2005/628/EC: Commission Decision of 26 August 2005 amending Decision 89/471/EEC authorising methods for grading pig carcases in Germany (notified under document number C(2005) 3238)
Date: 2005-08-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, agricultural product nomenclature, carcase, measuring equipment, statistical method, swine

L 224/20

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

30.8.2005

COMMISSION DECISION

of 26 August 2005

amending Decision 89/471/EEC authorising methods for grading pig carcases in Germany

(notified under document number C(2005) 3238)

(Only the German text is authentic)

(2005/628/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Article 1

Decision 89/471/EEC is hereby amended as follows:

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

Whereas:

1. In Article 1, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

As

a method for grading of pig carcases

‘1.
the
assessment method for lean meat based on the use of the
apparatus “Ultrasonic Scanner GE Logiq 200pro”, details of
which are given in Part 1 of the Annex, is hereby authorised.’

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

By Commission Decision 89/471/EEC (2),
the use of
several methods for grading pig carcases in Germany
was authorised.

2. Article 4a is deleted.

in the framework of

The German Government has requested the Commission
to authorise the application of a new apparatus as a
reference system for assessing the lean meat content of
the existing grading
carcases
required in
methods and has
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 (3).

submitted the details

for

authorising the new apparatus

The examination of this request has revealed that the
conditions
are
fulfilled. The use of the apparatus ‘Ultrasound-Scanner
SSD 256’ as a reference system for assessing the lean
meat content can thus be replaced by the use of the
apparatus ‘Ultrasonic Scanner GE Logiq 200pro’.

Decision 89/471/EEC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Pigmeat,

in this Decision are in
the Management

3. In the Annex, Part 1 is amended as follows:

(a)

the title is replaced by the following:

‘PART 1

Ultrasonic Scanner GE Logiq 200pro’;

(b) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1. The “Ultrasonic Scanner GE Logiq 200pro” is a two-
image
dimensional ultrasonic scanner with digital
processing. The system is operated with a linear
3.5 MHz probe that allows a sonar penetration
down to about 20 cm depending on the display
window chosen. The scanning width of the probe
is 9,4 cm, which corresponds to two or three ribs
of the carcase.

The assessment method provided for in paragraph 2
is to be used as a method for the grading of pig
carcases established on the basis of the values of
the measurements obtained
apparatus
“Ultrasonic Scanner GE Logiq 200pro”.

the

by

(1) OJ L 301, 20.11.1984, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 3513/93 (OJ L 320, 22.12.1993, p. 5).

(2) OJ L 233, 10.8.1989, p. 30. Decision as last amended by Decision

97/546/EC (OJ L 224, 14.8.1997, p. 20).

(3) OJ L 285, 25.10.1985, p. 39. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 3127/94 (OJ L 330, 21.12.1994, p. 43).

Every apparatus used in the abattoir must be cali-
brated and must give values of the measurements
equivalent to those of the “Ultrasonic Scanner GE
Logiq 200pro” ’.

30.8.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 224/21

This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 26 August 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission