Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 of 20 April 2017 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Union scales for the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcasses and as regards the reporting of market prices of certain categories of carcasses and live animals (c. 1182)

CHAPTER I U.K. F1 ... SCALES FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF CARCASSES

Article 7 U.K. Classification and weighing

1. The classification referred to in points A.II, A.III, B.II, C.II and C.III of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall be carried out in the slaughterhouse at the time of determining the warm weight of the carcass.

2. The [F2 appropriate authority] may authorise classification before weighing in accordance with Article 11 of this Regulation if certain grading methods applied in the territory of a [F3 constituent nation] require this.

3. The carcasses shall be weighed as soon as possible after slaughter and not later than:

(a) 60 minutes after the animal has been stuck, as regards bovine animals and sheep;

(b) 45 minutes after the animal has been stuck, as regards pigs.

4. In the case of pigs, if in a given slaughterhouse, the 45-minute time period between the sticking and the weighing of the carcasses cannot generally be observed, the competent authority F4 ... may allow that the deduction of 2 % as referred to in Article 14(3):

(a) shall be reduced by 0,1 per cent units for every additional quarter of an hour or part thereof that has elapsed when the period between sticking and weighing exceeds the 45 minutes;

(b) can be increased by certain per cent units established by the [F5 appropriate authority] when the period between sticking and weighing is shorter than 45 minutes. In this case the deduction shall be justified on the basis of scientific data.

5. In cases where beef or sheep automated grading methods referred to in Article 10 fail to classify carcasses, classification of these carcasses shall take place on the day of slaughter or, if the required period between sticking and weighing has expired on the day after the slaughter, classification shall take place as soon as possible on that day.

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in Art. 7(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 6(12)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Art. 7(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 6(12)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Words in Art. 7(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 6(13)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5 Words in Art. 7(4)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 6(13)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in Ch. 1 heading omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 6(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)