Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• F1“the Official Controls Regulation” means Regulation 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products;

• “animal” means any bovine animal, swine, soliped, sheep, goat, poultry, game or wild game;

• “animal product” means milk or eggs;

• “brown trout” means any fish of the species Salmo trutta which has spent all of its life in fresh water;

• “carcase” means the whole body of a slaughtered animal after bleeding and dressing;

• F2“competent authority” has the meaning given in Article 3(3)(a) of the Official Controls Regulation;

• “eggs” means hen eggs in shell, suitable for direct human consumption or for use in the food industry except for broken eggs, incubated eggs or cooked eggs;

• F3“fish” means any farmed fish;

• “game” means—

  1. (a)

     land mammals which are reared and slaughtered in captivity, excluding—

     1. (i)

        any living within an enclosed territory under conditions of freedom similar to those that they would enjoy if they were living in the wild,

     2. (ii)

        any bovine animal, swine, soliped, sheep or goat, and

     3. (iii)

        members of the Family Leporidae;

  2. (b)

     birds (including ratites but excluding poultry) which are not generally considered to be domestic but which are bred, reared and slaughtered in captivity; and

  3. (c)

     domestic rabbits;

• “milk” means cows’ milk;

• “poultry” means domestic fowls, turkeys, guinea fowls, ducks or geese;

• “rainbow trout” means fish of the species Oncorhynchus mykiss;

• “salmon” means fish of the species Salmo salar;

• “wild game” means—

  1. (a)

     wild land mammals which are hunted (including wild land mammals living within an enclosed area under conditions of freedom similar to those that they would enjoy if they were living in the wild); or

  2. (b)

     wild birds.