# Council Directive 2007/43/EC of 28 June 2007 laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production (Text with EEA relevance), Division 1: Criteria

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(a) the monitoring of the holding carried out by the competent authority within the last two years did not reveal any deficiencies with respect to the requirements of this Directive, and
(b) the monitoring by the owner or keeper of the holding is carried out using the guides to good management practice referred to in Article 8, and
(c) in at least seven consecutive, subsequently checked flocks from a house the cumulative daily mortality rate was below 1 % + 0,06 % multiplied by the slaughter age of the flock in days.
If no monitoring of the holding was carried out by the competent authority within the last two years, at least one monitoring exercise has to be carried out to check whether requirement (a) is fulfilled.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2007/43/annex/V/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-43/annex-V/division-1
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