{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-545/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2007/545",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 545/2007 of 16 May 2007 opening and providing for the administration of an import tariff quota for frozen beef intended for processing (1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-545",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. For the purposes of this Regulation, an A-product shall mean a processed product falling within CN code 1602 10 , 1602 50 31 or 1602 50 95 , not containing meat other than that of animals of the bovine species, with a collagen/protein ratio of no more than 0,45 and containing by weight at least 20 % of lean meat, excluding offal and fat, with meat and jelly accounting for at least 85 % of the total net weight.\nThe collagen content shall be considered to be the hydroxyproline content multiplied by the factor 8. The hydroxyproline content shall be determined according to ISO method 3496-1994.\nThe lean bovine meat content excluding fat shall be determined in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2429/86.\nOffal includes the following: heads and cuts thereof (including ears), feet, tails, hearts, udders, livers, kidneys, sweetbreads (thymus glands), pancreas, brains, lungs, throats, thick skirts, spleens, tongues, caul, spinal cords, edible skin, reproductive organs (i.e. uteri, ovaries and testes), thyroid glands, pituitary glands.\nThe product shall be subjected to a heat treatment sufficient to ensure the coagulation of meat proteins in the whole of the product which may not show any traces of a pinkish liquid on the cut surface when the product is cut along a line passing through its thickest part.\n2. For the purposes of this Regulation, a B-product shall mean a processed product containing beef, other than:\n(a) the products specified in Article 1(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999; or\n(b) the products referred to under paragraph 1 of this Article.\nHowever, a processed product falling within CN code 0210 20 90 which has been dried or smoked so that the colour and consistency of the fresh meat has totally disappeared and with a water/protein ratio not exceeding 3:2 shall be considered to be a B-product.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 98/2008 of 1 February 2008 amending several regulations as regards the combined nomenclature codes for certain beef and veal products."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 210, 1.8.1986, p. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2007/545/article/2",
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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."
}