{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1521/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1521/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/1521",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1521 of 10 October 2018 amending Decision 2009/11/EC authorising methods for grading pig carcasses in Spain (notified under document C(2018) 6507) (Only the Spanish text is authentic)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1521",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Decision 2009/11/EC is amended as follows:\n(1) Article 1 is replaced by the following:\n‘Article 1 The use of the following methods is authorised for grading pig carcasses pursuant to point 1 of Section B.IV of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council in Spain:\n(a) the “Fat-O-Meat'er (FOM)” apparatus and the assessment methods related thereto, details of which are given in Part 1 of the Annex;\n(b) the “Fully automatic ultrasonic carcase grading (Autofom)” apparatus and the assessment methods related thereto, details of which are given in Part 2 of the Annex;\n(c) the “Ultrafom 300” apparatus and the assessment methods related thereto, details of which are given in Part 3 of the Annex;\n(d) the “Automatic vision system (VCS2000)” apparatus and the assessment methods related thereto, details of which are given in Part 4 of the Annex;\n(e) the “Fat-O-Meat'er II (FOM II)” apparatus and the assessment methods related thereto, details of which are given in Part 5 of the Annex;\n(f) the “AutoFOM III” apparatus and the assessment methods related thereto, details of which are given in Part 6 of the Annex;\n(g) the “manual method (ZP)” with a ruler and the assessment methods related thereto, details of which are given in Part 7 of the Annex;\n(h) the “CSB-Image-Meater” apparatus and the assessment methods related thereto, details of which are given in Part 8 of the Annex;\n(i) the “gmSCAN” apparatus and the assessment methods related thereto, details of which are given in Part 9 of the Annex.\nThe manual method ZP with a ruler, referred to in point (g) of the first paragraph, shall only be authorised for abattoirs:\n(a) where the number of slaughters does not exceed 500 pigs per week on yearly average basis; and\n(b) having a slaughter line with a capacity to process no more than 40 pigs per hour.’\n(2) The Annex is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671).’"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/1521/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:59.191497+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}