For the purposes of this Directive:

• (a) ‘trade’

  trademeans trade as defined by Article 2 (3) of Directive 90/425/EEC;

• (b) ‘animals’
  means specimens of animal species other than those referred to in Directives 64/432/EEC, 90/426/EEC9, 90/539/EEC10, 91/67/EEC11, 91/68/EEC12, 91/492/EEC13 and 91/493/EEC14;
• (c) ‘approved body, institute or centre’

  means any permanent, geographically limited establishment, approved in accordance with Article 13, where one or more species of animal are habitually kept or bred, whether or not for commercial ends, and exclusively for one or more of the following purposes:

  • display of the animals and education of the public

  • conservation of the species;

  • basic or applied scientific research or breeding of animals for the purposes of such research;

• (d) ‘notifiable diseases’

  means the diseases listed in Annex A.

In addition, the definitions, other than those of approved centres and bodies, contained in Article 2 of Directives 64/432/EEC, 91/67/EEC and 90/539/EEC shall apply mutatis mutandis.