ANNEX IBaseline criteria for determining the baseline frequency rates for the identity checks and physical checks of the consignments of animals, products of animal origin, germinal products, animal by-products, derived products, hay and straw and composite products

Baseline criteria for determining baseline frequency rates for identity checks and physical checks

Baseline frequency rates that apply to

Risk category

Category of animals or goods6

identity checks

physical checks

I

Animals

100 %

100 %

II

  • Minced meat, mechanically separated meat and meat preparations for human consumption (HC)

  • Poultry meat for HC

  • Rabbit meat, game meat, and their meat products for HC

  • Eggs for HC

  • Egg products for HC which are preserved at frozen or chilled temperatures

  • Milk for HC

  • Dairy products and colostrum-based products for HC, which are preserved at frozen or chilled temperatures

  • Fishery products from aquaculture and bivalve molluscs for HC, which are not in hermetically sealed containers intended to render them stable at ambient temperature

  • Animal by-products and derived products, for feeding of farmed animals

100 %

30 %

III

  • Meat other than meat mentioned in Category II, and meat products derived from such meat, for HC

  • Rendered animal fat and greaves for HC

  • Poultry meat products for HC

  • Egg products for HC, other than those mentioned in Category II

  • Dairy products and colostrum-based products for HC other than those mentioned in Category II

  • Fishery products other than those mentioned in Category II

  • Honey and other apiculture products for HC

  • Composite products

  • Hatching eggs

  • Organic fertilisers and soil improvers, derived from animal by-products

  • Frog legs and snails for HC

  • Insects for HC

100 %

15 %

IV

  • Gelatine and collagen for HC

  • Casings

  • Semen and embryos

  • Animal by-products and derived products, other than those mentioned in Category II and Category III

100 %

5 %

V

  • Highly refined products for HC

  • Hay and straw

  • Other goods than those mentioned in Category II, Category III and Category IV

100 %

1 %

The frequency rates for physical checks of consignments of trade samples shall be in accordance with the description of the categories of goods provided in this Annex.