CHAPTER IGeneral provisions
Article 1
F1 X1This Directive lays down the animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova and embryos not subject to the animal health requirements laid down in the specific Community acts referred to in Annex F.
This Directive shall apply without prejudice to the provisions adopted pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82.
This Directive shall not affect the national rules applicable to pet animals, although their retention may not jeopardize the abolition of veterinary checks at the frontiers between Member States.
Article 2
1.
For the purposes of this Directive:
- (a) ‘trade’
trademeans trade as defined by Article 2 (3) of Directive 90/425/EEC;
- (b) ‘animals’
- (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.
2.
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.