{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1184/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1184/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2017/1184",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1184 of 20 April 2017 laying down rules for the application of 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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1184",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Minimum requirements of the on-the-spot checks",
  "text": "1. Where a risk assessment is carried out ... to determine the minimum requirements for on-the-spot checks, the frequency of those checks and the minimum number of carcasses to be checked shall be determined on the basis of such risk assessment, particularly taking into account the number of animals slaughtered in the slaughterhouses concerned and the findings during previous on-the-spot checks in these slaughterhouses.\n2. Where a risk assessment is not carried out ..., on-the-spot checks shall be performed as follows:\n(a) in all slaughterhouses which slaughter 150 or more bovine animals aged eight months or more per week as an annual average, at least twice every three months; each on-the-spot check shall relate to at least 40 carcasses selected at random or, if less than 40 carcasses are available, to all carcasses;\n(b) in all slaughterhouses which slaughter 500 pigs or more per week as an annual average, at least twice every three months;\n(c) the appropriate authorities shall determine the frequency of the on-the-spot checks and the minimum number of carcasses to be checked for slaughterhouses which:\n(i)slaughter less than 150 bovine animals aged eight months or more per week as an annual average;\n(ii)slaughter less than 500 pigs per week as an annual average;\n(iii)carry out sheep carcass classification.\n3. The on-the-spot checks shall verify in particular:\n(a) the category of the beef and sheep carcass;\n(b) the classification, weighing and marking of the carcasses;\n(c) the accuracy of the beef and sheep automated grading methods by using a system of points and limits that determines the ongoing accuracy of the grading method;\n(d) the carcass presentation;\n(e) if appropriate, the daily function test as well as any other technical aspects of grading methods;\n(f) the daily control reports as referred to in Article 12(1)(b) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 7(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 7(7)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(2)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 7(7)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2017/1184/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:46.505516+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."
}