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‘carcass’: the whole body of a slaughtered animal as presented after bleeding, evisceration and skinning, presented:

without the head and without the feet; the head shall be separated from the carcass at the atloido-occipital joint and the feet shall be severed at the carpametacarpal or tarsometatarsal joints,

without the organs contained in the thoracic and abdominal cavities with or without the kidneys, the kidney fat and the pelvic fat,

without the sexual organs and the attached muscles and without the udder or the mammary fat;

‘half-carcass’: the product obtained by separating the carcass referred to in point (a) symmetrically through the middle of each cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebra and through the middle of the sternum and the ischiopubic symphysis.

without kidneys, kidney fat, or pelvic fat,

without thin skirt or thick skirt,

without the tail,

without the spinal cord,

without cod fat,

without fat on the inside of topside,

without jugular vein and the adjacent fat.

However, Member States shall be authorised to accept different presentations when this reference presentation is not used.

The carcasses of adult bovine animals shall be classified by successive assessment of:

conformation, as defined in Annex I;

fat cover, as defined in Annex II.

The conformation class designated in Annex I by the letter S may be used by Member States to take account, through the optional introduction of a conformation class superior to the existing classes (double-muscled carcasses), of the characteristics or expected development of a particular form of production.
Member States which intend to make use of this possibility shall notify the Commission and the other Member States accordingly.

Member States shall be authorised to subdivide each of the classes provided for in Annexes I and II into a maximum of three subclasses.

The classified carcasses or half-carcasses shall be identified.

Before identification by marking, Member States shall be authorised to have the external fat removed from the carcasses or half-carcasses if this is justified by the fat cover.
The conditions in which removal of the external fat will be applied shall be determined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 43(2) of COMIBVR.

The detailed rules for applying paragraph 1 shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 43(2) of COMIBVR.

Description

All profiles extremely convex; exceptional muscle development (double-muscled carcass type)

All profiles convex to super-convex; exceptional muscle development

Profiles on the whole convex; very good muscle development

Profiles on the whole straight; good muscle development

Profiles straight to concave; average muscle development

All profiles concave to very concave; poor muscle development

Description

None up to low fat cover

Slight fat cover, flesh visible almost everywhere

Flesh, with the exception of the round and shoulder, almost everywhere covered with fat, slight deposits of fat in the thoracic cavity

Flesh covered with fat, but on the round and shoulder still partly visible, some distinctive fat deposits in the thoracic cavity

Entire carcass covered with fat; heavy fat deposits in the thoracic cavity

( OJ L 123, 7.5.1981, p. 3 )

( OJ L 106, 26.4.1991, p. 2 )

This Regulation

Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Article 4(1)

Article 4(2)

Article 4(3), first and second subparagraphs

Article 4(4)

Article 5

Article 6(1), first, second, and third subparagraphs

Article 6(2)

Article 7

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Article 8

Article 9

Annexes I and II

Annex III

Annex IV