1.   The slaughterhouses, the classification agencies or the qualified classifiers provided for in Article 9(1)(a) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 carrying out the classification in accordance with points A.II, A.III, B.II, C.II and C.III of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall communicate to the supplier of the animal, the results of the classification. That communication shall be, in paper form or by electronic means and shall indicate per carcass:

2.   Member States may require that the communication referred to in paragraph 1(a) includes subclasses, where such information is available.

1.   On-the-spot checks shall be carried out in all slaughterhouses applying the compulsory carcass classification as referred to in the first paragraph of Article 10 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

2.   The performance of the qualified classifiers and the applied grading methods as well as the classification, presentation and identification of the carcasses in the slaughterhouses referred to in points A.II, A.III, A.V, B.II, B.V, C.II, C.III, C.IV and C.V of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall be checked on the spot and without prior warning by a body independent of the slaughterhouses, the classification agencies and the qualified classifiers.

The requirement to be independent of the classification agencies and the qualified classifiers shall not apply where the competent authority of a Member State itself carries out such controls.

3.   Where the body responsible for on-the-spot checks does not fall under the authority of a competent authority, the competent authority shall verify that the on-the-spot checks are carried out correctly at least once a year, by means of physical supervision under the same conditions.

1.   Where a risk assessment is carried out in a Member State to determine the minimum requirements for on-the-spot checks, the frequency of those checks and the minimum number of carcasses to be checked shall be determined on the basis of such risk assessment, particularly taking into account the number of animals slaughtered in the slaughterhouses concerned and the findings during previous on-the-spot checks in these slaughterhouses.

2.   Where a risk assessment is not carried out in a Member State, on-the-spot checks shall be performed as follows:

3.   The on-the-spot checks shall verify in particular:

1.   The competent authority shall make and keep reports on the on-the-spot checks provided for in Article 2.

2.   In cases where a significant number of incorrect classifications, presentations or identifications or where the application of automated grading technique failing to comply with the rules is ascertained during the on-the-spot checks provided for in Article 2, the licences or approvals granted to qualified classifiers or automated grading technique as provided for in Article 9 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 may be revoked. In cases of an error on category, conformation or fat cover the body responsible for on-the-spot checks may ask the operator to rectify it on the marking of the carcass and in the documents concerned.

1.   Where the presentation of the carcass at the moment of weighing and classifying on the hook, differs from that provided for in Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and in Article 6 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182, the warm weight of the carcass shall be adjusted by application of the corrective factors.

For carcasses of pigs, bovine animals aged less than eight months and sheep the corrective factors shall be specified by the Member States.

For carcasses of bovine animals aged eight months or more the corrective factors are as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

2.   Where the adjustments referred to in paragraph 1 are the same throughout the territory of a Member State, they may be calculated at national level. Where such adjustments vary from one slaughterhouse to another, they shall be calculated at slaughterhouse level.

1.   The market price to be reported for carcasses of bovine animals aged eight months or more as referred to in Article 14 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 shall be recorded by:

2.   Member State shall ensure that prices are recorded for at least:

3.   The prices recorded in accordance with paragraph 1 shall relate to bovine animals aged eight months or more slaughtered during the recording period concerned, and be based on the cold weight of the carcass as referred to in Article 14(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182.

4.   The prices recorded for each class referred to in Article 7 of this Regulation shall indicate the average carcass weight to which they relate and whether or not they have been adjusted by application of each of the factors referred to in Article 5.

1.   In the absence of price recording on representative markets or by operators of slaughterhouses or by the natural or legal persons referred to in Articles 10, 11 and 12, the prices shall be recorded by chambers of agriculture, quotation centres, farmers` cooperatives or farmers` unions in the Member State concerned.

However, where a Member State has established a committee in the relevant region, to determine prices for that region, and where the membership of such committee is divided equally between buyers and sellers of bovine animals aged eight months or more and their carcasses, that Member State may use the prices determined by that committee for the calculation of the prices to be reported.

2.   Where flat-rate purchases account for more than 35 % of total slaughterings of bovine animals aged eight months or more in a Member State, that Member State may establish criteria to exclude certain consignments from the calculation of prices where those consignments disproportionally influence the prices.

However, where flat-rate purchases account for less than 35 % of total slaughterings of bovine animals aged eight months or more in the Member State, that Member State may decide not to take the prices for such purchases into account in the calculations of prices.

In the cases referred to in the second subparagraph a representative national price for each class shall be calculated by the competent authority, taking into account the factors referred to in Article 14 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 and in Article 5 of this Regulation.

1.   The reporting of market prices and notifications referred to in Article 13 and 25 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182, respectively shall be made in accordance with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1185 with the exception of the notifications provided for in Article 25(3) and (5) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182.

2.   The prices shall relate to the period from Monday to Sunday of the preceding week to that in which they are notified.

1.   The Union Inspection Committee (‘the Committee’) shall be responsible for carrying out on-the-spot inspections covering:

2.   The Committee shall be composed of at most:

The Member States shall appoint experts on the basis of their independence and ability, particularly in matters of classification of carcasses and recording of market prices and of the specific nature of the work to be carried out.

Experts shall not under any circumstances use for personal purposes or divulge information obtained in connection with the work of the Committee.

3.   Travel and subsistence expenses of members of the Committee linked to the on-the-spot inspections shall be borne by the Commission in accordance with the rules applicable to the reimbursement of travel and subsistence expenses of persons unconnected with the Commission who are called upon by it to act as experts.

1.   On-the-spot inspections shall be carried out at slaughterhouses, meat markets, intervention centres, price quotation centres and regional and central services implementing the provisions concerning:

2.   The on-the-spot inspections shall be carried out at regular intervals in Member States and their frequency may vary, in particular, according to the relative volume of beef, pig and sheep production in the visited Member States or to irregularities linked to the application of the classification scales and reporting of market prices.

Representatives of the visited Member State may take part in the on-the-spot-inspections.

Each Member State shall organise the on-the-spot inspections to be carried out on its territory according to the requirements set by the Commission. To that end, the Member State shall forward to the Commission, 60 days before the on-the-spot inspections at the latest, the draft programme of the proposed on-the-spot inspections. The Commission may request any amendment to the programme.

The Commission shall inform Member States, as far in advance as possible before each on-the-spot inspection, of the amendments to the programme and the conduct thereof.