
CHAPTER I
Article 1 

1. The slaughterhouses, the classification agencies or the qualified classifiers provided for in Article 9(1)(a) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 carrying out the classification in accordance with points A.II, A.III, B.II, C.II and C.III of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall communicate to the supplier of the animal, the results of the classification. That communication shall be, in paper form or by electronic means and shall indicate per carcass:
(a) the classification results by means of the corresponding letters and figures referred to in points A.II, A.III, B.II, C.II and C.III of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, respectively;
(b) the carcass weight established in accordance with Article 7 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182, specifying whether it relates to the warm or cold weight;
(c) the carcass presentation applied at the moment of weighing and classifying on the hook; the indication of the carcass presentation shall not be compulsory if only one single carcass presentation is allowed within the territory or a region of the Member State concerned in accordance with the national legislation;
(d) where applicable, that classification has been carried out using an automated grading technique.
2. Member States may require that the communication referred to in paragraph 1(a) includes subclasses, where such information is available.
Article 2 

1. On-the-spot checks shall be carried out in all slaughterhouses applying the compulsory carcass classification as referred to in the first paragraph of Article 10 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.
2. The performance of the qualified classifiers and the applied grading methods as well as the classification, presentation and identification of the carcasses in the slaughterhouses referred to in points A.II, A.III, A.V, B.II, B.V, C.II, C.III, C.IV and C.V of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall be checked on the spot and without prior warning by a body independent of the slaughterhouses, the classification agencies and the qualified classifiers.The requirement to be independent of the classification agencies and the qualified classifiers shall not apply where the competent authority of a Member State itself carries out such controls.
3. Where the body responsible for on-the-spot checks does not fall under the authority of a competent authority, the competent authority shall verify that the on-the-spot checks are carried out correctly at least once a year, by means of physical supervision under the same conditions.
Article 3 

1. Where a risk assessment is carried out in a Member State to determine the minimum requirements for on-the-spot checks, the frequency of those checks and the minimum number of carcasses to be checked shall be determined on the basis of such risk assessment, particularly taking into account the number of animals slaughtered in the slaughterhouses concerned and the findings during previous on-the-spot checks in these slaughterhouses.
2. Where a risk assessment is not carried out in a Member State, on-the-spot checks shall be performed as follows:
(a) in all slaughterhouses which slaughter 150 or more bovine animals aged eight months or more per week as an annual average, at least twice every three months; each on-the-spot check shall relate to at least 40 carcasses selected at random or, if less than 40 carcasses are available, to all carcasses;
(b) in all slaughterhouses which slaughter 500 pigs or more per week as an annual average, at least twice every three months;
(c) Member States shall determine the frequency of the on-the-spot checks and the minimum number of carcasses to be checked for slaughterhouses which:
((i)) slaughter less than 150 bovine animals aged eight months or more per week as an annual average;
((ii)) slaughter less than 500 pigs per week as an annual average;
((iii)) carry out sheep carcass classification.
3. The on-the-spot checks shall verify in particular:
(a) the category of the beef and sheep carcass;
(b) the classification, weighing and marking of the carcasses;
(c) the accuracy of the beef and sheep automated grading methods by using a system of points and limits that determines the ongoing accuracy of the grading method;
(d) the carcass presentation;
(e) if appropriate, the daily function test as well as any other technical aspects of grading methods;
(f) the daily control reports as referred to in Article 12(1)(b) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182.
Article 4 

1. The competent authority shall make and keep reports on the on-the-spot checks provided for in Article 2.
2. In cases where a significant number of incorrect classifications, presentations or identifications or where the application of automated grading technique failing to comply with the rules is ascertained during the on-the-spot checks provided for in Article 2, the licences or approvals granted to qualified classifiers or automated grading technique as provided for in Article 9 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 may be revoked. In cases of an error on category, conformation or fat cover the body responsible for on-the-spot checks may ask the operator to rectify it on the marking of the carcass and in the documents concerned.
CHAPTER II
Article 5 

1. Where the presentation of the carcass at the moment of weighing and classifying on the hook, differs from that provided for in Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and in Article 6 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182, the warm weight of the carcass shall be adjusted by application of the corrective factors.For carcasses of pigs, bovine animals aged less than eight months and sheep the corrective factors shall be specified by the Member States.For carcasses of bovine animals aged eight months or more the corrective factors are as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
2. Where the adjustments referred to in paragraph 1 are the same throughout the territory of a Member State, they may be calculated at national level. Where such adjustments vary from one slaughterhouse to another, they shall be calculated at slaughterhouse level.
Article 6 
Member States shall decide whether their territory is to comprise a single region or whether to divide it into more than one region. This decision shall be taken on the basis of:

((a)) the size of their territory;
((b)) the existence, if any, of administrative divisions;
((c)) geographical variations in prices.
For the purpose of recording of market prices for beef carcasses, the United Kingdom shall comprise at least two regions, namely Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which may be subdivided on the basis of the criteria referred to in the first paragraph.
Article 7 
Recording of market prices on the basis of the Union scales referred to in Article 10 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall relate to the categories specified in point A.II of Annex IV to that Regulation and to the following conformation and fat cover classes:

((a)) carcasses of animals aged from eight months to less than 12 months: U2, U3, R2, R3, O2, O3;
((b)) carcasses of uncastrated male animals aged from 12 months to less than 24 months: U2, U3, R2, R3, O2, O3;
((c)) carcasses of uncastrated male animals aged from 24 months: R3;
((d)) carcasses of castrated male animals aged from 12 months: U2, U3, U4, R3, R4, O3, O4;
((e)) carcasses of female animals that have calved: R3, R4, O2, O3, O4, P2, P3;
((f)) carcasses of other female animals aged from 12 months: U2, U3, U4, R2, R3, R4, O2, O3, O4.
Article 8 

1. The market price to be reported for carcasses of bovine animals aged eight months or more as referred to in Article 14 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 shall be recorded by:
(a) the operator of any slaughterhouse which annually slaughters 20 000 or more bovine animals aged eight months or more;
(b) the operator of any slaughterhouse which is designated by the Member State and which annually slaughters less than 20 000 bovine animals aged eight months or more;
(c) any natural or legal person who sends 10 000 or more bovine animals aged eight months or more for slaughter annually; and
(d) any natural or legal person who is designated by the Member State and who sends less than 10 000 bovine animals aged eight months or more for slaughter annually.
2. Member State shall ensure that prices are recorded for at least:
(a) 25 % of the slaughterings in those regions which together cover at least 75 % of the total slaughterings in that Member State; and
(b) 30 % of the bovine animals aged eight months or more slaughtered in that Member State.
3. The prices recorded in accordance with paragraph 1 shall relate to bovine animals aged eight months or more slaughtered during the recording period concerned, and be based on the cold weight of the carcass as referred to in Article 14(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182.
4. The prices recorded for each class referred to in Article 7 of this Regulation shall indicate the average carcass weight to which they relate and whether or not they have been adjusted by application of each of the factors referred to in Article 5.
Article 9 
Recording of market prices on the basis of the Union scales referred to in Article 10 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall relate to the following weight classes:

((a)) carcasses of 60 kg to less than 120 kg: S, E;
((b)) carcasses of 120 kg to less than 180 kg: R.
Article 10 
The market price to be reported for carcasses of pigs and bovine animals aged less than eight months as referred to in Articles 14 and 15 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 shall be recorded on representative markets by the Member State or by the operators of any slaughterhouse or by natural or legal persons who send such animals for slaughter and are designated by the Member State.
Article 11 
The market price to be reported for carcasses of sheep aged less than 12 months as referred to in Article 15 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 shall be recorded on representative markets by the Member State or by the operators of any slaughterhouse or by natural or legal persons who send such animals for slaughter and are designated by the Member State.
Recording of market prices shall relate to the following weight categories:

((a)) carcasses of light lambs weighing less than 13 kg carcass weight;
((b)) carcasses of heavy lambs weighing 13 kg carcass weight or more.
Article 12 
The market prices to be reported for each type of male calves aged between eight days and four weeks, store cattle and piglets of approximately 25 kg in live weight as referred to in Article 16 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 shall be recorded on representative markets by the Member State or by natural or legal persons who trade these animals and are designated by the Member State.
Article 13 

1. In the absence of price recording on representative markets or by operators of slaughterhouses or by the natural or legal persons referred to in Articles 10, 11 and 12, the prices shall be recorded by chambers of agriculture, quotation centres, farmers` cooperatives or farmers` unions in the Member State concerned.However, where a Member State has established a committee in the relevant region, to determine prices for that region, and where the membership of such committee is divided equally between buyers and sellers of bovine animals aged eight months or more and their carcasses, that Member State may use the prices determined by that committee for the calculation of the prices to be reported.
2. Where flat-rate purchases account for more than 35 % of total slaughterings of bovine animals aged eight months or more in a Member State, that Member State may establish criteria to exclude certain consignments from the calculation of prices where those consignments disproportionally influence the prices.However, where flat-rate purchases account for less than 35 % of total slaughterings of bovine animals aged eight months or more in the Member State, that Member State may decide not to take the prices for such purchases into account in the calculations of prices.In the cases referred to in the second subparagraph a representative national price for each class shall be calculated by the competent authority, taking into account the factors referred to in Article 14 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 and in Article 5 of this Regulation.
Article 14 
The prices recorded in accordance with Articles 7 to 12 in the period from Monday to Sunday of each week shall:

((a)) be reported to the competent authority, in paper form or by electronic means, by the operator of the slaughterhouse or natural or legal person referred to in Articles 8, 10, 11 and 12 within the time limit set by the Member State; or
((b)) at the option of the Member State, be made available to its competent authority at the slaughterhouse or the premises of the natural or legal person referred to in Articles 8, 10, 11 and 12.
Article 15 

1. The reporting of market prices and notifications referred to in Article 13 and 25 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182, respectively shall be made in accordance with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1185 with the exception of the notifications provided for in Article 25(3) and (5) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182.
2. The prices shall relate to the period from Monday to Sunday of the preceding week to that in which they are notified.
CHAPTER III
Article 16 

1. The Union Inspection Committee (‘the Committee’) shall be responsible for carrying out on-the-spot inspections covering:
(a) the application of the Union scales for the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcasses;
(b) the recording of market prices according to those classification scales;
(c) the classification, identification and marking of products within the framework of the buying-in under public intervention in the beef and veal sector.
2. The Committee shall be composed of at most:
(a) three Commission experts, one of whom shall act as chairman of the Committee;
(b) one expert from the Member State concerned;
(c) eight experts from other Member States.The Member States shall appoint experts on the basis of their independence and ability, particularly in matters of classification of carcasses and recording of market prices and of the specific nature of the work to be carried out.Experts shall not under any circumstances use for personal purposes or divulge information obtained in connection with the work of the Committee.
3. Travel and subsistence expenses of members of the Committee linked to the on-the-spot inspections shall be borne by the Commission in accordance with the rules applicable to the reimbursement of travel and subsistence expenses of persons unconnected with the Commission who are called upon by it to act as experts.
Article 17 

1. On-the-spot inspections shall be carried out at slaughterhouses, meat markets, intervention centres, price quotation centres and regional and central services implementing the provisions concerning:
(a) the application of the Union scales for the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcasses;
(b) the recording of market prices according to those classification scales;
(c) the classification, identification and marking of products within the framework of the buying-in under public intervention in the beef and veal sector.
2. The on-the-spot inspections shall be carried out at regular intervals in Member States and their frequency may vary, in particular, according to the relative volume of beef, pig and sheep production in the visited Member States or to irregularities linked to the application of the classification scales and reporting of market prices.Representatives of the visited Member State may take part in the on-the-spot-inspections.Each Member State shall organise the on-the-spot inspections to be carried out on its territory according to the requirements set by the Commission. To that end, the Member State shall forward to the Commission, 60 days before the on-the-spot inspections at the latest, the draft programme of the proposed on-the-spot inspections. The Commission may request any amendment to the programme.The Commission shall inform Member States, as far in advance as possible before each on-the-spot inspection, of the amendments to the programme and the conduct thereof.
Article 18 
On completion of each visit, the members of the Committee and the representatives of the visited Member State shall meet to consider the results. The members of the Committee shall draw conclusions from the on-the-spot inspection concerning:

((a)) the application of the Union scales for the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcasses;
((b)) the recording of market prices according to those classification scales.
The Committee chairman shall draw up a report on the on-the-spot inspections conducted containing the conclusions referred to in the first subparagraph. The report shall be sent at the earliest possibility to the inspected Member State and to the other Member States, subsequently.
In the case of reports on on-the-spot inspection referred to in the second subparagraph carried out in a Member State, the Commission shall provide the relevant competent authority with a draft report for comments, take those comments into consideration in preparing the final report and publish the competent authority's comments together with the final report.
When the report on the on-the-spot inspections conducted notes shortcomings in the various fields of activity which were the subject of the inspection, or makes recommendations with a view to improving operations, the Member States shall inform the Commission of all changes which are envisaged or have taken place not later than three months after the date on which the report was transmitted.
CHAPTER IV
Article 19 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 11 July 2018.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 20 April 2017.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX

Percentage Decrease Increase
Fat classes 1-2 3 4-5 1 2 3 4 5
Kidneys – 0,4 
Kidney fat – 1,75 – 2,5 – 3,5 
Pelvic fat – 0,5 
Liver – 2,5 
Thin skirt – 0,4 
Thick skirt – 0,4 
Tail – 0,4 
Spinal cord – 0,05 
Mammary fat – 1,0 
Testicles – 0,3 
Cod fat – 0,5 
Fat on inside of topside – 0,3 
Jugular vein and adjacent fat – 0,3 
Removal of external fat  0 0 + 2 + 3 + 4
Removal of brisket fat to leave a covering of fat (the muscle tissue must not be exposed)  0 + 0,2 + 0,2 + 0,3 + 0,4
Removal of flank fat adjacent to the cod fat  0 + 0,3 + 0,4 + 0,5 + 0,6