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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-677/annex/division-3",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2006/677",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 29 September 2006 setting out the guidelines laying down criteria for the conduct of audits under Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls to verify compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules (notified under document number C(2006) 4026) (Text with EEA relevance) (2006/677/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-677",
  "path": "annex/division/3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of these guidelines, the definitions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, Articles 2 and 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, ISO 19011:2002 4 and ISO 9000:2000 apply.\nIn particular the following definitions from ISO 19011:2002 and ISO 9000:2000 should be noted:\n‘Audit criteria’ means the set of policies, procedures or requirements used as a reference against which audit evidence is compared, i.e. the standard against which the auditee’s activities are assessed.\n‘Audit plan’ means the description of the activities and arrangements for an audit.\n‘Audit programme’ means a set of one or more audits planned for a specific time frame and directed towards a specific purpose.\n‘Audit team’ means one or more auditors conducting an audit supported if needed by technical experts.\n‘Auditee’ means organisation being audited.\n‘Auditor’ means a person with the competence to conduct an audit.\n‘Corrective action’ means action to eliminate the cause of a detected non-conformity or other undesirable situation.\n‘Preventive action’ means action to eliminate the cause of a potential non-conformity or other undesirable situation.\n‘Technical expert’ means a person who provides specific knowledge or expertise to the audit team.\nFor the purposes of these Guidelines, the following definitions apply:\n‘Audit Body’ means the body that carries out the audit process. This may be an internal or external entity.\n‘Audit process’ means the set of activities described in Section 5.1. (Systematic Approach).\n‘Audit system’ means the combination of one or more audit bodies carrying out an audit process within or across competent authorities.\n‘Production chain’ means the whole production chain incorporating all ‘stages of production, processing and distribution’ as defined in Article 3(16) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "‘Guidelines for quality and/or environmental management systems auditing’, published by International Organisation for Standardisation, 1 October 2002."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "‘Quality management systems — Fundamentals and vocabulary’, published by the International Organisation for Standardisation, December 2000."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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