Slaughter: Implementation - official ante-mortem inspection

If you slaughter animals whose meat is intended for human consumption, you must have the animals officially inspected before and after slaughter. This concerns:

• Cattle
• Pigs
• Sheep
• Goats
• horses and other ungulates,
• Poultry
  • shall not apply in the case of the supply of meat of no more than 10,000 head per year of poultry slaughtered annually on their own farm directly to consumers or to local retail establishments for direct supply to consumers,
• Lagomorphs
  • does not apply in the case of the supply of meat of a maximum of 10,000 head per year slaughtered on the farm's own farm directly to consumers or to local retail establishments for direct supply to consumers,
• Farmed game.

The obligation to inspect also applies to domestic slaughter.