2008/676/EC: Commission Decision of 24 July 2008 authorising a method for grading pig carcases in Bulgaria (notified under document number C(2008) 3740)
Date: 2008-07-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, agricultural product nomenclature, carcase, statistical method, swine

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

II

DECISIONS

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 24 July 2008

authorising a method for grading pig carcases in Bulgaria

(notified under document number C(2008) 3740)

(Only the Bulgarian text is authentic)

(2008/676/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

results of its dissection trials in the second part of the
protocol provided for in Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC)
No 2967/85.

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 carcases (1), and in particular Article 5(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Under Article 2(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3220/84, the
grading of pig carcases is to be determined by estimating
the lean meat content by means of statistically proven
assessment methods based on the physical measurement
of one or more anatomical parts of the pig carcase. The
authorisation
to
grading methods
compliance with a maximum tolerance for statistical
error
is defined in
Article 3(2) 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 (2).

in assessment. This

tolerance

subject

of

is

(2)

Bulgaria has asked the Commission to authorise one
method for grading pig carcases and has presented the

(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 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).

(3)

(4)

(5)

Examination of
conditions
fulfilled.

this

the
for authorising this grading method are

revealed that

request has

No modification of the apparatus or grading method
may be
a new
authorised except by means of
Commission Decision adopted in the light of experience
gained. For this reason, the present authorisation may be
revoked.

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 use of
grading pig
3220/84 in Bulgaria:

the following method is hereby authorised for
to Regulation (EEC) No

carcases pursuant

— the Ultra FOM 200 apparatus and the assessment methods
related thereto, details of which are given in the Annex.

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Modifications of the apparatus or the assessment method shall not be authorised.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Bulgaria.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 24 July 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Methods for grading pig carcases in Bulgaria

ULTRA FOM 200

1. Grading of pig carcases shall be carried out by means of the apparatus termed as Ultra FOM 200.

2. The apparatus shall be equipped with an ultrasonic probe at 4 MHz (Krautkrämer MB 4 SE). The ultrasonic signal is
digitised, stored and processed by a micro-processor (type Intel 80 C 32). The results of the measurements shall be
converted into estimated lean meat content by means of the Ultra FOM apparatus itself.

3. The lean meat content of the carcase shall be calculated according to the following formula:

= 67,130 – 0,3284 × X1 – 0,3725 × X2 + 0,01515 × X3

where:

= the estimated lean meat content (in percentage),

X1 = thickness of the dorsal fat and skin measured at a point 7 cm off the midline of the carcase, between the third

and fourth last lumber vertebra (in millimetres),

X2 = thickness of the dorsal fat and skin measured at a point 7 cm off the midline of the carcase, between the third

and fourth last rib (in millimetres),

X3 = muscle depth measured at the same point and at the same time as the thickness of the dorsal fat (in

millimetres).

This formula shall be valid for carcases weighing between 60 and 120 kilograms.