Article 3U.K.
The Member States shall lay down the conditions for checking the products and for issuing the certificate referred to in Article 2. These conditions may include the indication of a minimum quantity.
The Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that no substitution of products takes place between the time they are checked and the time they leave the Community's geographical territory or are delivered to the destinations referred to in Article 36 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/1999(1). These measures shall include identification of each product by means of an indelible mark on each quarter or by individual seal on each quarter. The slaughter and identification shall take place in the abattoir indicated by the party concerned in the application referred to in Article 2(2).
In cases where carcasses or half-carcasses are cut into forequarters and hindquarters at a location other than the abattoir, the authority referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 2(2) may replace the certificate referred to in Article 2, issued in respect of carcasses or half-carcasses, by certificates in respect of quarters, provided that all other requirements regarding the issue thereof have been complied with.