Article 4

1. By way of derogation from the first indent of Article 3, and subject to the application of paragraph 2, meat products may be intended for intra-Community trade, which are prepared in whole or in part from or with fresh meat as defined in Article 1 of Directive 64/433/EEC which fulfils the requirements laid down by Article 5a of Directive 72/461/EEC, may enter intra-Community trade if they have also undergone one of the following forms of treatment: (a) heat treatment in a hermetically sealed container, with an Fc value of 3 7 00 or more; where the fresh meat has been obtained from animals which do not come from an infected holding subject to prohibition measures pursuant to Article 3 (2) (b) of Directive 64/432/EEC: (i) heat treatment different from that referred to in (a) in which the internal temperature is raised to at least 70 ºC, or treatment consisting in natural fermentation and maturation of not less than nine months for boned or boneless hams weighing not less than 5 75 kg and having the following characteristics: - aw value of not more than 0 793, pH value of not more than 6. 2. Each Member State shall ensure that: (a) the fresh meat referred to in paragraph 1 is: (i) transported and stored separately from, or not at the same time as, the fresh meat referred to in Article 3, used in such a way as to avoid it being introduced into meat products intended for intra-Community trade other than those indicated in paragraph 1; the health certificate specified in Annex A, Chapter VIII of Directive 77/99/EEC contains, without prejudice to footnote (3) of that certificate, the following words under the heading "Nature of products" : "Treated in accordance with Article 4 (1) of Directive 80/215/EEC".

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-09 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.