11. 10. 95 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 243/7 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 95/23/EC of 22 June 1995 amending Directive 64/433/EEC on conditions for the production and marketing of fresh THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ('), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas  Directive  64/433/EEC {*)  regulates  the production and marketing of fresh meat of bovine animals, swine, sheep and goats and domestic solipeds; Whereas the regulations for low-capacity establishments eligible for approval under simplificd structure and infrastructure criteria  should be simplified, to take account of particular circumstances and of the principle of subsidiarity; Whereas hygiene requirements should be defined for the production and marketing of sliced offal; Whereas the regulations on accompanying documents can be simplified; Whereas meat from low-capacity establishments should comply only with gencral hygiene requirements for meat production and marketing and for this reason may be not marked with the Community stamp and be the subject of trade; Whereas the maximum handling limits for low-capacity slaughterhouses and cutting plants should be aligned on those laid down in Council Directive 92/120/EEC of 17 December 1992 on the conditions for granting temporary and limited derogations from specific Community health rules on the production and marketing of certain products of animal origin (*); (') O] No C 224, 12. 8. 1994, p. 15. (*) OJ No C 109, 1. 5. 1995. (" O] No C 397, 31. 12. 1994, p. 18. () OJ No 121, 29. 7. 1994, p. 2012/64. Directive as updated by Directive 91/497/EEC (O] No L 268, 24. 9. 1991, p. 69) and as last amended by the 1994 Act of Accession. () O] No L 62, 15. 3. 1993, p. 86. Whereas, however, account should be taken of certain specific situations in applying these limits; Whereas experience has shown the need to amend the Directive 64/433/EEC on a number of technical points which have caused problems of practical application, HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: Article 1 Directive 64/433/EEC is hereby amended as follows: (1) The following point shall be added to Article 2: ‘(o) “repackaging centre” means a workshop or depot where wrapped meet intended for placing on the market is reassembled and/or repackaged. (2) Article 3 (1) shall be amended as follows: {a) Section A (a) shall be replaced by the following: ‘(a) have been obtained in a slaughterhouse meeting the conditions laid down in Chapters 1 and 1l of Annex 1 and approved and supervised in accordance with Article 105 (b) in Section A (f): (ba) subdivision (ii) shall be replaced by the following: ‘(i) an  accompanying  commercial document which must: — be drawn up by the dispatching establishment, — in addition to the particulars provided for in point 50 of Chapter X of Annex I, bear the veterinary approval number of the approved establishment and in the case of frozen meat, the month and year of freezing in clear, — for meat intended for Finland and Sweden, bear one of the indications provided for in the third indent of Part IV of Annex 1V,