Article 1Alternative identification mark

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For the purpose of Article 2 of this Decision, F1the Secretary of State with the consent of the Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers, may decide to use the identification mark set out in the Annex to this Decision (‘the alternative identification mark’) instead of the special identification mark set out in Annex II to Directive 2002/99/EC.

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Article 2Marking of meat of poultry and farmed feathered game restricted to the national market

Meat from poultry or farmed feathered game, including minced meat, mechanically separated meat and meat preparations and or meat products, which do not satisfy F3the requirements set out in the following paragraph and are therefore restricted to the F4United Kingdom domestic market in accordance with paragraph (1)(g) of Article 23 of Directive 2005/94/EC or paragraphs 2(f)(i) and (4)(c) of Article 9 of Directive 92/66/EEC, may be marked with:

  1. (a)

    the alternative identification mark, or

  2. (b)

    the national mark, if such those products have been produced in establishments in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 2076/2005.

F5The requirements referred to above are the requirements laid down in Article 3 of Directive 2002/99/EC with, in paragraph 1 of that Article—

  1. (a)

    the substitution, for “Member States” of the authorities mentioned in Article 1(1) of this Decision;

  2. (b)

    the substitution, for “the Community” of “Great Britain”.

F6Article 3Addressee

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Done at Brussels, 16 February 2007.

For the Commission

Markos Kyprianou

Member of the Commission