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Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

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[F1ANNEX I U.K. SPECIFIC DEFINITIONS

[F21. For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions set out in Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) , Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 (2) , Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) , Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4) and Council Directive 2006/88/EC (5) shall apply: U.K.

(a)

the definition of farmed animal in Article 3(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009;

(b)

the following definitions in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011:

(i)

fur animals in point 1;

(ii)

blood products in point 4;

(iii)

processed animal protein in point 5;

(iv)

fishmeal in point 7;

(v)

collagen in point 11;

(vi)

gelatine in point 12;

(vii)

hydrolysed proteins in point 14;

(viii)

canned petfood in point 16;

(ix)

petfood in point 19;

(x)

processed petfood in point 20;

(c)

the definition of feed in Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

(d)

Regulation (EC) No 767/2009:

(i)

feed materials in Article 3(2)(g);

(ii)

compound feed in Article 3(2)(h);

(iii)

complete feed in Article 3(2)(i);

(e)

Directive 2006/88/EC:

(i)

aquaculture animal in Article 3(1)(b);

(ii)

aquatic animal in Article 3(1)(e).]

[F32. For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall also apply: U.K.

(a)

BSE indigenous case means a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy which has not been clearly demonstrated to be due to infection prior to importation as a live animal;

(b)

cohort means a group of bovine animals which includes both:

(i)

animals born in the same herd as the affected bovine animal, and within 12 months preceding or following the date of birth of the affected bovine animal; and

(ii)

animals which at any time during the first year of their lives were reared together with the affected bovine animal during the first year of its life;

(c)

index case means the first animal on a holding, or in an epidemiologically defined group, in which a TSE infection is confirmed;

(d)

TSE in small ruminants means a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy case detected in an ovine or caprine animal following a confirmatory test for abnormal PrP protein;

(e)

scrapie case means a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy confirmed case in an ovine or caprine animal where a diagnosis of BSE has been excluded in accordance with the criteria laid down in the European Union reference laboratory’s technical handbook on TSE strain characterisation in small ruminants (6) ;

(f)

classical scrapie case means a scrapie confirmed case classified as classical in accordance with the criteria laid down in the European Union reference laboratory’s technical handbook on TSE strain characterisation in small ruminants;

(g)

atypical scrapie case means a scrapie confirmed case which is distinguishable from classical scrapie in accordance with the criteria laid down in the European Union reference laboratory’s technical handbook on TSE strain characterisation in small ruminants;

(h)

Prion protein genotype in ovine animals means a combination of two alleles as described in point 1 of Annex I to Commission Decision 2002/1003/EC (7) ;

(i)

BSE case means a case of BSE confirmed in a national reference laboratory according to the methods and protocols in point 3.1.(a) and (b) of Chapter C of Annex X;

(j)

classical BSE case means a BSE case classified as such in accordance with the criteria laid down in the European Union reference laboratory’s method for the classification of bovine TSE isolates (8) ;

(k)

atypical BSE case means a BSE case which cannot be classified as a classical BSE case in accordance with the criteria laid down in the European Union reference laboratory’s method for the classification of bovine TSE isolates;

(l)

ovine and caprine animals over 18 months of age means ovine and caprine animals:

(i)

whose age is confirmed by the registers or movement documents referred to in point 1(b), (c) and (d) of Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 (9) , or

(ii)

which have more than two permanent incisors erupted through the gum.] ]

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