Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687Show full title

Article 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, definitions laid down in Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 and Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1) shall apply, except where those definitions cover terms that are defined in the second paragraph of this Article.

In addition, the following definitions shall also apply:

(1)

‘means of transport’ means road or rail vehicle, vessels and aircrafts;

(2)

‘day-old chicks’ means poultry less than 72 hours old;

(3)

‘semen’ means the ejaculate of an animal or animals, either in the unaltered state or prepared or diluted;

(4)

‘oocytes’ means the haploid stages of the ootidogenesis including secondary oocytes and ova;

(5)

‘embryo’ means the initial stage of development of an animal while it is capable of being transferred to a recipient dam;

(6)

‘fresh meat’ means meat, minced meat and meat preparations, including vacuum-wrapped or wrapped in a controlled atmosphere, which has not undergone any process other than chilling, freezing or quick-freezing;

(7)

‘carcass of an ungulate’ means the whole body of a slaughtered or killed ungulate after:

• bleeding, in the case of slaughtered animals,

• evisceration,

• removal of the limbs at the carpus and tarsus,

• removal of the tail, the udder, the head and the skin, except in porcine animals;

(8)

‘offal’ means fresh meat other than that of the carcass as defined in (7), even if it remains naturally connected to the carcass;

(9)

‘meat products’ means processed products, including treated stomachs, bladders, intestines, rendered fats, meat extracts and blood products, resulting from the processing of meat or from the further processing of such processed products, so that the cut surface shows that the product no longer has the characteristics of fresh meat;

(10)

‘casings’ means the bladders and intestines that after cleaning have been processed by tissue scraping, defatting and washing and have been dried after salting;

(11)

‘colostrum’ means the fluid secreted by the mammary glands of kept animals up to five days post parturition that is rich in antibodies and minerals, and precedes the production of raw milk.

(12)

‘colostrum-based products’ means processed products resulting from the processing of colostrum or from the further processing of such processed products;

(13)

‘safe commodity’ means a commodity that can be moved without the need for risk mitigation measures specifically directed against a particular listed disease regardless of the status of the Member State or zone of origin for that disease;

(14)

‘supply chain’ means an integrated production chain of a common health status as regards listed diseases consisting of a collaborative network of specialised establishments approved by the competent authority for the purpose of Article 45, between which animals are moved to complete the production cycle;

(15)

‘infected zone’ means a zone in which restrictions on the movements of kept and wild animals or products and other disease control and biosecurity measures may be applied with the view to preventing the spread of a category A disease in the event of official confirmation of the disease in wild animals.

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55).