The Carcase Classification and Price Reporting (Wales) Regulations 2018

PART 4 PIG CARCASES

Exemption for small-scale pig operators

12.—(1) These Regulations do not apply to the operator of an approved slaughterhouse at which fewer than 500 clean pigs per week as an annual average are slaughtered.

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

Competent authority: pig carcases

13.—(1) The Welsh Ministers are the competent authority for the purposes of—

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

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

(c) Articles 13 and 14 of the Commission Delegated Regulation and Article 14 of the Commission Implementing Regulation (reporting of market prices and calculation of average price per class);

(d) Article 17(2) of the Commission Delegated Regulation (supplementary provisions for reporting of market prices for carcases);

(e) Article 4(1) of the Commissioning Implementing Regulation (making and keeping reports for on-the-spot checks).

(2) The Welsh Ministers are responsible for—

(a) Article 11 of the Commission Delegated Regulation (authorisation of automated grading methods);

(b) Article 25 of the Commission Delegated Regulation (notification to the Commission);

(c) the on-the-spot checks as described in Articles 2 and 3 of the Commission Implementing Regulation.

Authorised grading methods

14.—(1) The classification of pig carcases must be carried out at an approved slaughterhouse—

(a) using an authorised grading method provided for in Article 11 of the Commission Delegated Regulation; and

(b) using grading techniques provided for in Article 11 of the Commission Delegated Regulation which are operated by qualified personnel.

(2) In this regulation, “qualified personnel” refers to any person who is proficient in using the equipment and the grading techniques being operated by that person.

Records instead of marking

15.  An operator or the person responsible for the classification of pigs may, instead of marking a carcase in accordance with the European pig provisions set out in Part 2 of Schedule 2, draw up a record for that carcase which comprises 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 carcases

16.—(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 12 months from the end of the calendar year to which the record relates.