{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2000-1760/article-12",
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  "legislation": "eur/2000/1760",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 July 2000 establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2000-1760",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Title, the following definitions apply:\n(1)‘beef’ means all products falling within CN codes 0201, 0202, 0206 10 95 and 0206 29 91;\n(2)‘labelling’ means the attachment of a label to an individual piece or pieces of meat or to their packaging material, or, in the case of non-pre-wrapped products, the supply of appropriate information in written and visible form to the consumer at the point of sale;\n(3)‘organisation’ means a group of operators from the same or different parts of the beef trade;\n(4)‘minced meat’ means any boned meat that has been minced into fragments and contains less than 1 % salt and that falls within CN codes 0201, 0202, 0206 10 95 and 0206 29 91;\n(5)‘trimmings’ means small pieces of meat recognised as fit for human consumption produced exclusively during trimming operations during the boning of carcasses and/or the cutting up of meat;\n(6)‘cut meat’ means meat which has been cut into small cubes, slices or other individual portions that do not require further cutting by an operator before being bought by the final consumer and that can be directly used by that consumer. This definition does not cover minced meat and trimmings.\n(7)‘third country’ means any country or territory other than:\n(a)the United Kingdom;\n(b)the Bailiwick of Jersey;\n(c)the Bailiwick of Guernsey;\n(d)the Isle of Man.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU) No 653/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 as regards electronic identification of bovine animals and labelling of beef."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 12(7) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 3(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2000/1760/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:57:17.412867+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."
}