Commission Regulation (EC) No 543/2008Show full title

Article 2 U.K.

For the purposes of this Regulation:

(a) ‘carcase’ means the whole body of a bird of the species referred to in Article 1(1) after bleeding, plucking and evisceration; however, removal of the kidneys shall be optional; an eviscerated carcase may be presented for sale with or without giblets, meaning heart, liver, gizzard and neck, inserted into the abdominal cavity;

(b) ‘cuts thereof’ means poultry meat which owing to the size and the characteristics of the coherent muscle tissue is identifiable as having been obtained from a particular part of the carcase;

((c) ‘pre-packaged poultry meat’ means poultry meat presented in accordance with the conditions laid down in [F1 Article 2(2)(e) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011];

(d) ‘poultry meat without pre-packaging’ means poultry meat presented for sale to the final consumer without pre-packaging or else packed at the place of sale at the latter’s request;

(e) ‘marketing’ means holding or displaying for sale, offering for sale, selling, delivery or any other form of marketing;

(f) ‘batch’ means poultry meat of the same species and type, the same class, the same production run, from the same slaughterhouse or cutting plant, situated in the same place, which is to be inspected. For the purposes of Article 9 and Annexes V and VI, a batch shall only comprise pre-packages of the same nominal weight category;

[F2 (g) ‘third country’ means any country or territory other than—

(i) the United Kingdom,

(ii) the Bailiwick of Guernsey,

(iii) the Bailiwick of Jersey, or

(iv) the Isle of Man;

(h) ‘relevant authority’ means:

(i) in relation to England, the Secretary of State,

(ii) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers,

(iii) in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;

(i) ‘national reference laboratory’ means a laboratory designated in accordance with Article 100 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 2(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1422), regs. 1, 8(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Art. 2(g)(h)(i) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1422), regs. 1, 8(3)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1453, regs. 1(2)(b), 14(18)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 2(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1422), regs. 1, 8(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Art. 2(g)(h)(i) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1422), regs. 1, 8(3)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1453, regs. 1(2)(b), 14(18)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)