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                                                         Government of Georgia  
 
                                                                decree  N 
Rule  for indication of the country of origin or place of provenance for fresh, chilled and frozen 
meat of swine, sheep, goats and poultry  
 
Article 1.   Based on the  first part of Article 56 of the Product Safety and Free Circulation 
Code;  2 part of  Article 58 , 2 part of  Article 58  and 2 part of Article 75 of the Food / Animal 
Feed Safety, Veteri nary and Plant Protection Code a pprove the rules for indication of the 
country of origin or place of provenance for fresh, chilled and frozen meat of swine, sheep, 
goats and poultry  
Article 2. Decree   come into force .......  
 
 
 
Prime Minister                                                                                              Irakli Gharibashvili  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Rules for indication of the country of origin or place of provenance for fresh, chilled and 
frozen meat of swine, sheep, goats and poultry  
 
Article 1 . General provision  
Rules for indication of the country of origin or place of provenance for fresh, chilled and 
frozen meat of swine, sheep, goats and poultry  establishs  by a decree  of the Government of 
Georgia - "Technical Regulation - on the provision of food information to consumers " Annex 
N10 "Meat Species,  for which is  compulsory to indicate the place of origin or country . The 
rule lays down indicat ions the country of origin or place of origin on the label and the 
obligations of the business operator.  
Article 2. Aim and Scope of regulation  
1. The aim of this rule is to protect human life, health and economic interests of the 
consumers . 
2. This Rule will be spread to the following groups of meat as defined by the  Commodity 
code (HS code) , subject to state control:  
A) Pork,  fresh, chilled or frozen - (HS code) Code 0203  
B) sheep  or goat mea t, fresh, chilled or frozen - (HS code) code 0204;  
C) (HS code) Code 0105 - Fresh, chilled or frozen poultry specified in (HS code) Code 
0207;  
3. State control of the requirements defined by this Rule, in accordance with the 
requirements define d by th e legislation of Georgia is carried out by the  LEPL 
National Food Agency which operates in  the territory of Georgia, and a legal entity 
under public law - the Revenue Service while goods cross the customs border of 
Georgia.  
Article 3. Definition  
The foll owing definitions shall also apply:  
A) Establishment - A place where food  is produced, processed and/or distributed ; 
B) Cutting plant/Establishment - A place where meat is cut and/or boned ; 
C) Minced meat – Swine, sheep, goats and poultry   boned meat that has been minced into 
fragments and contains less than 1 % salt ; D) Trimmings  - small pieces of  swine, sheep, goats and poultry   meat recognised as fit for 
human consumption produced exclusively during trimming operations during the boning  of 
carcasses and/or the cutting up of meat;  
E) Batch - swine, sheep, goats and poultry  meat 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 ; 
2. For the purposes of this Rule, the terms defined by the Code of Food / Animal Feed Safety, 
Veterinary and Plant Protection and the legislation of Georgia will be used.  
 
Article 4. Traceability  
1. Food business operators, at each stage of production and di stribution of the meat referred 
to in part 2 of Article 2 of this rule, shall have in place and use an identification and 
registration system.  
2. That system shall be applied  in paragraph 1 of this Article in such a way as to ensure:  
A) the link between t he 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;  
B) the transmission of the information relating to the indications referred to in Articles 6 -8 
of this Rule, as appropriate , together with the meat, to the operators at the subsequent stages 
of production and distribution.  
3. 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 . 
4. The food business operato r who packs or labels the meat in accordance with Articles 6 -8 
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 6 -8. 
5.The system referred to in paragraph 1 shall record, in particular, the arrival at and the 
departure from the establishment of th e food business operator, of animals, carcases or cuts, 
as appropriate, and ensure a correlation between arrivals and departures.  
 Article 5. Group of animals  
1.The size of the group of animals referred in paragraph 2 of Article 4 of this Rule:  
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 8 is applied, when constituting the batches, the 
establishments in which meat is cut or minced shall ensure tha t all carcasses in a batch 
correspond to animals to the meat of which identical labelling indications apply in 
accordance with  1 or 3 paraghraps Article  6. 
Article 6. Labeling of meat  
1. The label of meat referred to in paragraph 2 of Article  2 intended f or supplying to the final 
consumer or to mass caterers shall contain the following indications:  
A) The name of the country where the rearing took place indicated as : "Reared in  Country 
(name of country)"; If the animal reared in EU Member country  "Reared in  EU, Country 
(Country Name)" in accordance with  the following criteria : 
A.a) For swine : 
A.a.a) in case the animal is slaughtered older than 6 month s, the name of the country in 
which the last rearing period of at least 4 months took place,  
A.a.b) in case the animal is slaughtered younger than 6 months and with a live weight of at 
least 80 kilograms  the name of the country in which the rearing period after the animal has 
reached 30 kilograms took place,  
A.a.c)  in case the animal is slaughtered yo unger than 6 months and with a live weight of less 
than 80 kilograms  the name of the country  in which the whole rearing period took place;  
A.b) for sheep and goats:  
A.b.a) Name of the country  in which the last rearing period of at least 6 months took place  
A.b.b) In case the animal is slaughtered younger than 6 months, the name of the  country in 
which the whole rearing period took place,  
A.c) for poultry:  A.c.a)  the name of the country in which the last rearing period of at least one month took 
place  
A.c.b) In case the animal is slaughtered younger than one month, the name of the country in 
which the whole rearing period after the animal was placed for fattening took place;  
B) The name of the  country in which the slaughter took place indicated as ‘Slaughte red in:  
(name of the country)"; If the animal was slaughtered in the EU Member country  
"Slaughtered  in EU , country (country name)" must be indicated.  
C) the batch code identifying the meat supplied to the consumer or mass caterer.  
2. If the rearing period specified in subparagraph (a) of paragraph 1 of t his Article has not 
been attained , the names of all countries shall be indicated,w here the animal was reared . 
Indication - "reared  (list of countries where the animal was  reared )" if the food business 
operator proves to  the LEPL - National Food Agency that the animal was reared  in these 
countries.  
3. The indications referred to in subparagraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 of this Article may 
be replaced by the indication  "origin" if the food business operator proves  to the LEPL 
National Food Agency that the meat specified in paragraph 2 of the Article 2 of this Rule has 
been obtained from an animal s  born, r eared  and slaughter in the same country.  
4. Where several pieces of meat, o f the same or of different species, correspond to different 
labelling indications in accordance with paragraphs 1,2 and 3  of this article  and are presented 
in the same pack to the consumer or mass caterer, the label shall indicate:  
A) The list of the relevant countries for each species in accordance with paragraphs 2 or 3 of 
this article ,  
B) The batch code /number identifying the meat supplied to the consumer or mass caterer . 
Article 7. Derogation  
If the label of meat imported for placing on the market referred in paragraph 2 of Article 2 
does not contain the indications referred  in  paragraph 1, subparagraph (a), of the Article 6, 
one of the following will be indicated:  
A)" ‘Reared  in (name of the  country) and  slaughter ed (name of the country)";  
B) " Reard in EU (country name) and slaughtered in EU (country name), if the animal has 
reared and slaughtered in any EU member  state ; C)Reared  in EU (country name) and slaughtered in a non -EU country (cou ntry name)", if 
reared  in any EU member country  and slaughtered in a non -EU country ; 
D) "Reared  in  (country name) and slaughtered  in EU (country name)" if raised  in a non -EU 
country and slaughtered  in an EU member state . 
 
Article 8 - Derogations  for minced meat and trimmings  
1.The following indications  may be applied  on the label of the  minced meat and trimmings,  
A) "Origin (name of the country)",  where minced meat or trimmings are produced 
exclusively from meat obtained from animals born, reared an d slaughtere in that country . 
B) "Origin in the EU (name of the country)",  wher e minced meat or trimmings  are produced 
exclusively from meat  obtained from  animal s born, r eared  and slaughtered in an EU 
Member State;  
C) "Reared  and slaughtered in Georgia" where  the minced meat or trimming s are produced 
exclusively from the meat obtained from animals, reared and slaughtered in Georgia;  
D) "Reared and slaughtered in (name of the country)", where the minced meat or  trimmings 
produced exclusively from the meat obtained from animals, reared and slaughtered in that 
country   
E) Reared  and slaughtered in EU (country name) " where the minced meat or  trimming  
produced exclusively from the meat obtained from animals, reared  and slaughtered in EU 
Member  state ; 
F)Reared in (name of country) and slaughtered in (name of country)" where the minced meat 
or trimming produced exclusively from the meat obtained from animals which, r eared in one 
country , imported and slaughtered in other country;  
G) R aised in EU(name of country) and slaughtered (country name)  where the minced  meat or 
trimming  produced exclusively from the meat obtained from animal, which  r eared  in an EU 
Member country , imported and slaughtered in a non -EU country;  
H)Reared  (name of the country) and sla ughtered in Georgia"  where the minced meat or 
trimming  produced exclusively from the meat obtained from animal, which reared  in the 
other country, imported and slaughtered in Georgia;  I) Reared  in EU  (name of coun try) and slaughtered in Georgia  where the minced  meat or 
trimming  produced exclusively from the meat obtained from animal, which reared  in an EU 
Member country, imported and slaughtered in Georgia.   
 
Article 9. Additional voluntary information on the label  
1. Food business operators may supplement the indications referred to in Articles 6, 7 or 8 
with additional information concerning the provenance of the meat on the label specified in 
paragraph 2 of Article 2.  
2. The information specified in paragraph 1 of th is Article shall not be contradictory to the 
indications referred to in Articles 6, 7 or 8 of this Rule and the Resolution of the 
Government of Georgia - "Technical Regulation - On provision of food information to 
consumers", "Chapter V. On Food Additional  information “defined requirements.