Directive 2003/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:

1.

the definitions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, and

2.

the following definitions:

(a)

‘zoonosis’ means any disease and/or infection which is naturally transmissible directly or indirectly between animals and humans;

(b)

‘zoonotic agent’ means any virus, bacterium, fungus, parasite or other biological entity which is likely to cause a zoonosis;

(c)

‘antimicrobial resistance’ means the ability of micro-organisms of certain species to survive or even to grow in the presence of a given concentration of an antimicrobial agent, that is usually sufficient to inhibit or kill micro-organisms of the same species;

(d)

‘food-borne outbreak’ means an incidence, observed under given circumstances, of two or more human cases of the same disease and/or infection, or a situation in which the observed number of cases exceeds the expected number and where the cases are linked, or are probably linked, to the same food source;

(e)

‘monitoring’ means a system of collecting, analysing and disseminating data on the occurrence of zoonoses, zoonotic agents and antimicrobial resistance related thereto.