Chapter IV, Article 47 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594

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Article 47Special health or identification marks#

1.The competent authority of the Member State concerned shall ensure that the following products of animal origin are marked in accordance with paragraph 2:

(a)the fresh meat and meat products, including casings, obtained from porcine animals kept in a restricted zone III, as provided for in Article 43, point (d)(ii);

(b)the fresh meat and meat products, including casings, obtained from porcine animals kept in a restricted zone II, where the specific conditions for authorising movements of consignments of those commodities outside the restricted zone II provided for in Article 41(1) are not met, as provided for in Articles 24(3), point (e), and 41(2), point (b)(ii);

(c)the fresh meat and meat products from wild porcine animals moved within a restricted zone I or outside that restricted zone from the establishment designated in accordance with Article 44(1), as provided for in Article 52(1), point (c)(iii), first indent.

2.The competent authority of the Member State concerned and, where relevant, food business operators shall ensure that:

(a)a health mark or, where relevant, an identification mark as provided for in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 with two additional diagonal parallel lines is applied to products of animal origin referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and intended for movement only within the same Member State concerned;

(b)following the marking of the products of animals origin as provided for in paragraph 2, point (a), of this Article the information required for a health mark or, where relevant, an identification mark provided for in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 remains in perfectly legible characters.

3.By way of derogation from paragraph 2 of this Article, the competent authority of the Member State concerned may authorise the use of another form of special health mark or, where relevant, an identification mark that is not oval and cannot be confused with the health mark or identification mark provided for in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 for a period of twelve months following the date of publication of this Regulation.