The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Scotland) (No. 6) Regulations 2007

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations (unless the context requires otherwise)–

“ADNS” means the Animal Disease Notification System under Commission Decision 2005/176/EC of 1st March 2005 laying down the codified form and the codes for the notification of animal diseases pursuant to Council Directive 82/894/EEC(1);

“approved” means approved in accordance with regulation 3;

“Decision 2001/304” means Commission Decision 2001/304/EC on the marking and use of certain animal products(2);

“the Decision” means Commission Decision 2007/554/EC concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom and repealing Decision 2007/552/EC(3), as amended from time to time;

“dispatch” means dispatch from a place within the restricted area to a place outside the restricted area and includes consigning for dispatch;

“Directive 2002/99” means Council Directive 2002/99/EC laying down the animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption(4);

“export” includes consigning for export;

“farmed game” and “wild game” mean respectively a domestic or wild animal of a game species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease;

“inspector” means a person appointed by the Scottish Ministers or a local authority to be an

inspector for the purposes of–

(a)

these Regulations;

(b)

the Animal Health Act 1981(5);

(c)

the Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations 1996(6);

(d)

the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Regulations 2007(7); or

(e)

the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Scotland) Regulations 2007(8);

“HACCP” means Hazard Analysis at Critical Control Points, which is a system in which the critical points of the manufacturing process have been identified, assessments have been made of the potential risks at those points, and necessary steps have been taken to minimise those risks;

“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;

“official veterinarian” means a veterinarian who is–

(f)

qualified in accordance with Part A of Chapter IV of Section III of Annex I to Regulation 854/2004 to carry out the controls required of an official veterinarian under that Regulation; and

(g)

appointed by the Scottish Ministers;

“meat” means fresh meat, minced meat, mechanically separated meat and meat preparations as defined in points 1.10, 1.13, 1.14 or 1.15 of Annex 1 to Regulation 853/2004;

“Regulation 1774/2002” means Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption(9);

“Regulation 853/2004” means Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin(10);

“Regulation 854/2004” means Regulation (EC) No. 854/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption(11); and

“restricted area” means Great Britain.

(1)

O.J. No. L 59, 5.3.2005, p.40.

(2)

O.J. No. L 104, 13.4.2001, p 6.

(3)

O.J. No. L 210, 10.8.2007, p.36, as amended by Commission Decisions 2007/588/EC, 2007/608/EC, 2007/663/EC, 2007/664/EC and 2007/709/EC.

(4)

O.J. No. L 18, 23.1.2003, p.11.

(5)

1981 c. 22.

(6)

S.I. 1996/3124, as amended by S.I. 1997/3023, 1998/994, 1999/663, 2000/656 and, as regards Scotland, S.S.I. 2000/62, 171, 288 and 2001/169 and 257.

(7)

S.S.I. 2007/1, as amended by S.S.I. 2007/304.

(8)

S.S.I. 2007/194.

(9)

O.J. No. L 273, 10.10.2002, p.1 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 829/2007.

(10)

O.J. No. L 139, 30.4.2004, p.55.

(11)

O.J. No. L 139. 30.4.2004, p.206 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1791/2006.