Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1988Show full title

Article 18 U.K. Definitions for tariff quotas under order numbers 09.0144 and 09.0145 and sub-tariff quotas under order numbers 09.0161, 09.0162, 09.0163 and 09.0164

1. For the purposes of this Regulation, an ‘A-product’ within tariff quotas under order numbers 09.0144, 09.0161 and 09.0162 shall mean a processed product falling within CN code 1602 10 00, 1602 50 31 or 1602 50 95, not containing meat other than that of animals of the bovine species. The product shall have a collagen/protein ratio of no more than 0,45 and contain by weight at least 20 % of lean meat, excluding offal and fat with meat and jelly accounting for at least 85 % of the total net weight. For the purposes of this paragraph:

(a) the collagen content shall be considered to be the hydroxyproline content multiplied by the factor 8, whereas the hydroxyproline content shall be determined according to ISO method 3496-1994;

(b) the lean bovine meat content excluding fat shall be determined in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2429/86(1);

(c) offal shall include the following: heads and cuts thereof (including ears), feet, tails, hearts, udders, livers, kidneys, sweetbreads (thymus glands), pancreas, brains, lungs, throats, thick skirts, spleens, tongues, caul, spinal cords, edible skin, reproductive organs (i.e. uteri, ovaries and testes), thyroid glands, pituitary glands;

(d) the product shall be subjected to a heat treatment sufficient to ensure the coagulation of meat proteins in the whole of the product which may not show any traces of a pinkish liquid on the cut surface when the product is cut along a line passing through its thickest part.

2. For the purposes of this Regulation, a ‘B-product’ within the tariff quotas under order numbers 09.0145, 09.0163 and 09.0164 shall mean a processed product containing beef, other than the products specified in point (a) of Part XV of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 or the products referred to under paragraph 1 of this Article. A processed product falling within CN code 0210 20 90, which has been dried or smoked so that the colour and consistency of the fresh meat has totally disappeared and with a water/protein ratio not exceeding 3:2, shall also be a B-product.

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Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2429/86 of 31 July 1986 on the procedure for determining the meat content of meat preparations and preserves falling within subheading ex 16.02 B III b) 1) of the nomenclature contained in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2184/86 (OJ L 210, 1.8.1986, p. 39).