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 [F1 other than the definitions of ‘appropriate authority’ and ‘third country’];

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; F2 ...

(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;

(c)

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

(d)

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

(e)

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

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Zoonotic Disease Eradication and Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/740), regs. 1, 3(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Word in Art. 2(3)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Zoonotic Disease Eradication and Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/740), regs. 1, 3(3)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Art. 2(3)(c)-(e) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Zoonotic Disease Eradication and Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/740), regs. 1, 3(3)(b)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1463, regs. 1(2)(a), 7(2)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)