CHAPTER I

GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
1
This Directive lays down animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries of, poultry and hatching eggs.
2
This Directive shall not apply to poultry for exhibitions, show or contests.
Article 2
For the purposes of this Directive ‘official veterinarian’ and ‘third country’ mean the official veterinarian and third countries as defined in Council Directive 2004/68/EC of 26 April 2004 laying down animal health rules for the importation into and transit through the Community of certain live ungulate animals .
The following definitions shall also apply:
1. ‘poultry’ means fowl, turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks, geese, quails, pigeons, pheasants, partridges and ratites (Ratitae) reared or kept in captivity for breeding, the production of meat or eggs for consumption, or for re-stocking supplies of game;
2. ‘hatching eggs’ means eggs for incubation, laid by poultry;
3. ‘day-old chicks’ means all poultry less than 72 hours old, not yet fed; however, muscovy ducks (Cairina moschata) or their crosses may be fed;
4. ‘breeding poultry’ means poultry 72 hours old or more, intended for the production of hatching eggs;
5. ‘productive poultry’ means poultry 72 hours old or more, reared for the production of meat and/or eggs for consumption (or for restocking supplies of game);
6. ‘slaughter poultry’ means poultry sent direct to a slaughterhouse for slaughter as soon as possible after arrival, and in any case within 72 hours;
7. ‘flock’ means all poultry of the same health status kept on the same premises or in the same enclosure and constituting a single epidemiological unit. In housed poultry this will include all birds sharing the same airspace;
8. ‘holding’ means a facility – which may include an establishment – used for the rearing or keeping of breeding or productive poultry;
9. ‘establishment’ means a facility or part of a facility which occupies a single site and is devoted to the following activities:
  1. pedigree breeding establishment: an establishment which produces hatching eggs for the production of breeding poultry;
  2. breeding establishment: an establishment which produces hatching eggs for the production of productive poultry;
  3. rearing establishment:
    1. either a breeding poultry-rearing establishment which is an establishment which rears breeding poultry prior to the reproductive stage;
or
    2. a productive poultry-rearing establishment which is an establishment which rears egg-laying productive poultry prior to the laying stage;
  4. hatchery: an establishment which incubates and hatches eggs and supplies day-old chicks;
10. ‘authorised veterinarian’ means a veterinarian instructed by the competent veterinary authority, under its responsibility, to carry out the checks provided for in this Directive in a particular establishment;
11. ‘approved laboratory’ means a laboratory located in the territory of a Member State, approved by the competent veterinary authority, under its responsibility, for the purpose of carrying out the diagnostic tests provided for in this Directive;
12. ‘health inspection’ means a visit by the official veterinarian or authorised veterinarian for the purpose of inspecting the health status of all the poultry in an establishment;
13. ‘compulsorily notifiable diseases’ means the diseases listed in Annex V;
14. ‘outbreak’ means an outbreak as defined in Council Directive 82/894/EEC of 21 December 1982 on the notification of animal diseases within the Community ;
15. ‘quarantine station’ means facilities where the poultry is kept in complete isolation and away from direct or indirect contact with other poultry, so as to permit long-term observation and testing for the diseases listed in Annex V;
16. ‘sanitary slaughter’ means the destruction, subject to all the necessary health safeguards including disinfection, of all poultry and products which are infected or suspected of being contaminated.
OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 321.
OJ L 378, 31.12.1982, p. 58.