1999/699/EC: Commission Decision of 13 October 1999 amending Decision 92/469/EEC authorising methods for grading pig carcases in Denmark (notified under document number C(1999) 3279) (Only the Danish text is authentic)
Date: 1999-10-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Denmark, carcase, classification, meat processing industry, swine

L 276/12

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Official Journal of the European Communities

27. 10. 1999

amending Decision 92/469/EEC authorising methods for grading pig carcases in Denmark

COMMISSION DECISION

of 13 October 1999

(notified under document number C(1999) 3279)

(Only the Danish text is authentic)

(1999/699/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3220/84 of 13 November 1984 determining the
Community scale for grading pig carcases (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3513/93 (2), and in
particular Article 5(2) thereof,

(1) Whereas the Commission, by Decision 92/469/EEC (3), as last amended by Decision 98/283/EC (4),

has authorised different methods for grading pig carcases in Denmark;

(2) Whereas the Danish Government has requested the Commission to authorise the use of new
formulae for calculating the lean meat content of dehided carcases under the existing grading
methods ‘KC’ and ‘FOM/MK’; whereas the information required pursuant to Article 3 of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 2967/85 of 24 October 1985 laying down detailed rules for the application of
the Community scale for grading pig carcases (5) as amended by Regulation (EC) No 3127/94 (6) has
been submitted; whereas evaluation of the request has shown the conditions for authorising the new
formulae to be fulfilled;

(3) Whereas Decision 92/469/EEC should be amended accordingly;

(4) Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the

Management Committee for Pigmeat,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 92/469/EEC is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 2 is replaced by the following text:

‘Article 2

Notwithstanding the standard presentation referred to in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 3220/84, pig
carcases may be dehided before being weighed and graded, whereby the forecast are cut just above the os
carpi accessorium and the hindfeet just below the calcaneum. Dehided carcases have to be graded by the
apparatus KC or the apparatus FOM/MK, using the special formulae provided for in Parts 1 and 2 of the
Annex. The warm carcase weight (excluding flat fat, kidneys and diaphragm) of those carcases is
calculated according to the following formula:

warm carcases weight = 5,83 + 1,037 × weight of the dehided carcase’.

(1) OJ L 301, 20.11.1984, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 320, 22.12.1993, p. 5.
(3) OJ L 265, 11.9.1992, p. 39.
(4) OJ L 128, 30.4.1998, p. 68.
(5) OJ L 285, 25.10.1985, p. 39.
(6) OJ L 330, 21.12.1994, p. 43.

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2. Part 1 of the Annex is amended as follows:

The formula under point 3(b) is replaced by the following:
‘Ŷ = 58,881 − 0,1706 x1 − 0,0818 x2 − 0,1645 x3− 0,1964 x4 − 0,1005 x5 − 0,2553 x6 − 0,1813 x7
+ 0,0853 x8 + 0,0452 x9 + 0,0513 x10 + 0,0427 x11’.

3. Part 2 of the Annex is amended as follows:

The formula under point 3(b) is replaced by the following:
‘Ŷ = 62,16152 − 0,2106379 x1 − 0,61076 x2 + 0,1128888 x3 + 0,02276837 x4’.

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Denmark.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 13 October 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission