Proposal for a regulation
Article 13
1. Operators shall put in place and implement appropriate monitoring procedures to verify and confirm that animals for slaughter are effectively stunned in the period between the end of the stunning process and the confirmation of death. 2. The monitoring procedures referred to in paragraph 1 shall include at least the following: (a) the name of the persons responsible for the monitoring procedure; (b) indicators designed to detect signs of unconsciousness and consciousness or sensibility in the animals subjected to killing operations in accordance with Article 4(1); or signs of life in animals subjected to slaughter operations in accordance with the first point of Article 4(2); (c) criteria of acceptability for determining whether or not the results of the indicators referred to in point (b) are satisfactory or not; (d) the circumstances and/or the time when the monitoring must take place; (e) the number of animals in each sample to be checked during the monitoring; (f) appropriate procedures to ensure that in the event that the criteria of acceptability referred to in point (c) are not met, the stunning or killing operations are reviewed in order to identify the causes of any shortcomings and the necessary changes to be made to those operations. 3. A monitoring procedure shall be put in place for each slaughterline where different stunning equipment is used 4. The frequency of the monitoring checks shall take into account the main risk factors, such as changes regarding the types of animals slaughtered or personnel working patterns and shall be established so as to ensure results with a high level of confidence. 5. Community codes of good practices concerning monitoring procedures in slaughterhouses may be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 22(2).Article 13 deleted Monitoring at slaughter