Commission Regulation (EC) No 94/2009Show full title

Article 4 Controls and communication

1. Ireland shall adopt all measures necessary to ensure proper application of this Regulation, in particular by:

(a) ensuring that none of the products compensated for under Article 2 enter the food or feed chain by envisaging appropriate on-the-spot supervision, denaturing agents as appropriate and seals on transports;

(b) performing at least once per calendar month, administrative and accounting controls at each participating rendering plant to ensure that all carcases and pigmeat delivered since the beginning of the scheme or since the last such control have been rendered;

(c) in respect of fresh, chilled or frozen pigmeat stored at locations other than slaughterhouses, as referred to in Article 1(c)(ii), performing an on-the-spot inventory control to establish the pigmeat quantity deriving from animals slaughtered no later than 6 December 2008, ensuring that such pigmeat is secure, easily identifiable and kept apart physically from other stocks, and that removal operations are subject to the necessary identification and weighing controls;

(d) providing for on-the-spot controls and detailed reports on those controls indicating in particular:

(i)

the age-span, classification and total number of animals transported from the farm, the date and time of their transport to and arrival at a slaughterhouse;

(ii)

the quantities of carcases transported under seal from the slaughterhouse and received at the rendering plant, animal movement permit and seal numbers;

(iii)

in case of slaughtering on farm as referred to in the third subparagraph of Article 2(1), the number of animals slaughtered on farm, the number of carcases transported under seal from the farm and the quantity received at the rendering plant, animal movement permit and seal numbers;

(iv)

for each pigmeat product, the date of slaughter of the animal from which the product was obtained and a weight protocol of that product; and in respect of fresh, chilled or frozen pigmeat stored in locations other than slaughterhouses, the location and steps taken to ensure the security of the product concerned during storage and removal;

(v)

the quantities and classification of pigmeat product transported under seal from the point of collection and received at the rendering plant, movement permit and seal numbers;

(vi)

the aspects, registers and documents checked pursuant to the control required under point (b) above, and at least a daily summary of the quantities of carcases and pigmeat entering the rendering plant, the corresponding dates of rendering and quantities rendered.

2. Ireland shall send to the Commission:

(a) as soon as possible after the entry into force of this Regulation, a description of its implemented control and reporting arrangements for all operations involved;

(b) no later than 1 March 2009 a detailed report on the controls undertaken under paragraph 1.