Article 16

1. A label shall not contain any information relating to the animal from which the beef originates other than that which appears in the following list: Member State, third country or holding of birth, Member States, third countries or holdings where all or any part of fattening took place, with partial fattening having to be specified, Member State, third country or slaughterhouse where slaughter took place, identification number and sex of the animal, method of fattening or other information relating to feeding, information on slaughtering, such as the age at slaughter and the date of slaughter or the period during which the beef was matured, any other information which the operator or the organization wishes to indicate and to which the competent authority concerned has agreed. If beef originates from an animal born, raised and slaughtered in one and the same Member State, the mention of that Member State on the label shall suffice. 2. Where beef from different animals is mixed, the label shall contain only information which is common to all such beef. 3. Every label shall contain a reference number or reference code ensuring the link provided for in the second sentence of Article 14 (2). This number may be the identification number of the animal concerned.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-10 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.