Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilDangos y teitl llawn

[F1 ANNEX I U.K. SPECIFIC DEFINITIONS

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1234/2003 of 10 July 2003 amending Annexes I, IV and XI to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 1326/2001 as regards transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and animal feeding (Text with EEA relevance).

[F2 1. 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);

(iv)

[F3 ‘ label ’ in Article 3(2)(t);]

(e)

Directive 2006/88/EC:

(i)

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

(ii)

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

Textual Amendments

F3 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/893 of 24 May 2017 amending Annexes I and IV to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annexes X, XIV and XV to Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards the provisions on processed animal protein (Text with EEA relevance).

Textual Amendments

F2 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 56/2013 of 16 January 2013 amending Annexes I and IV to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Text with EEA relevance).

[F4 2. 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 [F5 ;]

(m)

[F3 ‘ farmed insects ’ means farmed animals, as defined in Article 3(6)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009, of those insect species which are authorised for the production of processed animal protein in accordance with point 2 of Part A of Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex X to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011;

(n)

‘ home compounders ’ means livestock farmers who mix compound feed for the exclusive use on their own holding [F6 ;] ]

(o)

‘ [F7 farmed and captive cervids ’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are kept by humans in an enclosed territory;

(p)

‘ wild cervids ’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are not kept by humans;

(q)

‘ semi-domesticated cervids ’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are kept by humans although not in an enclosed territory.] ] ]

Textual Amendments

F5 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/893 of 24 May 2017 amending Annexes I and IV to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annexes X, XIV and XV to Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards the provisions on processed animal protein (Text with EEA relevance).

F6 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1972 of 30 October 2017 amending Annexes I and III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards a surveillance programme for chronic wasting disease in cervids in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden and repealing Commission Decision 2007/182/EC (Text with EEA relevance).

F7 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1972 of 30 October 2017 amending Annexes I and III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards a surveillance programme for chronic wasting disease in cervids in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden and repealing Commission Decision 2007/182/EC (Text with EEA relevance).

Textual Amendments

F4 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 630/2013 of 28 June 2013 amending the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Text with EEA relevance).

(1)

[F1 [F2 OJ L 300, 14.11.2009, p. 1 .] ]

(2)

[F1 [F2 OJ L 54, 26.2.2011, p. 1 .] ]

(3)

[F1 [F2 OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1 .] ]

(4)

[F1 [F2 OJ L 229, 1.9.2009, p. 1 .] ]

(5)

[F1 [F2 OJ L 328, 24.11.2006, p. 14 .] ]

(6)

[F1 [F4 http://vla.defra.gov.uk/science/docs/sci_tse_rl_handbookv4jan10.pdf] ]

(7)

[F1 [F4 OJ L 349, 24.12.2002, p. 105 .] ]

(8)

[F1 [F4 http://vla.defra.gov.uk/science/docs/sci_tse_rl_2blot.pdf] ]

(9)

[F1 [F4 OJ L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 8 .] ]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1234/2003 of 10 July 2003 amending Annexes I, IV and XI to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 1326/2001 as regards transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and animal feeding (Text with EEA relevance).

F2 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 56/2013 of 16 January 2013 amending Annexes I and IV to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Text with EEA relevance).

F4 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 630/2013 of 28 June 2013 amending the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Text with EEA relevance).