{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-716/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-716/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2005/716",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/2005 of 12 May 2005 opening and providing for the administration of an import tariff quota for frozen beef intended for processing (1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-716",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Member States shall set up a system of physical and documentary checks to ensure that, within three months of the date of import, all meat is processed in the processing establishment and into the category of product specified on the import licence concerned.\nThe system shall include physical checks of quantity and quality at the start of the processing, during the processing and after the processing operation is completed. To this end, processors shall at any time be able to demonstrate the identity and use of the imported meat through appropriate production records.\nTechnical verification of the production method by the competent authority may, to the extent necessary, make allowance for drip losses and trimmings.\nIn order to verify the quality of the finished product and establish its conformity with the processor’s formula for the composition of the product, Member States shall take representative samples and analyse those products. The costs of such operations shall be borne by the processor concerned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2005/716/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:54:39.542296+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."
}