ANNEX IV U.K. Authorisation of automated grading methods for beef and sheep carcasses referred to in Article 10

PART A U.K. Conditions and minimum requirements for authorisation

1. The Member State concerned shall organise an authorisation test for a jury composed of at least five licensed experts in classification of carcasses of bovine or sheep animals. Two members of the jury shall come from the Member State performing the test. The other members of the jury shall each come from another Member State. The jury shall comprise an uneven number of experts. The Commission services and other Member States` expert may attend the authorisation test as observers. U.K.

The members of the jury shall work in an independent and anonymous way.

The Member State concerned shall nominate a coordinator of the authorisation test who shall:

(a)

not be part of the jury;

(b)

have satisfactory technical knowledge and be fully independent;

(c)

monitor the independent and anonymous functioning of the members of the jury;

(d)

collect the classification results of the members of the jury and those obtained by using the automated grading methods;

(e)

ensure that, during the entire duration of the authorisation test, the classification results obtained by using the automated grading methods shall not be available to any of the members of the jury and vice versa nor to any other interested party;

(f)

validate the classifications for each carcass and may decide, for objective reasons to be specified, to reject carcasses from the sample to be used for the analysis.