PART 1General
Interpretation3
1
In these Regulations—
F3“Commission Decision 2009/177/EC” means Commission Decision 2009/177/EC implementing Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards surveillance and eradication programmes and disease-free status of Member States, zones and compartments;
F6“the competent authority” has the meaning given in regulation 3A;
F4“Decision 2015/1554” means Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1554 laying down rules for the application of Directive 2006/88/EC as regards requirements for surveillance and diagnostic methods;
F1...
“Directive 2006/88/EC” means Council Directive 2006/88/EC on animal health requirements for aquaculture animals and products thereof, and on the prevention and control of certain diseases in aquatic animals;
“England” includes the sea adjacent to England to a distance of 12 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured;
“inspector” means any person authorised by the competent authority to be an inspector for the purposes of these Regulations;
“listed disease” means—
- a
a disease listed in the second column of F5Annex 1A to Regulation (EC) No 1251/2008; or
- b
a disease listed in F9...Schedule 1 to these Regulations;
- a
“non-commercial installation” means any aquaculture production business in which aquatic animals are kept with no intention of placing them on the market;
“operator”, in relation to an aquaculture production business, a specialist transport business, processing establishment, non-commercial installation or put and take fishery, means any person who is responsible for the management of that business, establishment, installation or fishery;
“processing establishment” means any food business which is approved for processing aquaculture animals for food purposes in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004M1 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin, and which processes aquaculture animals under Part 4 of these Regulations or any provision in any Regulations made in relation to Scotland or Northern Ireland which has equivalent effect to that Part;
“Regulation (EC) No.1251/2008” means Commission Regulation (EC) No.1251/2008 on implementing Directive 2006/88/EC as regards conditions and certification requirements for the placing on the market and the import into the Community of aquaculture animals and products thereof and laying down a list of vector species;
“specialist transport business” means a business or undertaking which wholly or mainly transports live aquaculture animals in a mode of transport specially designed or adapted for that purpose; and
“Wales” has the meaning given in section 158 of the Government of Wales Act 2006.
2
Any expression used in these Regulations which is also used in Directive 2006/88/EC (except for the definitions of “operator” and “processing establishment” in paragraph (1) and “wild aquatic animal” in regulation 18(5)) has the meaning it bears in that Directive.
3
4
Schedule 1 (list of diseases) has effect.