Article 1 Communication of the classification results

United Kingdom

The slaughterhouses, the classification agencies or the qualified classifiers provided for in Article 9(1)(a) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 carrying out the classification in accordance with points A.II, A.III, B.II, C.II and C.III of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall communicate to the supplier of the animal, the results of the classification. That communication shall be, in paper form or by electronic means and shall indicate per carcass:

(a)

the classification results by means of the corresponding letters and figures referred to in points A.II, A.III, B.II, C.II and C.III of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, respectively;

(b)

the carcass weight established in accordance with Article 7 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182, specifying whether it relates to the warm or cold weight;

(c)

the carcass presentation applied at the moment of weighing and classifying on the hook; the indication of the carcass presentation shall not be compulsory if only one single carcass presentation is allowed within the territory F1of the constituent nation concerned in accordance with the F2applicable legislation;

(d)

where applicable, that classification has been carried out using an automated grading technique.

F3Nothing in this Regulation prevents the appropriate authorities from requiring that the communication referred to in paragraph 1(a) includes subclasses, where such information is available.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Art. 1(1)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 7(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Word in Art. 1(1)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 7(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Words in Art. 1(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 7(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)