# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 of 20 April 2017 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Union scales for the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcasses and as regards the reporting of market prices of certain categories of carcasses and live animals, Article 2: Derogations from the compulsory classification of carcasses

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Nothing in this Regulation prevents the appropriate authorities from deciding that the requirements on classification of carcasses of bovine animals and of pigs, laid down in points A.V and B.II of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, respectively, shall not be compulsory for slaughterhouses which slaughter:
(a) less than 150 bovine animals aged eight months or more per week as an annual average;
(b) less than 500 pigs per week as an annual average.
Nothing in this Regulation prevents the appropriate authorities from determining a lower limit, in particular to ensure the representativeness of price recording as referred to in Article 8(2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1184.
2. Nothing in this Regulation prevents the appropriate authorities from deciding that the requirements on classification of carcasses of bovine animals and pigs shall not be compulsory:
(a) for carcasses of bovines and pigs owned by the slaughterhouse if no commercial transaction in purchasing these animals takes place;
(b) for carcasses of pigs of clearly defined local breeds or with particular modes of marketing if their anatomical body composition makes the homogeneous and standardised classification of carcasses impossible.
3. Nothing in this Regulation prevents the appropriate authorities that apply classification of sheep carcasses pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 10 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 from deciding, based on objective and non-discriminatory criteria, that the requirements on classification of sheep carcasses shall not be compulsory for certain slaughterhouses.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2017/1182/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1182/article-2
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