Glossary:Slaughtering and meat production
Data on slaughtering and meat production are collected on a monthly basis. They refer to the activity of slaughterhouses, while the share of domestic slaughtering (i.e. outside officially recognized slaughterhouses) is now explicitly being left out of the figures in order to improve comparability of the results across Member States, with a break in the time series however. The slaughtering meat production combined with the balance of external trade for live animals make an estimation of the gross indigenous production possible.
The legal basis of the data collection on slaughering and meat production is, like for the Livestock survey, Regulation 1165/2008 of 19 November 2008 concerning livestock and meat statistics.
Further information
- Livestock and meat (ESMS metadata file — apro_mt_esms)
- Regulation 1165/2008 of 19 November 2008 concerning livestock and meat statistics (legal text)