TITLE IIU.K.Labelling of beef and beef products

SECTION IU.K.Compulsory Community beef labelling system

Article 13U.K.General rules

1.Operators and organisations marketing beef in the Community shall label it in accordance with this Article.

The compulsory labelling system shall ensure a link between, on the one hand, the identification of the carcass, quarter or pieces of meat and, on the other hand, the individual animal or, where this is sufficient to enable the accuracy of the information on the label to be checked, the group of animals concerned.

2.The label shall contain the following indications:

(a)a reference number or reference code ensuring the link between the meat and the animal or animals. This number may be the identification number of the individual animal from which the beef was derived or the identification number relating to a group of animals;

(b)the approval number of the slaughterhouse at which the animal or group of animals was slaughtered and the Member State or third country in which the slaughterhouse is established. The indication shall read: ‘Slaughtered in (name of the Member State or third country) (approval number)’;

(c)the approval number of the cutting hall which performed the cutting operation on the carcass or group of carcases and the Member State or third country in which the hall is established. The indication shall read: ‘Cutting in: (name of the Member State or third country) (approval number)’.

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5. [F2(a) Operators and organisations shall also indicate on the labels:]

(i)

Member State or third country of birth;

(ii)

all Member States or third countries where fattening took place;

(iii)

Member State or third country where slaughter took place;

(b)However, where the beef is derived from animals born, raised and slaughtered:

(i)

in the same Member State, the indication may be given as ‘Origin: (name of Member State)’;

(ii)

in the same third country, the indication may be given as ‘Origin: (name of third country)’.

[F36. To avoid unnecessary repetition of the indication on the label of the beef of the Member States or third countries where rearing took place, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 22b pertaining to a simplified presentation for cases of very short stay of the animal in the Member State or third country of birth or of slaughter.

The Commission shall, by way of implementing acts, adopt rules concerning the maximum size and composition of the group of animals referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2(a), taking into account constraints as regards the homogeneity of the groups of animals where those cut meats and trimmings come from. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 23(2).]

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