CHAPTER IU.K.GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 2U.K.Definitions

1.For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) animal by-products

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entire bodies or parts of animals or products of animal origin referred to in Articles 4, 5 and 6 not intended for human consumption, including ova, embryos and semen;

(b) Category 1 material

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animal by-products referred to in Article 4;

(c) Category 2 material

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animal by-products referred to in Article 5;

(d) Category 3 material

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animal by-products referred to in Article 6;

(e) animal

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any vertebrate or invertebrate animal (including fish, reptiles and amphibians);

(f) farmed animal

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any animal that is kept, fattened or bred by humans and used for the production of food (including meat, milk and eggs), wool, fur, feathers, skins or any other product of animal origin;

(g) wild animal

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any animal not kept by humans;

(h) pet animal

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any animal belonging to species normally nourished and kept, but not consumed, by humans for purposes other than farming;

(i) competent authority

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the central authority of a Member State competent to ensure compliance with the requirements of this Regulation or any authority to which that central authority has delegated that competence, in particular for the control of feedingstuffs; it shall also include, where appropriate, the corresponding authority of a non-member country;

(j) placing on the market

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any operation the purpose of which is to sell animal by-products, or products derived therefrom covered by this Regulation, to a third party in the Community or any other form of supply against payment or free of charge to such a third party or storage with a view to supply to such a third party;

(k) trade

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trade between Member States in goods within the meaning of Article 23(2) of the Treaty;

(l) transit

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a movement through the Community from one non-member country to another;

(m) producer

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any person whose activity produces animal by-products;

(n) TSEs

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all transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, except those occurring in humans;

(o) specified risk material

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material referred to in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies(1).

2.The specific definitions set out in Annex I shall also apply.

(1)

OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1326/2001 (OJ L 177, 30.6.2001, p. 60).