Commission Regulation (EC) No 557/2007 (repealed)Show full title

Article 1 Definitions

The definitions in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1028/2006, Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 and points 5 and 7.3 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 shall apply as appropriate.

In addition, the following definitions shall apply for the purpose of this Regulation:

(a)

‘pack’ means a wrapping containing Class A or B eggs, excluding transport packaging and containers of industrial eggs;

(b)

‘loose sales’ means the offer for retail sale of eggs to the final consumer, other than in packs;

(c)

‘collector’ means any establishment registered in accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 to collect eggs from a producer for delivery to a packing centre, to a market selling exclusively to wholesalers whose undertakings are approved as packing centres, or to food and non-food industry;

(d)

‘sell-by date’ means the maximum time limit for delivery of the egg to the final consumer according to point 3 of Chapter I of Section X of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(e)

‘food industry’ means any establishment producing egg products intended for human consumption, excluding mass caterers;

(f)

‘non-food industry’ means any business producing products containing eggs not intended for human consumption;

(g)

‘mass caterers’ means the entities referred to in Article 1(2) of Directive 2000/13/EC;

(h)

‘industrial eggs’ means eggs not intended for human consumption;

(i)

‘batch’ means the eggs in packs or loose from one and the same production site or packing centre, situated in one place, in the same packs or loose, with one and the same laying date or date of minimum durability or packing date, the same farming method, and in the case of graded eggs, the same quality and weight grading;

(j)

‘repacking’ means the physical transfer of eggs to another pack or the re-marking of a pack containing eggs.