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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-303/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2011/303",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 20 May 2011 authorising methods for grading pig carcasses in the Netherlands (notified under document C(2011) 3427) (Only the Dutch text is authentic) (2011/303/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-303",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision\nof 20 May 2011\nauthorising methods for grading pig carcasses in the Netherlands\n(notified under document C(2011) 3427)\n(Only the Dutch text is authentic)\n(2011/303/EU)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation), and in particular Article 43(m), in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nPoint 1 of Section B.IV of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 provides that, for the classification of pig carcasses, the lean-meat content has to be assessed by means of grading methods authorised by the Commission, which methods may only be statistically proven assessment methods based on the physical measurement of one or more anatomical parts of the pig carcass. The authorisation of grading methods is subject to compliance with a maximum tolerance for statistical error in assessment. That tolerance is defined in Article 23(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1249/2008 of 10 December 2008 laying down detailed rules on the implementation of the Community scales for the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcasses and the reporting of prices thereof.\n(2)\nBy Decision 2005/627/EC, the Commission authorised the use of two methods for grading pig carcasses in the Netherlands.\n(3)\nDue to technical adaptations and the fact that a change in the Dutch pig population is foreseen as castrated males are expected to be absent in the near future, the Netherlands has requested the Commission to authorise three methods for grading pig carcasses on its territory and has presented a detailed description of the dissection trial, indicating the principles on which those methods are based, the results of its dissection trial and the equations used for assessing the percentage of lean meat in the protocol provided for in Article 23(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1249/2008.\n(4)\nExamination of that request has revealed that the conditions for authorising those grading methods are fulfilled. Those grading methods should therefore be authorised in the Netherlands.\n(5)\nModifications of the apparatus or grading methods should not be allowed, unless they are explicitly authorised by Commission Decision.\n(6)\nFor reasons of clarity and legal certainty, Decision 2005/627/EC should be repealed.\n(7)\nIn view of the technical circumstances while introducing new devices and new equations, the methods for grading pig carcasses authorised under this Decision should apply from 3 October 2011.\n(8)\nThe measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of the Agricultural Markets,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 337, 16.12.2008, p. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 224, 30.8.2005, p. 17."
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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