1.The [F1appropriate authority] shall organise an authorisation test for a jury composed of at least five licensed experts in classification of carcasses of bovine or sheep animals. F2... F2... The jury shall comprise an uneven number of experts. F2...U.K.
The members of the jury shall work in an independent and anonymous way.
The [F1appropriate authority] shall nominate a coordinator of the authorisation test who shall:
not be part of the jury;
have satisfactory technical knowledge and be fully independent;
monitor the independent and anonymous functioning of the members of the jury;
collect the classification results of the members of the jury and those obtained by using the automated grading methods;
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;
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.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Annex 4 para. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 6(45)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Words in Annex 4 para. 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 6(45)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)