Article 2U.K.

For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) ‘holding’

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agricultural or other establishment where animals of species susceptible to bluetongue are permanently or temporarily reared or kept;

(b) ‘susceptible species’

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all ruminants;

(c) ‘animal(s)’

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animal(s) belonging to a susceptible species, excluding wild animals with regard to which specific provisions may adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 20(2);

(d) ‘owner’ or ‘holder’

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the natural or legal person(s) owning the animals or responsible for their upkeep, whether in return for payment or not;

(e) ‘vector’

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an insect of the species Culicoides imicola or any other insect of the genus Culicoides capable of transmitting bluetongue, to be identified according to the procedure laid down in Article 20(2), on the advice of the Scientific Veterinary Committee;

(f) ‘suspicion’

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appearance of any clinical sign suggesting bluetongue in a susceptible species, together with a set of epidemiological data enabling such a possibility to be reasonably envisaged;

(g) ‘confirmation’

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the declaration by the competent authority, based on laboratory results, that the bluetongue virus is circulating in a specific area; however, in the event of an epidemic, the competent authority may also confirm the presence of the disease on the basis of clinical and/or epidemiological results;

(h) ‘competent authority’

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the central authority of the Member State competent to conduct veterinary checks, or any other veterinary authority to which it has delegated this competence;

(i) ‘official veterinarian’

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the veterinarian designated by the competent authority[F1;]

[F2(j) ‘live attenuated vaccines’

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vaccines which are produced by adapting bluetongue virus field isolates through serial passages in tissue culture or in embryonated hens’ eggs.]

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