Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the control of salmonella and other specified food-borne zoonotic agents (c. 2160)

CHAPTER I U.K. INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

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

1.

the definitions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

2.

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

3.

the following definitions:

(a)

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

(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.