No L 195/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 18. 8. 95 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1999/95 of 17 August 1995 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2456/93 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 as regards the general and special intervention measures for beef THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 424/95 (3, and in particular Article 6 (7) thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2456/93 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 200/95 (%), lays down in particular the conditions of eligibility to be met by products bought into intervention ; whereas provision should be made that for each of the tenders considered the category and quality of those products as well as the Member States or regions of a Member State where inter- vention is open are those as set out in the Annex of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1764/95 (%); Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2456/93 also laid down provisions relating to the procedure for take over by the intervention agency; whereas in order to improve the control of this procedure those detailed rules have to be completed in particular for preliminary inspection and the control of weights of the products bought in; whereas, to that end, the provisions relating to control of the boning of meat purchased by intervention agencies and the rejection of products should be strengthened ; Whereas, in order to improve the storage of the cuts and to simplify their identification it is advisable, on the one hand to standardize their wrapping and on the other hand to allow for their designation by a numerical Community code ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Beef and Veal, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 2456/93 is hereby amended as follows : () OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24. () O No L 45, 1. 3. 1995, p. 2. () OJ No L 225, 4. 9. 1993, p. 4. () O] No L 24, 1. 2. 1995, p. 120. () OJ No L 159, 10. 6. 1989, p. 36. () OJ No L 171, 21. 7. 1995, p. 37. - 1. Article 4 (2) is completed by the following paragraph : ‘(i) are of the categories and quality groups as set out in Annex of Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89 for each tender involved in the Member States or regions of a Member State mentioned in the said Annex’. 2. Article 17 is amended as follows : (a) paragraphs 1 to 4 are replaced by the following : ‘1. Take-over by the intervention agency shall take place : — in the case of bone-in meat intended for storage without further processing or for partial boning, either at the entrance weighing point of the intervention centre’s cold store or at the entrance weighing point of the intervention centre’s cutting plant, — in the case of bone-in meat intended for boning, at the entrance weighing point at the intervention centre’s cutting plant. Products delivered shall be accepted and taken over subject to verification by the intervention agency that they comply with the requirements laid down herein. Verification of compliance with the require- ments laid down in Article 4 (2) (¢) in particular shall be made by analysis of a sample. The sampling method and the consequences of a posi- tive result shall be as laid down in the relevant vete- rinary legislation. 2. Where no preliminary inspection is conducted immediately before loading at the slaughterhouse loading bay and prior to their trans- portation to the intervention centre, half carcases shall be identified as follows : — if they are only marked such markings shall comply with the provisions of Article 4 (3) (c) and a document specifying the identification or slaughter number together with the slaughter date for the half carcase shall be established, — if they are also labelled, the labels shall comply with the provisions of Article 1 (2), (3) and (4) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 344/91 (). If half carcases are cut into quarters the quartering shall be carried out in accordance with Annex V. The quarters shall be grouped for the purpose of the acceptance procedure by carcase or half carcase