CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:
1. the definitions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 other than the definitions of ‘appropriate authority’ and ‘third country’;
2. the definitions laid down in Directive 2003/99/EC; and
3. the following definitions:
  1. ‘herd’ means an animal or group of animals kept on a holding as an epidemiological unit; ...
  2. ‘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 the case of housed poultry, this includes all birds sharing the same airspace;
  3. ‘the appropriate authority’ has the meaning given by Article 2A;
  4. ‘constituent territory’ means England, Wales or Scotland, as the case may be;
  5. ‘third country’ means a country or territory outside the British Islands.
Words in Art. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Zoonotic Disease Eradication and Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/740), regs. 1, 3(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Word in Art. 2(3)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Zoonotic Disease Eradication and Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/740), regs. 1, 3(3)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 2(3)(c)-(e) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Zoonotic Disease Eradication and Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/740), regs. 1, 3(3)(b)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1463, regs. 1(2)(a), 7(2)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)