The Carcase Classification and Price Reporting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

PART 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Carcase Classification and Price Reporting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018; they apply in Northern Ireland and come into operation on 10th January 2019.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the 2010 Regulations” means the Beef and Pig Carcase Classification Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010(1);

“adult bovine animal” means a bovine animal aged eight months or more;

“approved slaughterhouse” means an establishment used for slaughtering adult bovine animals or pigs, the meat of which is intended for human consumption and which is approved or conditionally approved under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin(2);

“authorised officer” means a person authorised by the Department for the purposes of these Regulations;

“bovine carcase” means a carcase or half-carcase of a slaughtered adult bovine animal bearing a health mark provided for in Article 5(2) of, and Chapter III of Section 1 of Annex 1 to, Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption(3); and in this definition—

(a)

“carcase” means the whole body of a slaughtered animal as presented after bleeding, evisceration and skinning, and

(b)

“half-carcase” means the product obtained by separating the carcase symmetrically through the middle of each cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebra and through the middle of the sternum and ischiopubic symphysis;

“classification” means—

(a)

the classification of bovine carcases in accordance with the European beef provisions, or

(b)

the classification of pig carcases in accordance with the European pig provisions and with regulation 15,

as the case may be and cognate terms are to be construed accordingly;

“clean pig” means a pig which has not been used for breeding;

“Commission Delegated Regulation” means Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 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 carcases and as regards the reporting of market prices of certain categories of carcases and live animals;

“Commission Implementing Regulation” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1184 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 carcases and as regards the reporting of market prices of certain categories of carcases and live animals;

“European beef provision” means a provision which is specified in column 2 of Schedule 1, the subject matter of which is described in column 3 of that Schedule;

“European pig provision” means a provision which is specified in column 2 of Schedule 2, the subject matter of which is described in column 3 of that Schedule;

“operator” means a person carrying on the business of an approved slaughterhouse;

“pig carcase” means the body of a slaughtered clean pig, bled and eviscerated, whole or divided down the mid-line;

“prescribed communication” means a communication of the results of the classification as required by Article 1 of the Commission Implementing Regulation;

“Regulation (EU) 2013” means Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products.

“the Department” means the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.

(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly (4).

(3) Other terms used in these Regulations that are also used in Regulation (EU) 2013, the Commission Delegated Regulation or the Commission Implementing Regulation have the same meaning they bear in those Regulations.

(4) In these Regulations, any reference to—

(a) Regulation (EU) 2013;

(b) the Commission Delegated Regulation; or

(c) the Commission Implementing Regulation,

is to be construed as a reference to that instrument as amended from time to time.

Transitional provisions

3.  Any notice, licence, approval or authorisation, given or granted under the 2010 Regulations and which has effect at the coming into operation of these Regulations remains in force as if it were given or granted under these Regulations.

Revocations

4.  The following are revoked—

(a) the Beef and Pig Carcase Classification Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010(5); and

(b) regulation 2 of the Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014(6).

(1)

S.R. 2010 No. 231 amended by S.R. 2014 No. 92

(2)

OJ No L139, 30.4.2004, p 55, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1981 (OJ No L285, 1.11.2017, p 10).

(3)

OJ No L139, 30.4.2004, p 206, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/2285 (OJ No L323, 9.12.2015, p 2).

(4)

1954 c 33 (N.I.)

(5)

S.R. 2010 No. 231

(6)

S.R. 2014 No. 92