CHAPTER IINTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

Article 2Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

  1. 1.

    the definitions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 F1other than the definitions of ‘appropriate authority’ and ‘third country’;

  2. 2.

    the definitions laid down in Directive 2003/99/EC; and

  3. 3.

    the following definitions:

    1. (a)

      ‘herd’ means an animal or group of animals kept on a holding as an epidemiological unit; F2...

    2. (b)

      ‘flock’ means all poultry of the same health status kept on the same premises or in the same enclosure and constituting a single epidemiological unit; in the case of housed poultry, this includes all birds sharing the same airspace;

    3. (c)

      F3‘the appropriate authority’ has the meaning given by Article 2A;

    4. (d)

      ‘constituent territory’ means England, Wales or Scotland, as the case may be;

    5. (e)

      ‘third country’ means a country or territory outside the British Islands.