2007/165/EC: Commission Decision of 14 March 2007 amending Decision 96/4/EC authorising a method for grading pig carcasses in Austria (notified under document number C(2007) 833)
Date: 2007-03-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Austria, carcase, meat processing industry, pigmeat, statistical method

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Official Journal of the European Union

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(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory)

II

DECISIONS

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 14 March 2007

amending Decision 96/4/EC authorising a method for grading pig carcasses in Austria

(notified under document number C(2007) 833)

(Only the German text is authentic)

(2007/165/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

By Commission Decision 96/4/EC (2), Austria was
authorised to apply a method for grading pig carcasses
termed the ‘Zwei-Punkte-Messverfahren (ZP)’.

In view of
the Austrian
technical developments,
Government has asked the Commission to authorise
the use of a new formula for the method used under
Decision 96/4/EC and has
elements
required under 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 carcasses (3).

submitted the

(3)

(4)

(5)

the
The evaluation of
conditions for authorising the new grading method are
fulfilled.

this request has revealed that

Decision
accordingly.

96/4/EC should

therefore

be

amended

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

in this Decision are in
the Management

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 96/4/EC is hereby replaced by the
Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Austria.

Done at Brussels, 14 March 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(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 1, 3.1.1996, p. 9. Decision as amended by Decision 97/813/EC

(OJ L 334, 5.12.1997, p. 41).

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

lation (EC) No 1197/2006 (OJ L 217, 8.8.2006, p. 6).

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX

1. Grading of pig carcasses shall be carried out by use of the method termed “Zwei-Punkte-Messverfahren (ZP)”.

ZWEI-PUNKTE-MESSVERFAHREN (ZP)

2. The lean meat content of the carcass shall be calculated according to the following formula:

ŷ = 48,7719 – 0,48330 × a + 0,23127 × b

where:

ŷ = the estimated percentage of lean meat in the carcass,

a = thickness of fat (including rind) in millimetres on the midline of the split carcass at its thinnest part covering the

Musculus glutaeus medius,

b = the visible thickness in millimetres of the lumbar muscle on the midline of the split carcass, measured as the
shortest connection between the front (cranial) end of the Musculus glutaeus medius and the upper (dorsal) edge of
the vertebral canal.

The formula shall be valid for carcasses weighing between 70 and 130 kilograms.’