(27) In order to ensure that the necessary rules for the proper functioning of the identification, registration and traceability of bovine animals and of beef are applied, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the requirements for alternative means of identification of bovine animals; the special circumstances in which Member States are to be permitted to extend the maximum periods for the application of the means of identification; data to be exchanged between the computerised databases of the Member States; the maximum period for certain reporting obligations; ...[+++] the requirements for the means of identification; the addition of means of identification to the list set out in Annex -I; the rules concerning the information from the computerised database to be included in the animal passports and in the individual registers to be kept on each holding; the identification and registration of movements of bovine animals when put out to seasonal grazing including transhumance ; rules for labelling certain products which should be equivalent to the rules laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000; the labelling provisions relating to a simplified presentation of the indication of origin for cases of very short stay of an animal in the Member State or third country of birth or of slaughter; and the definitions and requirements applicable to terms or categories of terms that may be put on the labels of pre-packed fresh and frozen beef and veal .

The products concerned in this agreement are boneless meat of bovine animals (Argentina), boneless buffalo meat (Argentina), as well as erga omnes increases in tariff rate quota on common wheat, barley, malting barley and maize.

For the purpose of this paragraph 100 kilograms of bone-in beef equals 77 kilograms of boneless beef.

Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2092/2004 of 8 December 2004 laying down detailed rules of application for an import tariff quota of dried boneless beef originating in Switzerland (7) provides for entries in all the languages of the Community.

Consequently, all the fresh beef which is placed on the Community market must be labelled in accordance with the provisions of that Regulation, irrespective of whether it is intended for retail sale or for supplying the catering sector.

– (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in July 2000, when the European Parliament and the Council approved a compulsory labelling system for fresh and frozen beef and veal marketed in the Community, that represented a first step towards greater transparency and the restoration of consumer confidence.