The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Marking of Meat and Meat Products) Regulations 2001

Amendment to Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994

2.—(1) The Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994(1) are amended in so far as they extend to England in accordance with this regulation.

(2) For regulation 10(3) there is substituted—

“(3) No person shall sell for human consumption any meat product manufactured or re-wrapped in Great Britain and containing meat from animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or other biungulates originating in Great Britain or processed in Great Britain after the coming into force of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Marking of Meat and Meat Products) Regulations 2001 unless it carries—

(a) the British EC health mark; or

(b) the circular mark referred to in paragraph 3A of Part VI of Schedule 2 to these Regulations,

in each case applied in accordance with that Part.

(4) No person shall sell for human consumption any meat product manufactured or re-wrapped in Great Britain and not containing meat from animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine, or porcine species or other biungulates originating in Great Britain unless it carries—

(a) the British EC health mark; or

(b) the British national health mark,

in each case applied in accordance with that Part.”.

(3) The following paragraph is inserted after paragraph 3 of Part VI of Schedule 2—

“3A— (1) Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 to 3 above, meat products containing meat obtained from animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or other biungulates and marked in accordance with paragraph 9 of Schedule 12 to the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995 shall be marked with a stamp consisting of a circular mark containing—

(a) in the upper part the letters “GB”, and

(b) in the lower part the meat product premises code.

(2) Paragraph 3A(1) shall not apply to meat products which have been heat-treated in accordance with Article 3(2) of Decision 2001/172/EC, but if they are dispatched from Great Britain this must be done in accordance with Article 3(4) and (5) of that Decision.

(3) Notwithstanding paragraph 3A(1), until 23rd July 2001, where meat products are not intended for intra-Community trade the health mark shall be—

(a) the health mark in that paragraph, or

(b) that health mark in addition to the British EC health mark.

3B— (1) Marking meat products containing meat obtained from animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or other biungulates reared, slaughtered and processed outside the United Kingdom with the British EC health mark does not exempt those products from the requirements of Article 3(3)(b) of Decision 2001/172/EC if they are to be exported.

(2) Marking meat products made from pre-processed meat products which are derived from animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or other biungulates and which originate from outside the United Kingdom with the British EC health mark does not exempt them from the requirements of Article 11, second indent of Decision 2001/172/EC if they are to be exported.”.

(1)

S.I. 1994/3082.