Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1478 of 14 October 2020 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1375 as regards sampling, the reference method for detection and import conditions related to Trichinella control (Text with EEA relevance)

‘5 By way of derogation from Article 2(3) and following approval by the competent authority: (a) carcasses may be cut up at a cutting plant attached to or separate from the slaughterhouse provided that: (i) the procedure is approved by the competent authority; (ii) a carcass or the parts thereof have not more than one cutting plant as its destination; (iii) the cutting plant is situated within the territory of the Member State; and (iv) in the case of a positive result all the parts are declared unfit for human consumption; (b) carcasses derived from domestic swine may be cut up into more parts in a cutting plant on the same premises or attached to the slaughterhouse provided that: (i) the procedure is approved by the competent authority; (ii) warm cutting is necessary for the production of specific products; (iii) in the case of a positive result all the parts are declared unfit for human consumption.’;

‘3 Where a procedure is in place in the slaughterhouse to ensure that no part of carcases examined leaves the premises until the result of the Trichinella examination is found to be negative and the procedure is formally approved by the competent authority or where the derogation provided for in Article 3(5) applies, the health mark provided for in Article 18(4) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 may be applied before the results of the Trichinella examination are available.’;

‘2 Only the third countries listed in Annex VII may apply the derogations provided for in Article 3(2) and (3) after having informed the Commission on the application of those derogations’;

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. Article 1(4), (5) and (7) shall apply from 21 April 2021.