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  "legislation": "eudn/2008/654",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 24 July 2008 on guidelines to assist Member States in preparing the annual report on the single integrated multiannual national control plan provided for in Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2008) 3756) (Text with EEA relevance) (2008/654/EC)",
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  "path": "annex/division/4",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "DEFINITIONS",
  "text": "For the purpose of these guidelines the definitions laid down in the relevant Community legislation and, in particular, the definitions in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, Articles 2 and 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, Article 2 of Directive 2000/29/EC, Commission Decision 2006/677/EC 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, and Commission Decision 2007/363/EC of 21 May 2007 on guidelines to assist Member States in preparing the single integrated multiannual national control plan provided for in Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and the Council shall apply.\nIn addition the following definitions apply for the purposes of these guidelines:\n(a) ‘annual control programme’ means the annual programme for Community controls referred to in Article 45(4) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004;\n(b) ‘control strategy’ means the approach taken to determine the nature, frequency, time, point/stage of the production chain, method and techniques of official controls (refer to Section 3.7.2 of the Annex to Decision 2007/363/EC);\n(c) ‘national control plan’ means the single integrated multiannual national control plan provided for in Article 41 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 278, 10.10.2006, p. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 138, 30.5.2007, p. 24."
    }
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