Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (repealed)Dangos y teitl llawn

Article 18 U.K. Specific decisions

[F1 Without prejudice to the general application of Article 16 and Article 17(1), implementing measures may be laid down in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 19(2), and amendments to Annexes I, II, III, IV, V or VI, as measures designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, may be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 19(3), to specify:]

1.

tests to assess the performance of food business operators and their staff;

2.

the method of communicating inspection results;

3.

criteria to determine when, on the basis of a risk analysis, the official veterinarian need not be present in slaughterhouses and game handling establishments throughout ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection;

4.

rules concerning the content of tests for official veterinarians and official auxiliaries;

5.

microbiological criteria for process control in relation to hygiene in establishments;

6.

alternative procedures, serological or other laboratory tests that provide guarantees at least equivalent to specific post-mortem inspection procedures described in Annex I, Section IV, and may therefore replace them, if the competent authority so decides;

7.

circumstances in which certain of the specific post-mortem inspection procedures described in Annex I, Section IV, are not necessary, having regard to the holding, region or country of origin and to the principles of risk analysis,

8.

rules for laboratory testing;

9.

the cold treatment to be applied to meat in relation to cysticercosis and trichinosis;

10.

conditions under which holdings and regions can be certified as officially free of cysticercus or trichinae;

11.

methods to be applied when examining for the conditions referred to in Annex I, Section IV, Chapter IX;

12.

for fattening pigs, criteria for controlled housing conditions and integrated production systems;

13.

criteria for the classification of production and relaying areas for live bivalve molluscs in cooperation with the relevant Community Reference Laboratory, including:

(a)

limit values and analysis methods for marine biotoxins,

(b)

virus testing procedures and virological standards,

and

(c)

sampling plans and the methods and analytical tolerances to be applied to check compliance with the criteria;

14.

organoleptic criteria for the evaluation of the freshness of fishery products;

15.

analytical limits, methods of analysis and sampling plans for the official controls on fishery products required under Annex III, including with regard to parasites and environmental contaminants;

16.

the method by which the Commission will make lists of third countries and establishments in third countries available to the public pursuant to Articles 11, 12, 13 and 15[F2 .]

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Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 219/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Two.

F2 Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules.

F3 Deleted by Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules.