Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2002Show full title

Article 2 Definitions

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

(1)

‘category B disease’ means a listed disease which must be controlled in all Member States with the goal of eradicating it throughout the Union, as referred to in Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429;

(2)

‘category C disease’ means a listed disease which is of relevance to some Member States and for which measures are needed to prevent it from spreading to parts of the Union that are officially disease-free or that have eradication programmes for the listed disease concerned, as referred to in Article 9(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429;

(3)

‘category E disease’ means a listed disease for which there is a need for surveillance within the Union, as referred to in Article 9(1)(e) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429;

(4)

‘primary outbreak’ means an outbreak not epidemiologically linked with a previous outbreak in the same notification and reporting region of a Member State or the first outbreak in a different notification and reporting region of the same Member State;

(5)

‘secondary outbreak’ means an outbreak other than a primary outbreak;

(6)

‘Animal Disease Information System (ADIS)’ means the computerised information system for Union notification and Union reporting of diseases referred to in Article 22 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 that is to be set up and managed by the Commission;

(7)

‘territorial scope’ means the territory covered by the eradication programme in accordance with Article 13 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689 as regards terrestrial animals and in accordance with Article 47 of that Delegated Regulation as regards aquatic animals;

(8)

‘duration of the eradication programme’ means the period of application of the eradication programme in accordance with Article 15 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689 as regards terrestrial animals and in accordance with Article 49 of that Delegated Regulation as regards aquatic animals.