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Law No. 41 Of 19 December 1975 On The Slaughter Of Animals

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 41 din 19 decembrie 1975 privind regimul tăierii animalelor

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LEGE No. 41 of 19 December 1975 on the treatment of animals
ISSUER GREAT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Published in OFFICIAL BULLETIN NO. 134 of 25 December 1975



+ Chapter 1 General provisions + Article 1 The cutting of animals belonging to state units, cooperative organizations and other public organizations is carried out in slaughterhouses or sections thereof, under the veterinary control of the state, according to the provisions of this law. + Article 2 The cutting of animals property of individuals, for family consumption, can be done in slaughterhouses and cutting sections of them, as payment services. The cutting of pigs, sheep and goats property of individuals, intended for family consumption, can also be done at the home of the holders, with the certification of the state of animal health by the constituency veterinarian. + Article 3 Animal cuts for the state meat fund will be carried out according to the tasks resulting from the single national economic-social development plan. + Article 4 Animals subject to cutting will have to live a corresponding weight depending on the species, category, age and breed, in order to ensure a high economic efficiency at valorisation. The minimum weights of the animals to which the cuts can be carried out, by species, categories, age and races, are approved, annually, by presidential decree. + Article 5 Cattle of any category will only be cut by meat industrialization enterprises. + Article 6 Socialist organizations will be able to buy cattle from enterprises authorized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry or will be able to purchase bovine youth weighing up to 150 kg only for growth, production and fattening, per the basis of empowerment given by these undertakings. Producers with individual households and members of agricultural production cooperatives can only sell and buy cattle for growth, production and fattening. These sales-purchases will be highlighted in the agricultural register. Cattle bought for growth and fattening will be harnessed to the state fund. + Article 7 The Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives is responsible for contracting and purchasing animals-except cattle-from households, according to the plan, as well as from their delivery to meat industrialization enterprises. The meat and other products resulting from the cutting of cattle are only purchased by the meat industrialization enterprises under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry. + Chapter 2 Conditions for cutting animals + Article 8 The following categories of animals may be subject to cuts: a) the healthy animals reached the economic weight established and which are not intended for breeding; b) healthy animals from units, localities or quarantine areas, which are cut to avoid contamination, regardless of weight, with the approval given, under the law, by the county veterinary organs or the municipality Bucharest, within which the animals are located; c) healthy animals, used for experimental purposes for scientific research, regardless of weight, on the basis of the approval of the research units, under the conditions and number provided for in the research plan; d) females declared unfit for production and breeding. The ranking of females in cattle and sheep for cutting is done by the state inspector veterinarian, attested by official documents, twice a year, and in case of need and other data requested by manufacturers, according to the norms approved by Council of Ministers. + Article 9 The cutting of animals will also be possible if they: a) are affected by incurable diseases with acute and overacute evolution, communicable diseases, as well as for the liquidation of epizootic outbreaks; b) have suffered traumatic, toxic or other accidents that could cause their death; c) are affected by diseases caused experimentally, for obtaining biological products, by the units profiled for this purpose; d) are suspected of diseases and are cut to specify the diagnosis. The cutting of animals in the situations provided for in the previous paragraph makes according to the norms issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, approved by the Council of + Article 10 The products resulting from the cut provided for in the previous article shall be a) meat and by-products, established "good for human consumption" on the basis of the certificate issued by the veterinary inspector of state, shall be used by slaughterhouses or cutting plants, with the exception of meat and by-products from the cutting of pigs, sheep and goats belonging to households and non-contracted to the state meat fund, which may be retained for their own consumption needs; b) meat and by-products, established "good conditioning for human consumption" on the basis of the certificate issued by the state inspector veterinarian, shall be capitalized according to the provisions of lett. a), after meeting the special conditions of consumption, provided by the norms established by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, with the consent of the Ministry of Health; c) the meat and by-products unfit for human consumption shall be used in accordance with veterinary rules + Article 11 Cutting females in a condition of diagnosable gestation is prohibited. Exceptions are the special cases, established by veterinarians state inspectors according to the state of animal health. + Chapter 3 Organization and operation of slaughter + Article 12 In order to ensure the hygiene and veterinary conditions for the cutting of animals and for the superior valorisation of meat and by-products, slaughterhouses or their cutting sections shall be established and operated in municipalities, towns and communes. Within their slaughterhouses and wards they will also operate capacities for superior meat processing as well as for the preservation and processing of by-products. + Article 13 Their slaughterhouses and sections carry out the cutting of animals for state and public socialist units and for individuals. The cutting of animals for public and collective consumption is done only in slaughterhouses. + Article 14 Slaughterhouses and animal cutting sections will necessarily have an endowment to ensure hygiene and veterinary conditions, as well as the possibility of collecting by-products. The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry sets out the technological norms on cutting animals in slaughterhouses and their wards and, with the consent of the Ministry of Health, the rules on meat + Article 15 The establishment in communes of slaughterhouses or animal cutting sections is established, depending on the volume of cuts, by the executive committees of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest. Within the slaughterhouses and communal cutting sections, capacities for the production and preservation of meat preparations will also be organized as services for the population. The slaughterhouses or cutting sections of the animals referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be organized and shall operate according Law no. 7/1971 on the organization and development of industrial activities, processing of agricultural products, construction and service provision in the units belonging to popular councils, agricultural, craft and consumer cooperation. The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry provides technical assistance for the slaughterhouses and cutting sections provided in par. 1 and establishes together with the executive committees of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest the program to equip them. + Article 16 In large units of animal breeding and fattening, which do not have their own slaughterhouses, for the situations provided in art. 9, can be organized, in compliance with the veterinary norms, animal cutting sections. + Article 17 The executive committees of the municipal folk councils and executive offices of the city and communal folk councils will take steps to reopen slaughterhouses and cutting sections that are currently decommissioned and are justified to be. rearranged, within 90 days from the receipt of the type, indicative projects provided for in art. 19 19 para. 2. The necessary materials and manpower will be provided from existing resources locally. + Article 18 The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry will ensure the development of cutting capacities at subordinate units, in relation to the increase of animal resources on each county, in order to avoid the transport of animals between counties. + Article 19 The location, design and execution of slaughterhouses and cutting sections of animals, as well as their related facilities, will be done in compliance with the legal provisions on the systematization of the territory and urban and rural localities, as well as sanitary and veterinary norms. The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry will develop type, indicative projects on the location, construction, endowment and operation of slaughterhouses and animal cutting sections. + Article 20 The operation of slaughterhouses and cutting sections of animals is allowed only if authorized by the state health and veterinary organs. The authorization may be withdrawn if the hygiene and prophylaxis rules and the conditions necessary for the smooth running of the veterinary activity are not ensured. + Article 21 Slaughterhouses and cutting sections of animals are obliged to capitalize on skins, hair, smooth, single horns and nails resulting from the cutting of animals destined for the state meat fund. + Article 22 In the case of cutting animals the property of individuals, for family consumption, in slaughterhouses or cutting wards, they will purchase, for a fee, according to the legal norms, the by-products resulting from the cutting that the holders do not use. Also, slaughterhouses and cutting sections will purchase from individuals who cut animals at home the by-products they do not use. + Article 23 The quantities of meat resulting from slaughter of animals by slaughterhouses for food establishments, canteens and other similar establishments will be communicated to meat industrialisation undertakings, constituting inputs to the state meat fund. and at the same time deliveries to the market. + Article 24 Cutting of animals in slaughterhouses and cutting sections provided in art. 15 will be carried out by persons authorized by the executive offices of the communal folk councils, with the opinion of the doctor from the medical dispensary within which the slaughterhouse or the respective section operates. + Chapter 4 Liabilities and penalties + Article 25 The violation of the provisions of this law attracts, as appropriate, disciplinary, material, civil, contravention or criminal liability. + Article 26 It is a crime and is punishable by imprisonment from 3 months to one year, or with a fine, the cutting of pregnant cows and heifers, except for those provided in art. 9 9 and art. 11 11 para. 2, as well as the cutting of cattle outside slaughterhouses, except for the cuts provided in art. 9. + Article 27 It constitutes contravention to the rules on the regime of cutting animals the following facts, if they are not enjoyed in such incit conditions, according to the criminal law, constitutes a crime: a) the cutting of pregnant females, other than those mentioned in art. 26 26; b) the cutting of pigs, sheep and goats at the home of the holders, without the certification of the state of the animal's health or in violation of the mandatory hygiene norms; c) cutting of animals in slaughterhouses and cutting wards by unauthorized persons; d) putting into consumption without trichineloscopic examination of the meat from the cut pigs for which this examination is mandatory according to the veterinary norms; e) the contracting or purchase of bovine animals for cutting or fattening, as well as the meat of bovine animals resulting from the cuts caused by the situations provided in art. 9, good for human consumption, in other conditions or by other persons, physical or legal, than those provided in art. 6 6 and 7; f) the cutting of animals for the state fund of meat, under the minimum weight established, except for those provided for in art. 9 9 and art. 11 11 para. 2. + Article 28 The contraventions provided in art. 27 27 shall be sanctioned as follows: a) with a fine of 500 to 700 lei, the contraventions provided in lett. a), b) and c); b) with a fine of 800 lei per 1,000 lei, those provided in lett. d) and e); c) with a fine of 100 to 250 lei, in case of cutting lambs, and from 200 to 1,000 lei, in the case of other species and categories of animals, for the contraventions provided in lett. f). Sanction for the contravention provided in art. 27 lit. e) also applies to legal entities. + Article 29 The finding of contraventions and the application of the sanction are made by minutes concluded by mayors, officers and subofficers of militia, veterinarians state inspectors and personnel specifically empowered by the Minister of Agriculture and Industry. Food. + Article 30 Against the minutes of finding the contravention you can make the complaint within 15 days from the date of its communication. The complaint accompanied by the copy of the minutes of finding shall be submitted to the body or unit to which the ascertaining agent belongs. + Article 31 The complaint is resolved by the head of the unit to which the ascertaining agent belongs or an authorized agent, hierarchically superior to the ascertaining agent. In the case of contraventions found by the mayor, the complaint is resolved by the committee or executive office of the popular council. + Article 32 Provisions art. 27-31 are completed with the provisions of Law no. 32/1968 establishing and sanctioning contraventions. + Chapter 5 Final provisions + Article 33 The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry will establish with the agreement of the Ministry of Health, mandatory hygiene rules on the cutting of animals at the home of the holders, no later than 60 days after the entry into force of the law. + Article 34 This law comes into force 30 days after the publication in the Official Bulletin of the Socialist Republic of Romania. On the same date, Decision of the Council of Ministers no. 676/1959 on certain measures for the development of animal husbandry and the regulation of cutting in certain categories of animals, published in the Collection of Decisions and provisions of the Council of Ministers no. 20 of 8 June 1959, as amended and supplemented, and any other provisions to the contrary, shall be repealed. --------------------------