F1ANNEX ISPECIFIC DEFINITIONS
F2F31.
For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions set out in Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council15, Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/201116, Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council17, Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council18, Council Directive 2006/88/EC19 and Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 of the European Parliament and of the Council20 shall apply:
- (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;
- (i)
- (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)
F4‘label’ in Article 3(2)(t);
- (i)
- (e)
Directive 2006/88/EC:
- (i)
‘aquaculture animal’ in Article 3(1)(b);
- (ii)
‘aquatic animal’ in Article 3(1)(e)F3;
- (i)
- (f)
F5the definition of ‘endangered breed’ in Article 2(24) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1012.
F62.
For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall also apply:
- (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;
- (i)
- (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 F10national reference laboratory’s technical handbook on TSE strain characterisation in small ruminants 21 ;
- (f)
‘ classical scrapie case ’ means a scrapie confirmed case classified as classical in accordance with the criteria laid down in the F11national 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 F12national 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 22 ;
- (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 F13national reference laboratory’s method for the classification of bovine TSE isolates 23 ;
- (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 F14national 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:
- (m)
F4‘ 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 F8;
- (o)
‘F9farmed 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.
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).