Part II, Chapter II, Section 2, Article 29, Paragraph 2. · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687

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2.The competent authority shall only grant authorisations provided for in paragraph 1 under the following conditions:

(a)the means of transport must be sealed at the moment of loading by the competent authority of dispatch or under its supervision;

(b)the competent authority of the slaughterhouse shall:

(i)be informed in advance by the slaughterhouse operator of the intention to receive kept animals of listed species;

(ii)confirm the absence of any signs indicative of the category A disease during the ante and post mortem inspections;

(iii)supervise the slaughterhouse operator having effective procedures in place to ensure that kept animals of listed species originating in the protection zone are kept separately and slaughtered separately from such animals or at different times, preferably at the end of the working day of arrival;

(iv)confirm the slaughter of the animals to the competent authority of the establishment of origin of the animals;

(v)supervise the slaughterhouse operator cleaning and disinfecting the premises where the animals have been kept and slaughtered and the completion of the cleaning and disinfection is completed before other kept animals of listed species are kept or slaughtered in those premises; and

(vi)supervise the obtaining of meat from such animals complying with the conditions laid down in Article 33.

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carcass of an ungulate
means the whole body of a slaughtered or killed ungulate after:
casings
means the bladders and intestines that after cleaning have been processed by tissue scraping, defatting and washing and have been treated with salt or dried;
colostrum
means the fluid secreted by the mammary glands of kept animals up to five days post parturition that is rich in antibodies and minerals, and precedes the production of raw milk.
colostrum-based products
means processed products resulting from the processing of colostrum or from the further processing of such processed products;
day-old chicks
means poultry less than 72 hours old;
embryo
means the initial stage of development of an animal while it is capable of being transferred to a recipient dam;
fresh meat
means meat, minced meat and meat preparations, including vacuum-wrapped or wrapped in a controlled atmosphere, which has not undergone any process other than chilling, freezing or quick-freezing;
infected zone
means a zone in which restrictions on the movements of kept and wild animals or products and other disease control and biosecurity measures may be applied with the view to preventing the spread of a category A disease in the event of official confirmation of the disease in wild animals.
means of transport
means road or rail vehicle, vessels and aircrafts;
meat products
means processed products, including treated stomachs, bladders, intestines, rendered fats, meat extracts and blood products, resulting from the processing of meat or from the further processing of such processed products, so that the cut surface shows that the product no longer has the characteristics of fresh meat;
offal
means fresh meat other than that of the carcass as defined in (7), even if it remains naturally connected to the carcass;
oocytes
means the haploid stages of the ootidogenesis including secondary oocytes and ova;
safe commodity
means a commodity that can be moved without the need for risk mitigation measures specifically directed against a particular listed disease regardless of the status of the Member State or zone of origin for that disease;
semen
means the ejaculate of an animal or animals, either in the unaltered state or prepared or diluted;
supply chain
means an integrated production chain of a common health status as regards listed diseases consisting of a collaborative network of specialised establishments approved by the competent authority for the purpose of Article 45, between which animals are moved to complete the production cycle;