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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-252/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2019/252",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/252 of 11 February 2019 amending Decision 2005/240/EC authorising methods for grading pig carcasses in Poland (notified under document C(2019) 811) (Only the Polish text is authentic)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-252",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/252\nof 11 February 2019\namending Decision 2005/240/EC authorising methods for grading pig carcasses in Poland\n(notified under document C(2019) 811)\n(Only the Polish text is authentic)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to 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, and in particular Article 20(p) and (t) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nPoint 1 of Section B.IV of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 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 and only statistically proven assessment methods based on the physical measurement of one or more anatomical parts of the pig carcass may be authorised. The authorisation of grading methods should be subject to compliance with a maximum tolerance for statistical error in assessment. That tolerance is defined in Part A of Annex V to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182.\n(2)\nBy Commission Decision 2005/240/EC, the use of eight methods for grading pig carcasses was authorised in Poland. By that Decision Poland was also authorised to provide for a presentation of pig carcasses with the flare fat, kidneys and/or diaphragm.\n(3)\nPoland has requested the Commission to authorise three new methods for grading pig carcasses in its territory and has presented a detailed description of the dissection trials, indicating the principles on which these methods are based, the results of its dissection trials and the equations used for assessing the percentage of lean meat in the protocol provided for in Article 11(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182.\n(4)\nExamination of that request has revealed that the conditions for authorising the new grading methods are fulfilled. Those grading methods should therefore be authorised in Poland.\n(5)\nIn accordance with Article 20(t) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 Poland has also requested to be authorised to provide for a presentation of pig carcasses different from the standard presentation defined in Section B.III of Annex IV to that Regulation. Due to current normal commercial practices, pig carcasses are presented in Poland with the flare fat, kidneys and/or diaphragm and without the external auditory canal. Therefore, the recorded weight of the carcasses does not correspond to the weight for standard presentation.\n(6)\nExamination of that request revealed that the conditions for authorising a different presentation of pig carcasses in Poland are fulfilled. Poland should therefore be authorised to provide for a presentation of pig carcasses with the flare fat, kidneys and/or diaphragm and without the external auditory canal. The weight recorded for the carcasses should be adjusted accordingly to the weight for standard presentation.\n(7)\nDecision 2005/240/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(8)\nModifications of the apparatus or grading methods should not be allowed, unless they are explicitly authorised by Commission Implementing Decision.\n(9)\nThe measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the 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 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 of 20 April 2017 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Union scales for the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcasses and as regards the reporting of market prices of certain categories of carcasses and live animals (OJ L 171, 4.7.2017, p. 74)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Commission Decision 2005/240/EC of 11 March 2005 authorising methods for grading pig carcases in Poland (OJ L 74, 19.3.2005, p. 62)."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
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