Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/624 of 8 February 2019 concerning specific rules for the performance of official controls on the production of meat and for production and relaying areas of live bivalve molluscs in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) (c. 624)

Article 2U.K.Definitions

The following definitions shall apply for the purpose of this Regulation:

(1)

‘slaughterhouse’ means slaughterhouse as defined in point 1.16 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(2)

‘holding of provenance’ means the holding where the animals were last reared. In the case of semi-domesticated cervids as defined in point 2(q) of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1), it includes round-ups intended to select animals for slaughter;

(3)

‘production area’ means a production area as defined in point 2.5 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(4)

‘relaying area’ means a relaying area as defined in point 2.6 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(5)

‘staff designated by the competent authorities’ means a person other than the official auxiliary and the official veterinarian, who is qualified in accordance with this Regulation to act in such a capacity in cutting plants and to whom the competent authorities assign the performance of specific actions;

(6)

‘risk analysis’ means risk analysis as defined in Article 3(10) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council(2);

(7)

‘cutting plant’ means a cutting plant as defined in point 1.17 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(8)

‘poultry’ means poultry as defined in point 1.3 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(9)

‘lagomorphs’ means lagomorphs as defined in point 1.4 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(10)

‘food business operator’ means a food business operator as defined in Article 3(3) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

(11)

‘domestic ungulates’ means domestic ungulates as defined in point 1.2 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(12)

‘meat’ means meat as defined in point 1.1 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(13)

‘farmed game’ means farmed game as defined in point 1.6 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(14)

‘final consumer’ means a final consumer as defined in Article 3(18) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

(15)

‘retail’ means retail as defined in Article 3(7) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

(16)

‘establishment’ means an establishment as defined in Article 2(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004;

(17)

‘Low-capacity slaughterhouse’ means a slaughterhouse designated by the competent authorities on the basis of a risk analysis and in which slaughtering takes place only during part of the working day or takes place during the whole working day but not on each working day of the week;

(18)

‘Low-capacity game-handling establishment’ means a game-handling establishment designated by the competent authorities on the basis of a risk analysis and in which game-handling takes place only during part of the working day or takes place during the whole working day but not on each working day of the week;

(19)

‘livestock unit’ means a livestock unit as defined in Article 17(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009;

(20)

‘small wild game’ means small wild game as defined in point 1.7 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(21)

‘game-handling establishment’ means a game-handling establishment as defined in point 1.18 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(22)

‘dispatch centre’ means a dispatch centre as defined in point 2.7 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(23)

‘bivalve molluscs’ means bivalve molluscs as defined in point 2.1 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(24)

‘processing’ means processing as defined in Article 2(1)(m) of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004;

(25)

‘viscera’ means viscera as defined in point 1.12 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(26)

‘primary production’ means primary production as defined in Article 3(17) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

(27)

‘milk production holding’ means a milk production holding as defined in point 4.2 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004.

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1).

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1).