Meat Products (Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. No. 683 of 1999).

These Regulations implement Council Directive 95/68/EC on health problems affecting the production and marketing of meat products and certain other products of animal origin. They also amend the principal Regulations to give effect to Article 1(9) of Council Directive 97/76/EC. Regulation 2 makes technical adjustments to various provisions of the principal Regulations. In particular, the exceptions to the requirement that a health mark be applied to a meat product, set out in Schedule 2 Part VI to the principal Regulations, are redefined (reg. 2(10)(d), (e) and (f)), as are the hygiene control requirements imposed on manufacturers using hermetically sealed containers (Schedule 2 Part VIII). The temperature requirements applying to the production of meat-based prepared meals are also amended (reg. 2(10). A new Chapter III of Annex C to Council Directive 77/99/EC lays down conditions governing the production, placing on the market and import of cleaned, salted or dried and/or heated stomachs, bladders and intestines. That new Chapter is replicated in a revised Part III of Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations. Regulation 3 makes a consequential amendment to the Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations 1996.