PART 4PIG CARCASES

Exemption for small-scale pig operators13

1

These Regulations do not apply to an operator of an approved slaughterhouse at which F3less than 500 clean pigs per week as an annual average are slaughtered.

2

Nothing in paragraph (1) prevents the application of these Regulations in relation to bovine carcases if adult bovine animals are also slaughtered in that operator's slaughterhouse.

F1Competent authority etc.: pig carcases14

1

The Scottish Ministers are the competent authority, in relation to pigs, for the purposes of—

a

Article 4(1) of the Commission Implementing Regulation (reports);

b

Article 7(4) of the Commission Delegated Regulation (classification and weighing);

c

Article 12(2)(b) of the Commission Delegated Regulation (additional provisions on classification by automated grading techniques);

d

Article 14 of the Commission Implementing Regulation and Article 14 of the Commission Delegated Regulation (calculation and reporting of market prices); and

e

Article 17(2) of the Commission Delegated Regulation (notification of supplementary payments).

2

The Scottish Ministers are responsible for on-the-spot checks, in relation to pigs, as described in Articles 2 and 3 of the Commission Implementing Regulation.

F2Marking15

Pig carcases need not be marked in accordance with Article 8(1), (2)(b), (3)(c), (4) and (5) of the Commission Delegated Regulation if an official record is drawn up and comprises for each carcase at least—

a

the individual identification of the carcase by any unalterable means;

b

the warm weight of the carcase; and

c

the result of the classification.

Records: pig carcases16

1

An operator of an approved slaughterhouse must keep a record of the particulars specified in Schedule 4 relating to each pig carcase which is classified in that slaughterhouse.

2

The operator must retain each record for a period of 2 years from the end of the calendar year to which the record relates.