CELEX: 51980PC0031
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Date: 1980-02-01
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) DETERMINING THE COMMUNITY SCALE FOR GRADING CARCASES OF ADULT BOVINES (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                    COM(80)31 final
                                                    Brussels , 1st February 1980
                   PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
                     DETERMINING THE COMMUNITY SCALE FOR
                      GRADING CARCASES OF ADULT BOVINES
               ( presented by the Commission to the Council )
                          f / /'iJ' nr; - r:''''- :   '
 C0M(80 ) 31 final
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 Since significant progress has "been made in recent years in the Member States
with regard to the classification of the carcases of adult bovines , it is
proposed that the various national classification schemes should be harmonized
into a single Community scale , drawing on experience gained so far .
The combined use of the two main classification criteria , namely the conforma­
tion and the degree of fattness , makes it possible to classify the carcases of
adult bovines on the basis of their richnees in meat , the commercial value of
the carcases being a natter for th© jxidgament of the seller and the purchaser .
In order to facilitate the use by those concerned of the common termini logy
represented by the Community scale ( carcases classified at the time of
slaughtering should be marked®
Finally , the establishment , on the basis of the Community scale , of more
objective and more comparable quotations from one Member State to another
will make it possible to determine ©ore precisely the average Community market
price for slaughtered adult bovines of the standard quality .
The new rules proposed are intended , as a result of better knowledge of the
product , to ensure improved market transparency for beef and veal in the
Community and , as the Commission has already indicated in its proposals to
improve the common agricultural policy in the beef and veal sector ( l ), a
more uniform application througout the Community of intervention buying–in .
They do not imply any grading af carcases on the basis of their commercial
value .
( l ) Doc COM (79 ) 71o Final of 29 November 1979 * P « 6
 ---pagebreak---                              Proposal for
                   COUNCIL RBQULA.TIOU (EEC)
determining "the Community scale for grading carcases of adult bovines
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economio Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 803/68 on the common organization
of the' market in beef and veal ( l), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No   ( 2),
and in particular Art iole 3(4) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ( 3) J          K
Whereas pursuant to Artiole 3 of Regulation (EEC) NO 805/68 a guide price must
be fixed annually for slaughtered adult bovines of a standard quality defined
by referenoe to a Community soale for classifying carcases of adult bovines ;
WhereaB it is therefore neoessary to establish rules ensuring uniform classi­
fication of carcaseB of adult bovines ;
Whereas this olassifioation must be made on the basis of confrontation and degree
of fatness ;
Whereas the combination of the two abovementioned criteria enables carcases of
adult bovines to be classified into commercial classes ^ whereas an easily visible
indelible mark should be applied to the oarcase thus classified/ indicating the
olass in which it has been placed;
Whereas to facilitate quotations for caroases Of adult bovines on a common basis
 in the Member States and to make the quotations comparable to the guide prioes
 for the standard quality, the Community scale should be used for determining
 quotations for adult bovine caroases and in particular for determining the Community
 market price for adult bovine carcases of the standard quality .
 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION'S                              ■        ,           .
                                       Artide 1
1 . The Community scale for classifying adult bovine carcases shall be as shown
    in Annex I * The bases for classifying adult bovine carcases are set out in
    Annex II *
2 . An easily visible Indelible mark shall be applied to each caroase classified,
    indicating the olass in which it has been placed. r -
1 ) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 06 . 1968 , p. 24.
2 ) OJ No
 ---pagebreak---                                    2
                                Article 2
The Community scale for the classification of adult "bovine carcases shall be
                                                  ■      ν
used for establishing quotations for             adult bovine carcases.
                                Article 3
Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation shall fee adopted in
acoordanoe with the prooedure laid down in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC)
Ho 805/68.
                                Article 4.
This Regulation shall enter into foroe on the day of its publication in the
Offioial Journal of the European Communities *
It shall apply with effeot from the beginning of the I980/8I marketing year* .
                                               ^                        *
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all  Member States *
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Done at Brussels .                                   For the Council
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                                                                   Annex I
                                                                                       ••                         »
                                         . Community soale for classifying adult bovine carcases
                                                                           -        _         • •
                     *                                        Degree of fatness
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               Exoellent      I                                                                           I
               Very good      II ;                                                                        II
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               Conformation        i              l              I           1                I -       I Confornation
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                                     lean           with a         with a      fat            very fat
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 ---pagebreak---                                  Annex II
                 Bases for classifying adult bovine carcases
A« "Carcase" means the body, whole or divided through
     the middle ,    of an animal of the "bovine epeoies, slaughtered, bled,
     skinned, eviscerated, after removal of
     – the head, detached between the occiput and the first oervical vertebra,
     – part of the legs ,
       the hind legs detached at the hook,
       the fore legs detached at the knee joint
     – the organs contained in the thoraoio and abdominal cavities , including
       fats and kidneys
     – in females the vulva and attached muscles , the udder and fatty mammary
       tissue
     – in males and neutered males , the penis, the attached susoles and,
        the testicles if any .     .
B. Adult bovine carcases are classified by successive assessment of t
   – the confoxmation, as regardsi
     – general aspects , profiles and musculature
     – the different parts of 'the carcase , particularly the thigh, spine and
       shoulder                      ®
     – the degree of fatness , with reference to
       – the fat layer, and in particular
       – the amount of internal fat in the thoraoio cavity, particularly under
          the thin flank*
                                                            /
Conformation is measured \tsipg "the Roman numerals I to VI and the degree of ,
fatness is measured using the Arabic numerals 1 to 5#
 ---pagebreak---                    FINANCIAL               STATEMENT
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  z. TITLE : Proposal for Council Regulation determining the Community scale for
      trading cattle carcases .                                     ^                         I
  j LEGAL BASIS : Article 3 of Council R. 805 /68
  « AIMS of PROJECT i Harmomsation cattle carcase classification in the Community .
  5 . FINANCIAL 'IMPLICATIONS                  PERIOD OF 12 MONTHS CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR   FOLLOWING FINANCIAL YEAR
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  5.0 EXPENDITURE
        - CHARGED TO THE EC BUDGET
           { REFUNDS / INTERVENTIONS )                 p. m .            *" p»m «                      - p. m .
        • NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
        - OTHER
  5.1 RECEIPTS
        • OWN RESOURCES CF THE EC
           ( 1£VUS / CUST0»S DOMES )
        - NATIONAL
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   5.1.1 ESTIMATE » RECCIPTS
   5*2 WETMOO OF CALCULATION ; The- adoption of a Community cattle carcase classification
    grid tends to decrease the expenditure of the beef and veal sector .. The exact
     influence cannot yet be calculated .
I 6.0    CAN T h £ PROJECT BE FINANCED FRO* APPROBATIONS ENTERED IN THE RELEVANT CHAPTER OF THE CURRENT BUDGET ?
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E        WILL FUTURE BUDGET APPROBATIONS BE NECESSARY ?
    OBSERVATIONS
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