8.—(1) The Agency must enforce the European poultrymeat provisions at slaughterhouses and approved cutting plants.
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a food authority must enforce the European poultrymeat provisions in its area other than at slaughterhouses and approved cutting plants.
(3) A food authority must enforce the European Poultrymeat provisions in its area in relation to poultrymeat imported from a third country.
(4) The record keeping requirements in Article 12(2), (3) and (4) of the Commission Regulation must be enforced by the Scottish Ministers.
(5) In this regulation an “approved cutting plant” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1(17) of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin(1), and is an establishment that is—
(a)approved or conditionally approved as such by the Agency under Article 31(2) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules(2); or
(b)operating as such under Article 4(5) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004, pending such approval.
OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p.55, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 150/2011 (OJ L 46, 19.2.2011, p.14).
OJ L 165, 30.4.2004, p.1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 208/2011 (OJ L 58, 3.3.2011, p.29).