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UNION SCALES FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF CARCASSES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 10 A. Union scale for the classification of carcasses of bovine animals aged eight months or more I. Definitions The following definitions shall apply: 1. "carcass" means the whole body of a slaughtered animal as presented after bleeding, evisceration and skinning; 2. "half-carcass" means the product obtained by separating the carcass symmetrically through the middle of each cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebra and through the middle of the sternum and the ischiopubic symphysis. II. Categories The bovine carcasses shall be divided into the following categories: Z : carcasses of animals aged from 8 months to less than 12 months; A : carcasses of uncastrated male animals aged from 12 months to less than 24 months; B : carcasses of uncastrated male animals aged from 24 months; C : carcasses of castrated male animals aged from 12 months; D : carcasses of female animals that have calved; E : carcasses of other female animals aged from 12 months. III. Classification The carcasses shall be classified by successive assessment of:

1. Conformation, defined as follows: Development of carcass profiles, in particular the essential parts (round, back, shoulder) 2. Fat cover, defined as follows:

— Amount of fat on the outside of the carcass and in the thoracic cavity Member States are authorised to subdivide each of the classes provided for in points 1 and 2 into a maximum of three subclasses. IV. Presentation Carcasses and half-carcasses shall be presented:

(a) 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;

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

(c) without the sexual organs and the attached muscles and without the udder or the mammary fat. V. Classification and identification

Slaughterhouses approved under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council () shall take measures to ensure that all carcasses or half-carcasses bovine animals aged eight months or more slaughtered in such slaughterhouses and bearing a health mark provided for Article 5(2) in conjunction with Chapter III of Section I of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council () are classified and identified in accordance with the Union scale. Before identification by marking, Member States may grant authorisation to have the external fat removed from the carcasses or half-carcasses if this is justified by the fat cover. B. Union scale for the classification of pig carcasses I. Definition "Carcass" means the body of a slaughtered pig, bled and eviscerated, whole or divided down the mid-line. II. Classification Carcasses shall be divided into classes according to their estimated lean-meat content and classified accordingly: III. Presentation Carcasses shall be presented without tongue, bristles, hooves, genital organs, flare fat, kidneys and diaphragm. IV. Lean-meat content

1. The lean-meat content shall be assessed by means grading methods authorised by the Commission. Only statistically proven assessment methods based on the physical measurement of one or more anatomical parts of the pig carcass may be authorised. Authorisation of grading methods shall be subject to compliance with a maximum tolerance for statistical error in assessment.

2. However, the commercial value of the carcasses shall not be determined solely by their estimated lean-meat content. V. Identification of carcasses Unless otherwise provided for by the Commission, classified carcasses shall be identified by marking in accordance with the Union scale. C. Union scale for the classification of sheep carcasses I. Definition The definitions of "carcass" and "half-carcass" laid down in point A.I shall apply. II. Categories The carcasses shall be divided into the following categories: A : carcasses of sheep under 12 months old, B : carcasses of other sheep. III. Classification

The carcasses shall be classified by way of application of the provisions in point A.III. mutatis mutandis. However, the term "round" in point A.III.1 and in rows 3 and 4 of the table under point A.III.2. shall be replaced by the term "hindquarter". IV. Presentation Carcasses and half-carcasses shall be presented without the head (severed at the atlantooccipital joint), the feet (severed at the carpometacarpal or tarso-metatarsal joints), the tail (severed between the sixth and seventh caudal vertebrae), the udder, the genitalia, the liver and the pluck. Kidneys and kidney fat are included in the carcass. Member States are authorised to permit different presentations when the refeence presentation is not used. V. Identification of carcasses Classified carcasses and half-carcasses shall be identified by marking in accordance with the Union scale.