Article 2
For the purposes of this Directive:
1. ‘holding’ means any establishment (agricultural or other) situated in the territory of a Member State, in which animals are reared or kept;
2. ‘case’ means the official confirmation of any of the dieseases listed in Annex I in any animal or carcase;
3. ‘outbreak’ means the holding or place situated in the territory of the Community where animals are assembled and where one or more cases has or have been officially confirmed;
4. ‘primary outbreak’ means an outbrake not epizootiologically linked with a previous outbreak in the same region of a Member State as defined in Article 2 of Directive 64/432/EEC or the first outbreak in a different region of the same Member State.