Article 4 Amendment to Decision 2000/572/EC

In the model of veterinary certificate ‘MP-PREP’, in Annex II to Decision 2000/572/EC, point II.3 is replaced by the following:

‘II.3.

Animal welfare attestation

I, the undersigned official veterinarian, hereby certify, that the meat preparations (¹) described in Part I of this certificate are derived from meat from animals which have been handled in the slaughterhouse before and at the time of slaughter or killing in accordance with the relevant provisions of Union legislation and have met requirements at least equivalent to those laid down in Chapters II and III of Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009^f1.’.