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Fourth Act amending the Meat Labelling Act.

Country/Territory
Germany
Document type
Legislation
Date
2015
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Bundesgesetzblatt, Part I, No. 29, 16 July 2015, pp. 1165 and 1166.
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Meat Cattle Data collection/reporting Access-to-information
Geographical area
Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Western Europe
Abstract

The present Act amends the Meat Labelling Act of 26 February 1998 (BGBl. I p. 380). In particular, the Act rewords article 4 on Responsibility for monitoring conferring to the Federal Institute for Food and Agriculture this task; as well as article 6 on Exchange of information. Here too the Federal Institute of Agriculture and Food shall submit all necessary and required data to the competent authorities of the Länder. The text consists of 3 articles.

Full text
German

References - Legislation

Amends

Meat Labelling Act.

Legislation | Germany | 1998 (2016)

Keyword: Meat, Cattle, Packaging/labelling, Standards, Institution, Royalties/fees, Data collection/reporting, Offences/penalties

Source: FAO, FAOLEX