
Article 1 
This Regulation lays down rules on the indication of the country of origin or place of provenance on the label of fresh, chilled and frozen meat of swine, meat of sheep or goats and meat of poultry, falling within the respective Combined Nomenclature codes listed in Annex XI to Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011.
Article 2 

1. For the purposes of this Regulation, the definition of ‘food business operator’ in point (3) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, the definition of ‘establishment’ in point (c) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as well as the definitions of ‘minced meat’, ‘slaughterhouse’ and ‘cutting plant’ laid down respectively in points 1.13, 1.16 and 1.17 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council shall apply.
2. The following definitions shall also apply:
(a) ‘trimmings’ means small pieces of meat, falling within the Combined Nomenclature codes listed in Annex XI to Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, recognised as fit for human consumption and produced exclusively during trimming operations, when boning of carcases or when cutting up of meat;
(b) ‘batch’ means meat, falling within the Combined Nomenclature codes listed in Annex XI to Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, obtained from a single species, with or without bone, whether or not cut or minced, that has been cut, minced or packed under practically identical conditions.
(c) ‘country’, in relation to the United Kingdom, means the United Kingdom as a whole and does not mean England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales individually.
Article 3 

1. Food business operators, at each stage of production and distribution of the meat referred to in Article 1, shall have in place and use an identification and registration system.
2. That system shall be applied in such a way as to ensure:
(a) the link between the meat and the animal or group of animals from which it has been obtained, at the slaughter stage this link being the responsibility of the slaughterhouse; and
(b) the transmission of the information relating to the indications referred to in Articles 5, 6 or 7, as appropriate, together with the meat, to the operators at the subsequent stages of production and distribution.Each food business operator shall be responsible for the application of the identification and registration system, as laid down in the first subparagraph, within the stage of production and distribution at which it operates.The food business operator who packs or labels the meat in accordance with Articles 5, 6 or 7 shall ensure the correlation between the batch code identifying the meat supplied to the consumer or mass caterer and the relevant batch or batches of meat from which the pack or labelled batch is constituted. All packs with the same batch code shall correspond to the same indications in accordance with Articles 5, 6 or 7.
3. The system referred to in paragraph 1 shall record, in particular, the arrival at and the departure from the establishment of the food business operator, of animals, carcases or cuts, as appropriate, and ensure a correlation between arrivals and departures.
Article 4 

1. The size of the group of animals referred to in Article 3 shall be defined by:
(a) the number of carcases cut together and constituting one batch for the cutting plant concerned in case of cutting of carcases;
(b) the number of carcases the meat of which constitutes one batch for the cutting or mincing plant concerned in case of further cutting or mincing.
2. The size of a batch shall not exceed the production of one day in a single establishment.
3. Except the case where Article 7 is applied, when constituting the batches, the establishments in which meat is cut or minced shall ensure that all carcasses in a batch correspond to animals to the meat of which identical labelling indications apply in accordance with Article 5(1) or with Article 5(2).
Article 5 

1. The label of meat referred to in Article 1 intended for supplying to the final consumer or to mass caterers shall contain the following indications:
(a) the ... country in which the rearing took place indicated as ‘Reared in: (name of the ... country)’, in accordance with the following criteria:
((i)) for swine:

— in case the animal is slaughtered older than 6 months, the ... country in which the last rearing period of at least 4 months took place,
— in case the animal is slaughtered younger than 6 months and with a live weight of at least 80 kilograms, the ... country in which the rearing period after the animal has reached 30 kilograms took place,
— in case the animal is slaughtered younger than 6 months and with a live weight of less than 80 kilograms, the ... country in which the whole rearing period took place;
((ii)) for sheep and goats: the ... country in which the last rearing period of at least 6 months took place or, in case the animal is slaughtered younger than 6 months, the ... country in which the whole rearing period took place,
((iii)) for poultry: the ... country in which the last rearing period of at least one month took place or, in case the animal is slaughtered younger than one month, the ... country in which the whole rearing period after the animal was placed for fattening took place;
(b) the ... country in which the slaughter took place indicated as ‘Slaughtered in: (name of the ... country)’; and
(c) the batch code identifying the meat supplied to the consumer or mass caterer.Where the rearing period referred to in point (a) is not attained in any of the ... countries where the animal was reared, the indication referred to in point (a) shall be replaced by ‘Reared in: several Member States of the EU’ or, where the meat or the animals have been imported into the Union, by  ‘Reared in several countries’.However, where the rearing period referred to in point (a) is not attained in any of the ... countries where the animal was reared, the indication referred to in point (a) may be replaced by ‘Reared in: (list of the ... countries where the animal was reared)’ if the food business operator proves to the satisfaction of the competent authority that the animal was reared in those ... countries.
2. The indications referred to in points (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 may be replaced by the indication ‘Origin: (name of ... country)’ if the food business operator proves to the satisfaction of the competent authority that the meat referred to in Article 1 has been obtained from animals born, reared and slaughtered in one single ... country.
3. Where several pieces of meat, of the same or of different species, correspond to different labelling indications in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 and are presented in the same pack to the consumer or mass caterer, the label shall indicate:
(a) the list of the relevant ... countries in accordance with paragraphs 1 or 2, for each species;
(b) the batch code identifying the meat supplied to the consumer or mass caterer.
4. In this Article, ‘country’ includes:
(a) the Bailiwick of Guernsey;
(b) the Bailiwick of Jersey;
(c) the Isle of Man.
Article 6 
By way of derogation from point (a) of Article 5(1), the label of meat referred to in Article 1 imported for placing on the  market in Great Britain, and for which the information provided for in point (a) of Article 5(1) is not available, shall contain the indication ‘Reared in:  non-UK’ and ‘Slaughtered in: (Name of the ... country where the animal was slaughtered)’.
In this Article, ‘country’ means any country, other than the United Kingdom, and includes:
(a) the Bailiwick of Guernsey;
(b) the Bailiwick of Jersey;
(c) the Isle of Man.
Article 7 
By way of derogation from points (a) and (b) of Article 5(1), from Article 5(2) and from Article 6, as regards minced meat and trimmings, the following indications may be applied:

((a)) ...
((b)) ...
((c)) ‘Reared and slaughtered in:  non-UK’, where minced meat or trimmings are produced exclusively from meat imported into the  United Kingdom;
((d)) ‘Reared in:  non-UK’ and ‘Slaughtered  in: UK’ where minced meat or trimmings are produced exclusively from meat obtained from animals imported into the  United Kingdom  as animals for slaughter and slaughtered in  the United Kingdom;
((e)) in a case where neither the indication in point (c) or (d) would be accurate, an indication of rearing and slaughtering as follows:

((i)) ‘Reared in:’ followed, as appropriate, by ‘UK’, ‘non-UK’ or ‘UK and non-UK’; and
((ii)) ‘Slaughtered in:’ followed, as appropriate, by ‘UK’, ‘non-UK’ or ‘UK and non-UK’.
Article 8 
Food business operators may supplement the indications referred to in Articles 5, 6 or 7 with additional information concerning the provenance of the meat.
The additional information referred to in the first paragraph shall not be contradictory to the indications referred to in Articles 5, 6 or 7, and shall comply with the rules of Chapter V of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011.
Article 9 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 April 2015. It shall not apply to meat which has been lawfully placed on the Union market before 1 April 2015 until the stocks are exhausted. 
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Done at Brussels, 13 December 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO