TITLE IILabelling of beef and beef products

Article 11

An operator or an organisation, as defined in Article 12, which:

  • is required, by virtue of Section I of this title, to label beef at all stages of marketing,

  • wishes, by virtue of Section II of this title, to label beef at the point of sale in such a way as to provide information, other than that laid down by Article 13, concerning certain characteristics or production conditions of the labelled meat or of the animal from which it derives,

shall do so in accordance with this title.

This title shall apply without prejudice to relevant F1F2assimilated law, in particular on beef.

F3Article 12

For the purposes of this Title, the following definitions apply:

  1. (1)

    ‘beef’ means all products falling within CN codes 0201, 0202, 0206 10 95 and 0206 29 91;

  2. (2)

    ‘labelling’ means the attachment of a label to an individual piece or pieces of meat or to their packaging material, or, in the case of non-pre-wrapped products, the supply of appropriate information in written and visible form to the consumer at the point of sale;

  3. (3)

    ‘organisation’ means a group of operators from the same or different parts of the beef trade;

  4. (4)

    ‘minced meat’ means any boned meat that has been minced into fragments and contains less than 1 % salt and that falls within CN codes 0201, 0202, 0206 10 95 and 0206 29 91;

  5. (5)

    ‘trimmings’ means small pieces of meat recognised as fit for human consumption produced exclusively during trimming operations during the boning of carcasses and/or the cutting up of meat;

  6. (6)

    ‘cut meat’ means meat which has been cut into small cubes, slices or other individual portions that do not require further cutting by an operator before being bought by the final consumer and that can be directly used by that consumer. This definition does not cover minced meat and trimmings.

  7. (7)

    F4‘third country’ means any country or territory other than:

    1. (a)

      the United Kingdom;

    2. (b)

      the Bailiwick of Jersey;

    3. (c)

      the Bailiwick of Guernsey;

    4. (d)

      the Isle of Man.

SECTION ICompulsory F5... beef labelling system

Article 13General rules

1.

Operators and organisations marketing beef in F6Great Britain shall label it in accordance with this Article.

The compulsory labelling system shall ensure a link between, on the one hand, the identification of the carcass, quarter or pieces of meat and, on the other hand, the individual animal or, where this is sufficient to enable the accuracy of the information on the label to be checked, the group of animals concerned.

2.

The label shall contain the following indications:

(a)

a reference number or reference code ensuring the link between the meat and the animal or animals. This number may be the identification number of the individual animal from which the beef was derived or the identification number relating to a group of animals;

(b)

the approval number of the slaughterhouse at which the animal or group of animals was slaughtered and the F7... country in which the slaughterhouse is established. The indication shall read: ‘Slaughtered in (name of the F7... country) (approval number)’;

(c)

the approval number of the cutting hall which performed the cutting operation on the carcass or group of carcases and the F7... country in which the hall is established. The indication shall read: ‘Cutting in: (name of the F7... country) (approval number)’.

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Operators and organisations shall also indicate on the labels:

  1. (i)

    F9... country of birth;

  2. (ii)

    all F10... countries where fattening took place;

  3. (iii)

    F11... country where slaughter took place;

(b)

However, where the beef is derived from animals born, raised and F12slaughtered in the same country, the indication may be given as ‘Origin: (name of country)’.

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For the purposes of paragraphs 2 and 5, ‘country’, in relation to the United Kingdom, means the United Kingdom as a whole and does not mean England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales individually.

Article 14Derogations from the compulsory labelling system

By way of derogation from Article 13(2)(b) and (c) and from Article 13(5)(a)(i) and (ii), an operator or organisation preparing minced beef shall indicate on the label the words ‘prepared (name of the F15... country)’, depending on where the meat was prepared, and ‘origin’ where the F16country or F17countries involved are not the F16country of preparation.

The obligation provided for in Article 13(5)(a)(iii) shall be applicable to such meat as from the date of application of this Regulation.

However, such operator or organisation may add to the label of the minced beef:

  • one or more of the indications provided for in Article 13, and/or

  • the date on which the meat was prepared.

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F19For the purposes of this Article, ‘country’, in relation to the United Kingdom, means the United Kingdom as a whole and does not mean England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales individually.

F3Article 15Compulsory labelling of beef from third countries

By way of derogation from Article 13, beef imported into the territory of F20Great Britain from a third country for which not all the information provided for in Article 13 is available, shall be labelled with the indication:

‘Origin: non-F21UK’ and ‘Slaughtered in (name of the third country)’.

F22Article 15zaTransitional provisions

By way of derogation from Article 15, beef to which that Article applies that is labelled in accordance with that Article, as it had effect immediately before IP completion day, may be placed on the market until the end of the period of 21 months beginning on the day on which IP completion day falls, and may remain on the market until stocks are exhausted.

SECTION IIF3Voluntary labelling

F23Article 15aGeneral rules

Food information other than that specified in Articles 13, 14 and 15 which is added to labels voluntarily by operators or organisations marketing beef shall be objective, verifiable by the competent authorities and comprehensible for consumers.

That information shall comply with the F24applicable legislation on labelling and in particular Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council17.

Where operators or organisations marketing beef do not respect the obligations referred to in the first and the second paragraphs, the competent authority shall apply appropriate penalties as laid down in Article 22 F25and any other measures adopted by the appropriate authorities to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Regulation.

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F8F8Article 16General rules

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F8Article 17 Voluntary labelling system for beef from third countries

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F8Article 18 Sanctions

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SECTION IIIGeneral provisions

F8F8Article 19Detailed rules

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F8Article 20 Designation of competent authorities

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F8Article 21

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