{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1308/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1308/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/1308",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1308",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Other implementing powers",
  "text": "This Article does not apply to the classification of carcasses by slaughterhouses in England (see section 40(1) of the Agriculture Act 2020).\nThis Article does not apply to the classification of carcasses by slaughterhouses in Wales (see section 35(1) of the Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023).\nThis Article does not apply to the classification of carcasses by slaughterhouses in Scotland (see section 11 of the Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020).\nBy way of derogation from point C.III of Annex IV, the appropriate authority may make regulations providing for the following criteria for classification of lambs of less than 13kg carcass weight:\n(a)carcass weight;\n(b)colour of meat;\n(c)fat cover.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 inserted (30.11.2022) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), s. 57(2)(d), Sch. 7 para. 6 (with Sch. 7 para. 16); S.I. 2022/1255, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 inserted (13.12.2022) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), s. 57(3)(c), Sch. 7 para. 21 (with Sch. 7 para. 31); S.I. 2022/1204, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 substituted (17.10.2023) by Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 4), s. 56(4), Sch. 3 para. 16 (with Sch. 3 para. 18); S.I. 2023/1092, art. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 inserted (S.) (1.1.2021) by Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 17), s. 26(2), sch. para. 1(4) (with s. 25, sch. para. 2); S.S.I. 2020/373, reg. 2(2)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 9(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 9(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Arts. 8-21: power to modify conferred (S.) (1.1.2021) by Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 17), ss. 6, 26(2) (with s. 25); S.S.I. 2020/373, reg. 2(2)(a) (as amended (16.6.2025) by Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 11), ss. 26, 38(2); S.S.I. 2025/167, reg. 2(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2020/21",
      "affecting_title": "Agriculture Act 2020"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1308/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:06.542387+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."
}