CELEX: 51984PC0439
Language: en
Date: 1984-09-07
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 64/433/EEC ON HEALTH PROBLEMS AFFECTING INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE IN FRESH MEAT

No C 255/6                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                 22.9. 84
                                                                   II
                                                            (Preparatory Acts)
                                                     COMMISSION
                      Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 64/433/EEC on health problems
                                            affecting intra-Community trade in fresh meat
                                                           COM(84) 439 final
                                 (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 11 September 1984)
                                                             (84/C 255/09)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                             Whereas the execution of microbiological control in
COMMUNITIES,                                                            slaughterhouses and cutting plants must be based on
                                                                        the use of harmonized microbiological methods in
                                                                        order to obtain reliable results;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 43 thereof,                                                     Whereas decisions laying down and, where necessary,
                                                                        amending the microbiological methods to be
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                      employed for microbiological control should be
                                                                        adopted in accordance with a procedure ensuring
                                                                        close cooperation between the Member Staates and
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia-                    the Commission,
ment,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECHVE:
Social Committee,
                                                                                                 Article 1
Whereas Council Directive 64/433/EEC (*), as last
amended by Directive 83/90/EEC (2), lays down the                       Directive 64/433/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
hygiene conditions under which fresh meat must be
produced in slaughterhouses and cutting plants;
whereas that Directive provided for health inspections                  1. In Article 3 (3), 'the microbiological control
to be carried out; whereas microbiological analyses                        provided for in Article 8 (3)' is added after 'when
covering inter alia equipment, utensils and carcases                       carrying out the supervision referred to in
constitute a means for achieving an objective                              paragraph 1 (B) (d)'.
assessment of the standard of hygiene;
                                                                        2. In Article 8 the following paragraph is inserted:
Whereas microbiological control provides the health
inspection service with useful information; whereas
this constitutes an effective means of checking and                        '3 (a) As part of the hygiene control of
improving the standard of hygiene in establishments;                               establishments the official veterinarian may,
whereas such control must provide the micro-                                      where he considers it necessary, have
biological guideline within the meaning of Council                                 recourse to microbiological control in order
D e c i s i o n , . . ; whereas the veterinary inspection                          to gather further information on which to
authority should therefore be granted the authority to                            base the assessment.
make microbiological checks where it sees fit;
whereas the microbiological examinations should be                                 Microbiological control may relate to:
compulsory for checking the hygienic production of
                                                                                  — the utensils, fittings and machinery, in
the meat produced in a particular way;
                                                                                       order to determine the aerobic micro-
                                                                                       organism, enterobacteriaceae or coli-
                                                                                       forms and "faecal streptococci" count,
(') OJ No 121, 29. 7. 1964, p. 2012/64.                                            — fresh meat, in order to determine, at all
(2) OJ No L 59, 5. 3. 1983, p. 10.                                                     stages of the production line, the
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              aerobic micro-organism, enterobacter-                        minced meat, meat cut in a similar manner
              iaceae   or     coliform     and    "faecal                  and mechanically recovered meat shall be
              streptococci" count;                                         adopted not later than . . . in accordance
          In the establishments producing minced                           with the procedure laid down in Article 16,
          meat, meat cut in a similar manner and                           and may be amended in accordance with
          mechanically recovered meat the above                            the same procedure to take account of
          controls are compulsory.                                         scientific and technological progress.
      (b) The results of a microbiological exami-                      (e) The results of the microbiological control
          nation must be assessed by comparing them                        shall be recorded.'
          with the results of previous checks.
                                                                3. Paragraph 3 of Article 8 becomes paragraph 4.
      (c) The microbiological methods which may be
          employed for microbiological control and
          the sampling plan in the hygienic                                              Article 2
          production of fresh meat shall be adopted
                                                                Member States shall bring into force the laws, regu-
          not later than . . . in accordance with the
                                                                lations and administrative provisions necessary to
          procedure laid down in Article 16, and may
                                                                comply with this Directive on 1 July 1985. They shall
          be amended in accordance with the same
                                                                forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
          procedure to take account of scientific and
          technological progress.
                                                                                         Article 3
      (d) The microbiological criteria concerning the
          control of the hygienic production of                 This Directive is addressed to the Member States.