Commission Regulation (EC) No 1981/2006Show full title

Article 2 Definitions

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

(a)

‘full validation procedure’ means the assessment through a ring trial involving national reference laboratories of the method performance criteria set by the applicant as compliant with the document entitled ‘Definition of minimum performance requirements for analytical methods of GMO testing’ referred to in point 1(B) of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 641/2004, and the assessment of the repeatability and trueness of the method provided by the applicant;

(b)

‘small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)’ means small and medium-sized enterprises as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC(1);

(c)

‘developing countries’ means beneficiary countries as referred to in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 of 27 June 2005 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences(2);

(d)

‘application’ where used without further specification, means an application for authorisation submitted in accordance with Article 5 or 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, including applications submitted under other Community legislation which are transformed or supplemented in accordance with Article 46 of that Regulation. It also refers to applications for renewal of authorisations according to Article 11 or 23 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 and modifications of authorisations according to Articles 9(2), 10, 21(2) or 22 of that Regulation, where the CRL is requested to test and validate a method of detection and identification.

(1)

OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36.

(2)

OJ L 169, 30.6.2005, p. 1.