(i) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements and Tariff Quotas) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1657), regs. 1, 8(a)

Commencement

I1

Sch. 1 Pt. A para. 3 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1643, reg. 2, Sch.