Division V Classification and identification

United Kingdom

Slaughterhouses approved under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council^f1 shall take measures to ensure that all carcasses or half-carcasses bovine animals aged eight months or more slaughtered in such slaughterhouses and bearing a health mark provided for Article 5(2) in conjunction with Chapter III of Section I of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council^f2 are classified and identified in accordance with the F1... scale.

Before identification by marking, F2the appropriate authority may grant authorisation to have the external fat removed from the carcasses or half-carcasses if this is justified by the fat cover.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word in Annex 4 s. A(5) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 80(b)(iii)(aa); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in Annex 4 s. A(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 80(b)(iii)(bb) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1405, reg. 5(6)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55).
f2: Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption (OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 206).

Notes on Annex IV

Textual amendments

F1: Word in Annex 4 heading omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 80(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Notes on Division A

Textual amendments

F1: Word in Annex 4 s. A heading omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 80(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)