Cutting premises

Cutting Premises

Cutting plant (5):

Cutting plant

CP= Cutting plant.

Slaughterhouse and cutting plant

the recipient cutting premises shall maintain a record of the amount, type and origin of consignments received in accordance with this Directive;

Cutting plants must have at least:

CONDITIONS FOR THE APPROVAL OF CUTTING PLANTS

establishment means an approved slaughterhouse, an approved cutting plant, an approved cold store, an approved rewrapping centre or a unit grouping together several such establishments.

in so far as this operation is carried out in the cutting plant:

In deciding whether a slaughterhouse, a cutting plant or a cold store situated outside a slaughterhouse or plant may appear on one of the lists referred to in paragraph 1 particular account shall be taken of:

SPECIAL CONDITIONS FOR THE APPROVAL OF CUTTING PLANTS

a thermometer or telethermometer recorder in the cutting room;

Cutting plants shall be supervised by an official veterinarian.

cutting plants, in the case of vertebral column of bovine animals;

the meat was cut in an approved cutting plant;

In addition to the general requirements, cutting plants must have at least:

'establishment' means an approved slaughterhouse, an approved cutting plant or an approved cold store, situated outside such approved slaughterhouses and plants, which has been approved by the third country and which appears on the list or lists drawn up in accordance with Article 4.

in the centre, the veterinary approval number of the cutting plant.

The uneviscerated carcases will be transported to the following cutting plant:.

A slaughterhouse, a cutting plant or a cold store situated outside a slaughterhouse or cutting plant may only appear on the list or lists provided for in paragraph 1 if it is situated in one of the countries referred to in Article 3 (1) and if it has, in addition, been officially approved for exports to the Community by the competent authorities of the third country.

CONDITIONS FOR THE APPROVAL OF COLD STORES LOCATED OUTSIDE THE SLAUGHTERHOUSES AND THE CUTTING PLANTS

Cold stores located outside the slaughterhouses and the cutting plants must have at least:

derogations may also be granted by the competent authority in accordance with Annex II in the case of cutting plants which are not situated in an approved establishment and which are approved pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Directive 64/433/EEC, provided the cutting plant does not handle more than three tonnes per week, subject to compliance with the temperature requirement laid down in point 49 of Chapter VIII of Annex I.

removal of spinal cord of ovine and caprine animals in cutting plants specifically authorised for this purpose;

have been cut and/or boned in cutting plants approved and supervised in accordance with Article 6;

Address(es) and veterinary approval number(s) of the approved cutting plant(s):.

harvesting of cheek meat and tongue from bovine, ovine and caprine heads in cutting plants specifically authorised for this purpose;

Cutting into pieces smaller than half-carcases and quarters or boning shall only be allowed in cutting plants.

a room for packaging, where such operations are carried out in the cutting plant, unless the conditions provided for in point 74 of Chapter XIV are fulfilled.

a room suitably equipped for carrying out a trichinoscopic test, where such test is carried out in the cutting plant;

the health mark on the large packaging shall be destroyed when the large packaging is opened in cutting premises under the supervision of the official veterinarian;

Fresh meat intended for cutting must as soon as it is brought in, be placed in the cutting plant and, until used, in the room provided for in paragraph 2 (a);

cuts smaller than quarters or boned meat coming from cutting plants inspected pursuant to Article 4 and approved for this purpose in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 29. Such meat shall, in addition to the conditions laid down in

When cutting plants use fresh meat other than poultrymeat, such meat must conform to the relevant standards of Directives 64/433/EEC (3), 91/495/EEC (4) and 92/45/EEC (5).

The practical training shall take place in slaughterhouses, cutting plants, cold stores and inspection posts for fresh meat or, for the pre-slaughter inspection, in a holding.

In particular, he must be able on request to inform the official veterinarian responsible for supervision of the source of the meat brought into his cutting plant and the origin of the animals slaughtered.

Fresh meat intended for cutting must, as soon as it is brought in, be placed in the cutting room and, until cut up, in the room provided for in point 15 (a) of Chapter III.

Approved cutting plants, approved rewrapping centres and approved cold stores must be supervised by a member of the inspection team referred to in the third subparagraph of Article 8 (2) of this Directive.

Without prejudice to point 19 of Chapter V, meat which does not fulfil the requirements of Article 3 (I) (B) (1) of this Directive may not be placed in approved cutting plants unless placed in special storage areas;

Consignments of carcases, including those which have had parts removed pursuant to point 53 (b) of Chapter IX, shall be dispatched from an approved slaughterhouse to approved cutting premises for cutting therein subject to the following conditions:

The operator of a cutting plant or of a rewrapping centre, the owner or his agent must keep records of fresh poultrymeat entering and leaving the establishment, specifying the nature of the poultrymeat received.

Derogations from this requirements may be granted by the competent authority on a case-by-case basis where meat is removed immediately from such slaughterhouses for delivery to cutting plants or butcher shops in the immediate vicinity of the slaughterhouse, provided that transportation takes not more than one hour.

health inspection of fresh meat held in the cutting plant and intended for intra-Community trade; - health inspection of fresh meat intended for intra-Community trade, prior to cutting and when it leaves the cutting plant;

Fresh meat which does not fulfil the conditions of this Directive may be placed in approved cutting plants only on condition that it is stored there in special places; it must be cut up in other places or at other times than fresh meat which fulfils those conditions.

in cutting plants approved in accordance with Article 6, a member of the inspection team referred to in the third subparagraph of paragraph 2 is present at least once a day when meat is being worked on, to check the general hygiene of the plant and the register of fresh meat entering and leaving it;

MODEL HEALTH ATTESTATION for the carcases of poultry for delayed evisceration or for carcases of ducks and geese reared for the production of 'foie gras', stunned, bled and plucked on the fattening farm and transported to a cutting plant which is equipped with a separate room for evisceration

Whereas each consignment of fresh meat admitted to a Member State following the import inspection must; in the case of fresh meat re-routed to another Member State, with the exception of meat cut up after importation in an approved cutting plant, be accompanied by a certificate officially stating that the prescribed import requirements have been fulfilled;

Consignments of carcases, including those which have had parts removed pursuant to point 53 (b) of Chapter IX, shall be dispatched from an approved slaughterhouse, rewrapping centre or cutting premises to restaurants, canteens and institutions for direct supply to the final user after heat treatment, subject to the following conditions: