Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (S.S.I. No. 87 of 2002). Country/Territory United Kingdom Territorial subdivision Scotland Document type Regulation Date 2002 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Hygiene/sanitary procedures Meat Slaughtering Game Rodents Poultry products Food quality control/food safety Geographical area Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe Entry into force notes Coming into force 1 April 2002, except for regulation 2(2), (3), (4), (5) and (6), which come into force on 1 December 2002. Abstract The amendments have effect to: (a) exempt from the principal Regulations certain local sales of small quantities of poultry meat or rabbit meat by farmers with an annual production of less than 10,000 birds or 10,000 rabbits (reg. 2(2) to (6)); the definition of 'holding' in regulation 2(2) is made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972; (b) prohibit a person from operating a licensed low throughput slaughterhouse unless that person has notified the Food Standards Agency of the number and origin of the birds and rabbits to be slaughtered there (reg. 2(7)); (c) revoke regulation 15(3) (exemption from requirement in respect of transport documentation) and make consequential amendments to regulation 15(1) and (2) (reg. 2(8) and (9)); (d) amend regulation 18(1)(a)(i) (duty of occupier to keep records) to require the occupier of licensed premises to record the origin of meat entering the premises (reg. 2(10)); (e) amend the requirements in Schedule 5, Part I, paragraph 5 in relation to refrigeration equipment in low throughput slaughterhouses and low throughput cutting premises (reg. 2(11)); (f) correct an error in Schedule 8, paragraph 11 (reg. 2(12)); and (g) amend the requirements in Schedule 14, paragraph 1(a) in relation to the transport of fresh meat of birds from low throughput slaughterhouses and low throughput cutting premises (reg. 2(13)). Full text English Website www.opsi.gov.uk References - Legislation Implements Council Directive 91/494/EEC animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in and imports from third countries of fresh poultrymeat. Legislation | European Union | 1991 Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Standards, International trade, Poultry products Source: FAO, FAOLEX Council Directive 71/118/EEC on health problems affecting trade in fresh poultrymeat. Legislation | European Union | 1971 Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Meat, Poultry products, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Slaughtering, Inspection, Internal trade Source: FAO, FAOLEX Amends Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (S.I. No. 540 of 1995). Legislation | United Kingdom | 1995 Keyword: Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Poultry products, Slaughtering, Game, Inspection, Authorization/permit, Food quality control/food safety Source: FAO, FAOLEX