When prepared from chilled meat, minced meat must be prepared:

The products affected are lambs, live sheep and goats, fresh, chilled and frozen meat from sheep or goats, edible offal, fats and other prepared or preserved meat and offal from sheep or goats.

CN code Description Third country concerned and quantity Chile Other third countries (a) 0104 Live sheep and goats: 0104 10 30 Lambs (up to a year old) (b) 0104 10 80 and Other sheep other than pure bred breeding animals (b) 0 50 0104 20 90 Live goats and other than pure bred breeding animals (b) 0204 Meat of sheep or goats: Fresh or chilled 0 100 Frozen 1 490 100 (c)

After post mortem inspection, wild game meat must be chilled or frozen and kept at a temperature which must not at any time exceed 4 oC in the case of small wild game and 7 oC in the case of large wild game if chilled or -12 oC if frozen.

2. Member States shall also notify the Commission on the 15th day of each month for each non-member country of origin of the price of imported live lamb and of the wholesale prices of the following imported lamb products which would be reported to them by traders or other competent market observers in respect of the preceding calendar month indicating both their importance in volume terms and the precise stage of price formation concerned ; carcases and half carcases of lambs, fresh or chilled ; short forequarters of lamb, fresh or chilled ; chines and or best ends of lamb, fresh or chilled ; legs of lamb, fresh or chilled ; other c ...[+++]uts of lamb, fresh or chilled ; boneless cuts of lamb, fresh or chilled ; carcases and half carcases of lamb, frozen ; short forequarters of lamb, frozen ; chines and or best ends of lamb frozen ; legs of lamb, frozen ; other cuts of lamb, frozen ; boneless cuts of lamb, frozen.

Whereas meat which has first been frozen throughout and later partially or totally de-frozen cannot be regarded as fresh or chilled meat ; whereas the freezing of meat brings about changes in its structure which remain when the meat is de-frozen;