European Communities (Beef Carcase Classification) Regulations, 1994. Country/Territory Ireland Document type Regulation Date 1994 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Slaughtering Classification/declassification Inspection Meat Food quality control/food safety Geographical area Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe Abstract These Regulations pertain to the labelling, stamping and classification of adult bovine animals slaughtered at meat export premises. These Regulations also concern the identification of carcases by reference to conformation, fat class, sex category and weight. Immediately after the determinations referred to in regulation 3 of these Regulations have been made in relation to a carcase the slaughterer shall record in writing those determinations on a daily classification sheet. The slaughterer shall establish and operate a system of identification of carcases that is adequate to enable the information in relation to the conformation, fat cover, categories and weights of carcases and the prices paid by him to vendors for the live bovine animals from which the carcases derive to be related to the animals from which the carcases are derived and to enable each carcase to be identified. Full text English Website www.bailii.org References - Legislation Implements Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1208/81 determining the Community scale for the classification of carcases of adult bovine animals. Legislation | European Union | 1981 Keyword: Meat, Cattle, Classification/declassification, Inspection, Food quality control/food safety Source: FAO, FAOLEX Repealed by European Communities (Beef Carcase Classification) Regulations, 2004 (S.I. No. 45 of 2004). Legislation | Ireland | 2004 Keyword: Slaughtering, Classification/declassification, Inspection, Meat, Food quality control/food safety Source: FAO, FAOLEX