ANNEX IIPRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE HEALTH MARK IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 48

1.The health mark must be an oval mark at least 6,5 cm wide by 4,5 cm high bearing the following information in perfectly legible characters:

  1. (a)

    the name of the country in which the establishment is located, which may be written out in full in capitals or shown as a two-letter code in accordance with the relevant ISO code. In the case of Member States, however, these codes are BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, GR, ES, FR, HR, IT, CY, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE and UK;

  2. (b)

    the approval number of the slaughterhouse; and

  3. (c)

    (when the mark is applied in an establishment located in the Union) the abbreviation CE, EC, EF, EG, EK, EO, EY, ES, EÜ, EB, EZ, KE or WE. Those abbreviations must not appear on marks applied on meat imported into the Union from slaughterhouses located outside the Union.