
Article 1 
The Annex to Decision 96/4/EC is hereby replaced by the Annex to this Decision.
Article 2 
This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Austria.
Done at Brussels, 14 March 2007.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission
ANNEX


ANNEX  1. Grading of pig carcasses shall be carried out by use of the method termed “Zwei-Punkte-Messverfahren (ZP)”.
 2. 
ŷ = 48,7719 – 0,48330 × a + 0,23127 × b

where:

ŷthe estimated percentage of lean meat in the carcass,athickness of fat (including rind) in millimetres on the midline of the split carcass at its thinnest part covering the Musculus glutaeus medius,bthe visible thickness in millimetres of the lumbar muscle on the midline of the split carcass, measured as the shortest connection between the front (cranial) end of the Musculus glutaeus medius and the upper (dorsal) edge of the vertebral canal.

The formula shall be valid for carcasses weighing between 70 and 130 kilograms.

