Division 1

The following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:

1. (a)

   ‘carcases of bovine animals’, for the purposes of subheadings 0201 10 and 0202 10: whole carcases of the slaughtered animals after having been bled, eviscerated and skinned, imported with or without the heads, with or without the feet and with or without the other offals attached. Where carcases are imported without the heads, the latter must have been separated from the carcase at the atloido-occipital joint. When imported without the feet, the latter must have been cut off at the carpo-metacarpal or tarso-metatarsal joints; ‘carcase’ includes the front part of the carcase comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder, having more than 10 pairs of ribs;

2. (b)

   ‘half-carcases of bovine animals’, for the purposes of subheadings 0201 10 and 0202 10: the product resulting from the symmetrical division of the whole carcase through the centre of each cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebra and through the centre of the sternum and of the ischio-pubic symphysis; ‘half-carcase’ includes the front part of the half-carcase comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder, having more than 10 ribs;

3. (c)

   ‘compensated quarters’, for the purposes of subheadings 0201 20 20 and 0202 20 10: portions composed of either:

   • forequarters comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder, and cut at the tenth rib; and hindquarters comprising all the bones and the thigh and sirloin, and cut at the third rib, or

   • forequarters comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder, and cut at the fifth rib, with the whole of the flank and breast attached; and hindquarters comprising all the bones and the thigh and sirloin, and cut at the eighth cut rib.

   The forequarters and the hindquarters constituting ‘compensated quarters’ must be presented to customs at the same time and in equal numbers, and the total weight of the forequarters must be the same as that of the hindquarters; however, a difference between the weights of the two parts of the consignment is allowed, provided that this does not exceed 5 % of the weight of the heavier part (forequarters or hindquarters);

4. (d)

   ‘unseparated forequarters’, for the purposes of subheadings 0201 20 30 and 0202 20 30: the front part of a carcase, comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder, with a minimum of four pairs of ribs and a maximum of 10 pairs of ribs (the first four pairs of ribs must be whole, the others may be cut), with or without the thin flank;

5. (e)

   ‘separated forequarters’, for the purposes of subheadings 0201 20 30 and 0202 20 30: the front part of a half-carcase, comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder, with a minimum of four ribs and a maximum of 10 ribs (the first four ribs must be whole, the others may be cut), with or without the thin flank;

6. (f)

   ‘unseparated hindquarters’, for the purposes of subheadings 0201 20 50 and 0202 20 50: the rear part of a carcase comprising all the bones and the thigh and sirloin, including the fillet, with a minimum of three pairs of whole or cut ribs, with or without the shank and with or without the thin flank;

7. (g)

   ‘separated hindquarters’, for the purposes of subheadings 0201 20 50 and 0202 20 50: the rear part of a half-carcase, comprising all the bones and the thigh and sirloin, including the fillet, with a minimum of three whole or cut ribs, with or without the shank and with or without the thin flank;

8. (h)
   1. 1..

      ‘crop’ and ‘chuck and blade’ cuts, for the purposes of subheading 0202 30 50: the dorsal part of the forequarter, including the upper part of the shoulder, obtained from a forequarter with a minimum of four ribs and a maximum of 10 ribs by a cut along a straight line through the point where the first rib joins the first sternal segment to the point of reflection of the diaphragm on the tenth rib;

   2. 2..

      ‘brisket’ cut, for the purposes of subheading 0202 30 50: the lower part of the forequarter, comprising the brisket navel end and the brisket point end.

Products covered by additional notes 1(A)(a) to (g) to this chapter may be presented with or without the vertebral column.

In determining the number of whole or cut ribs referred to in additional note 1(A), only those attached to the vertebral column are to be taken into consideration. If the vertebral column has been removed, only the whole or cut ribs which otherwise would have been directly attached to the vertebral column are to be taken into consideration.