The Beef Carcase (Classification) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Title and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Beef Carcase (Classification) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st February 1998.

Amendments to the Beef Carcase (Classification) Regulations 1991

2.—(1) The Beef Carcase (Classification) Regulations 1991(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) the following definition is inserted immediately after the definition of “the appropriate Minister”—

““approval number” means (in relation to a regulated slaughterhouse) the unique number of that regulated slaughterhouse required to be specified in the centre of a health mark (as defined in regulation 2(1) of the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995 (“the 1995 Regulations”(2)));”;

(b) the following text is substituted for the definitions of “regulated carcase” and “regulated slaughterhouse”—

““regulated carcase” means the carcase or half-carcase(3) of an adult bovine animal which has been marked in accordance with regulation 11 of and Schedule 12 to the 1995 Regulations;

“regulated slaughterhouse” means a slaughterhouse (as defined by regulation 2(1) of the 1995 Regulations) licensed in accordance with regulation 4 of those Regulations;”; and

(c) the definition of “veterinary approval number” is revoked.

(3) The following paragraph is inserted after paragraph (3) of regulation 2—

“(4) Any reference in these Regulations to a Community instrument is a reference to that instrument as amended on the date of making of the Beef Carcase (Classification) (Amendment) Regulations 1998.”.

(4) In Schedule 1 (Community provisions)—

(a) in column (1) the following numbered entry is inserted after entry number 5—

“6.   Commission Regulation (EC) No. 295/96 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1892/87 as regards the recording of market prices of adult bovine animals, on the basis of the Community scale for the classification of carcases (OJ No. L39, 17.2.96, p.1).”;

(b) in column (2) the following reference is inserted immediately to the right of the new entry number 6 inserted by sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph—

“Article 2(1)(a)”; and

(c) in column (3) the following description is inserted immediately to the right of the new provision inserted by sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph—

“Requirement to record market prices.”.

(5) In each of—

(a) paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 (particulars of the occupier of a regulated slaughterhouse to be notified to the appropriate Minister);

(b) paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 5 (records to be kept by occupier for each regulated carcase classified);

(c) paragraph 1 of Part II of that Schedule (records to be kept by occupier for each exempt carcase obtained); and

(d) paragraph 1 of Part III of that Schedule (records to be kept by exempt occupier),

the phrase “approval number” is substituted for the phrase “veterinary approval number”.

Donoughue

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

23rd December 1997

Sewel

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

6th January 1998