Council Directive 88/409/EEC of 15 June 1988 laying down the health rules applying to meat intended for the domestic market and the levels of the fees to be charged, pursuant to Directive 85/73/EEC, in respect of the inspection of such meat
Date: 1988-06-15

num: Article 1 This Directive lays down, without prejudice to the arrangements to be adopted pursuant to Article 15 (b) of Council Directive 71/118/EEC of 15 February 1971 on health problems affecting trade in fresh poultrymeat (10), as last amended by  Regulation (EEC) No 3805/87, the health inspection rules and the level of the health fees applying to meat intended for the domestic market in the Member States.
paragraphs: For the purposes of this Directive the definitions given in Article 2 of Directive 64/433/EEC shall apply This Directive shall not affect national rules on the slaughter of an animal for the farmer's personal needs, provided that such rules prescribe guarantees for checking that the meat from the animal is not sold for public consumption.
¹ ¹ ¹ 22. 7. 88 Official Journal of the European Communities Article 2 As from 1 January 1990 the Member States shall take the necessary steps to ensure that, by the date specified in Article 6 at the latest, all fresh meat produced in their territory for marketing there is inspected in accordance with the inspection rules laid down in Chapter V, points 25, 26 and 27, in Chapters VI, VII and VIII, and in Chapter IX in the second, fifth and sixth indents of point 47, of Annex I to Directive 64/433/EEC. Such meat shall not bear the health mark provided for in Chapter X of that Annex if it does not meet the other requirements of the said Directive.
The provisions in Chapters VI, VIII and Chapter IX, point 47 of Annex I to Directive 64/433/EEC shall not apply to operations involving the storage and cutting of small quantities on the premises where they will be sold to the final consumer.
num: Article 3 The following Article is inserted in Directive 85/73/EEC:
paragraphs: ´Article 2a Member States shall ensure that the expenses entailed by the controls referred to in Articles 6, 8 and 9 of Directive 86/469/EEC are charged against the fees laid down in Article 1.' Article 4 The level of the fees resulting from Article 2 of Decision 88/408/EEC shall be applicable in respect of fresh meat produced and inspected in accordance with Article 2 of this Directive and of meat referred to in Article 16a of Directive 71/118/EEC.
num: Article 5 1.  Before 1 October 1989 the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission,
paragraphs: shall decide on the conditions under which the other requirements of Directive 64/433/EEC may be extended to establishments or slaughterhouses not approved under the said Directive, shall, to that end, review the criteria laid down in particular in Article 3 (1) (A) (d) and in Article 5 of that Directive for the purpose of preventing trade in certain meat and shall adopt minimum rules regarding hygiene and inspection that must be complied with by a slaughterhouse intending to restrict its production to the local market.
2. By the same date and in accordance with the same procedure, the following shall be adopted for meat currently restricted to the domestic market:
- new ante mortem and post mortem health inspection rules for poultrymeat,
- provisions regarding the professional qualifications of assistant inspectors, their required training and the tasks they are to perform.
num: Article 6 Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive not later than 1 January 1991. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
paragraphs: However, the Hellenic Republic shall have an additional period of two years in which to comply with it.