Council Regulation (EC) No 1183/2006 of 24 July 2006 concerning the Community scale for the classification of carcasses of adult bovine animals (codified version)
(a) "carcass": the whole body of a slaughtered animal as presented after bleeding, evisceration and skinning, presented: without the head and without the feet; the head shall be separated from the carcass at the atloido-occipital joint and the feet shall be severed at the carpametacarpal or tarsometatarsal joints, without the organs contained in the thoracic and abdominal cavities with or without the kidneys, the kidney fat and the pelvic fat, without the sexual organs and the attached muscles and without the udder or the mammary fat;
(b) "half-carcass": the product obtained by separating the carcass referred to in point (a) symmetrically through the middle of each cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebra and through the middle of the sternum and the ischiopubic symphysis.
without kidneys, kidney fat, or pelvic fat, without thin skirt or thick skirt, without the tail, without the spinal cord, without cod fat, without fat on the inside of topside, without jugular vein and the adjacent fat.
A. carcasses of uncastrated young male animals of less than two years of age; B. carcasses of other uncastrated male animals; C. carcasses of castrated male animals; D. carcasses of female animals that have calved; E. carcasses of other female animals.
(a) conformation, as defined in Annex I; (b) fat cover, as defined in Annex II.
| Conformation class | Description |
|---|---|
| All profiles extremely convex; exceptional muscle development (double-muscled carcass type) | |
| All profiles convex to super-convex; exceptional muscle development | |
| Profiles on the whole convex; very good muscle development | |
| Profiles on the whole straight; good muscle development | |
| Profiles straight to concave; average muscle development | |
| All profiles concave to very concave; poor muscle development |
| Class of fat cover | Description |
|---|---|
| None up to low fat cover | |
| Slight fat cover, flesh visible almost everywhere | |
| Flesh, with the exception of the round and shoulder, almost everywhere covered with fat, slight deposits of fat in the thoracic cavity | |
| Flesh covered with fat, but on the round and shoulder still partly visible, some distinctive fat deposits in the thoracic cavity | |
| Entire carcass covered with fat; heavy fat deposits in the thoracic cavity |
| Council Regulation (EEC) No 1208/81 | ( |
| Council Regulation (EEC) No 1026/91 | ( |
| Regulation (EEC) No 1208/81 | This Regulation |
|---|---|
| Article 1 | Article 1 |
| Article 2(1) | Article 2 |
| Article 2(2) | Article 3 |
| Article 3(1) | Article 4(1) |
| Article 3(2), first subparagraph | Article 4(2) |
| Article 3(2), second and third subparagraphs | Article 4(3), first and second subparagraphs |
| Article 3(3) | Article 4(4) |
| Article 4 | Article 5 |
| Article 5, first, second and third subparagraphs | Article 6(1), first, second, and third subparagraphs |
| Article 5, fourth paragraph | Article 6(2) |
| Article 6, first paragraph | Article 7 |
| Article 6, second, third and fourth subparagraphs | — |
| — | Article 8 |
| Article 7 | Article 9 |
| Annexes I and II | Annexes I and II |
| — | Annex III |
| — | Annex IV |