The Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Charges) Regulations 1998
These Regulations implement in Great Britain the provisions relating to charges for meat hygiene inspections of Council Directive 85/73/EEC on the financing of veterinary inspections and controls covered by Directives 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 90/675/EEC and 91/496/EEC of which an amended and consolidated text is annexed to Council Directive 96/43/EC (OJ No. L162, 1.7.96, p.1). In pursuance of Article 4 of Council Directive 85/73/EEC, they also provide for a charge to be levied in relation to hygiene inspection at slaughter of other land mammals and birds for which no standard charge is specified. The charges encompass any monitoring of the welfare of animals slaughtered for human consumption in slaughterhouses carried out under the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/731).