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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-363/annex/division-2/division-2.1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2007/363",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 21 May 2007 on guidelines to assist Member States in preparing the single integrated multi-annual national control plan provided for in Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2007) 2099) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/363/EC)",
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  "path": "annex/division/2/division/2.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2.1",
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  "text": "For the purposes of these guidelines, the definitions laid down in Articles 2 and 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 and other relevant Community legislation shall apply.\nIn particular, the following definitions set out in those Regulations are to be noted:\n(a) ‘food law’ means the laws, regulations and administrative provisions governing food in general, and food safety in particular, whether at Community or national level; it covers any stage of production, processing and distribution of food and also of feed produced for, or fed to, food producing animals. (Point 1 of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002);\n(b) ‘feed law’ means the laws, regulations and administrative provisions governing feed in general and feed safety in particular, whether at Community or national level; it covers all stages of production, processing and distribution of feed and the use of feed. (Point 3 of the second paragraph of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004);\n(c) ‘official control’ means any form of control that the competent authority or the Community performs for the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules. (Point 1 of the second paragraph of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004);\n(d) ‘competent authority’ means the central authority of a Member State competent for the organisation of official controls or any other authority to which that competence has been conferred; it shall also include, where appropriate, the corresponding authority of a third country. (Point 4 of the second paragraph of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004);\nWith regard to plant health, ‘competent authority’ includes the ‘single authority’ referred to in Article 1(4) of Directive 2000/29/EC and ‘responsible official bodies’ referred to in Article 2(1)(g) of that Directive;\nWith regard to organic production of agricultural products covered by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91, ‘competent authority’ includes the ‘authority’ designated for the reception of notifications provided for in Article 8(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 and the authority designated for the approval and supervision of private bodies as provided for in Article 9(4) of that Regulation;\n(e) ‘control body’ means an independent third party to which the competent authority has delegated certain control tasks. (Point 5 of the second paragraph of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004);\nWith regard to plant health, ‘control body’ includes ‘legal persons’ with delegated tasks as referred to in Article 2(1)(g) of Directive 2000/29/EC;\nWith regard to organic production of agricultural products covered by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91, ‘control body’ includes ‘approved private bodies’ referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91;\n(f) ‘control plan’ means a description established by the competent authority containing general information on the structure and organisation of its official control system. (Point 20 of the second paragraph of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004);\n(g) ‘risk’ means a function of the probability of an adverse health effect and the severity of that effect, consequential to a hazard. (Point 9 of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002);\nWith regard to plant health, ‘risk’ must be interpreted in accordance with Directive 2000/29/EC.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 198, 22.7.1991, p. 1."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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