Commentaries: Art. 49

The Federal Council shall issue directives and criteria for classifying the quality of slaughtered cattle, horses, pigs, sheep and goats.
It may:
1. declare the use of these classification criteria to be mandatory;
2. require quality classification to be carried out by a neutral agency in certain cases;
3. ¹ regulate the procedure for ascertaining the carcass weight.
The Federal Council may delegate the task of determining the classification criteria to the FOAG.

Inserted by Annex No II 6 of the Foodstuffs Act of 20 June 2014, in force since 1 May 2017 (AS 2017 249;BBl 2011 5571). ↩

Art. 49