For the purpose of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

1. 1.
   ‘aquaculture’ means the activity defined in Article 3, paragraph (d) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1198/2006 of 27 July 2006 on the European Fisheries Fund10;
2. 2.

   ‘open aquaculture facility’ means a facility where aquaculture is conducted in an aquatic medium not separated from the wild aquatic medium by barriers preventing the escape of reared specimens or biological material that might survive and subsequently reproduce;

3. 3.

   ‘closed aquaculture facility’ means a facility where aquaculture is conducted in an aquatic medium, which involves recirculation of water and which is separated from the wild aquatic medium by barriers preventing the escape of reared specimens or biological material that might survive and subsequently reproduce;

4. 4.

   ‘aquatic organisms’ means any species living in water belonging to the animalia, plantae and protista kingdoms, including any part, gametes, seeds, eggs or propagules of their individuals that might survive and subsequently reproduce;

5. 5.

   ‘Polyploid organisms’ means artificially induced tetraploid organisms (4N). These are aquatic organisms in which the number of chromosomes in the cells has been doubled through cell manipulation techniques;

6. 6.

   ‘alien species’ means:

   1. (a)

      a species or subspecies of an aquatic organism occurring outside its known natural range and the area of its natural dispersal potential;

   2. (b)

      polyploid organisms, and fertile artificially hybridised species irrespective of their natural range or dispersal potential;

7. 7.

   ‘locally absent species’ means a species or subspecies of an aquatic organism which is locally absent from a zone within its natural range of distribution for biogeographical reasons;

8. 8.

   ‘non-target species’ means any species or subspecies of an aquatic organism likely to be detrimental to the aquatic environment that is moved accidentally together with an aquatic organism that is being introduced or translocated not including disease-causing organisms which are covered by Directive 2006/88/EC;

9. 9.

   ‘movement’ means introduction and/or translocation;

10. 10.

    ‘introduction’ means the process by which an alien species is intentionally moved to an environment outside its natural range for use in aquaculture;

11. 11.

    ‘translocation’ means the process by which a locally absent species is intentionally moved within its natural range for its use in aquaculture to an area where it previously did not exist because of bio-geographical reasons;

12. 12.

    ‘pilot release’ means the introduction of alien species or translocation of locally absent species on a limited scale to assess ecological interaction with native species and habitats in order to test the risk assessment assumptions;

13. 13.

    ‘applicant’ means the natural or legal person or entity proposing to conduct the introduction or translocation of an aquatic organism;

14. 14.

    ‘quarantine’ means a process by which aquatic organisms and any of their associated organisms can be maintained in complete isolation from the surrounding environment;

15. 15.

    ‘quarantine facility’ means a facility in which aquatic organisms and any of their associated organisms can be maintained in complete isolation from the surrounding environment;

16. 16.

    ‘routine movement’ means the movement of aquatic organisms from a source which has a low risk of transferring non-target species and which, on account of the characteristics of the aquatic organisms and/or the method of aquaculture to be used, for example closed systems as defined in 3, does not give rise to adverse ecological effects;

17. 17.

    ‘non-routine movement’ shall mean any movement of aquatic organisms which does not fulfil the criteria for routine movement;

18. 18.

    ‘receiving Member State’ shall mean the Member State into the territory of which the alien species is introduced or the locally absent species is translocated;

19. 19.

    ‘sending Member State’ means the Member State from the territory of which the alien species is introduced or the locally absent species is translocated.