Division 2 F1F2

For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall also apply:

1. (a)

   ‘ BSE indigenous case ’ means a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy which has not been clearly demonstrated to be due to infection prior to importation as a live animal;

2. (b)

   ‘ cohort ’ means a group of bovine animals which includes both:

   1. (i)

      animals born in the same herd as the affected bovine animal, and within 12 months preceding or following the date of birth of the affected bovine animal; and

   2. (ii)

      animals which at any time during the first year of their lives were reared together with the affected bovine animal during the first year of its life;

3. (c)

   ‘ index case ’ means the first animal on a holding, or in an epidemiologically defined group, in which a TSE infection is confirmed;

4. (d)

   ‘ TSE in small ruminants ’ means a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy case detected in an ovine or caprine animal following a confirmatory test for abnormal PrP protein;

5. (e)

   ‘scrapie case’ means a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy confirmed case in an ovine or caprine animal where a diagnosis of BSE has been excluded in accordance with the criteria laid down in the F3national reference laboratory’s technical handbook on TSE strain characterisation in small ruminants ^f1 ;

6. (f)

   ‘ classical scrapie case ’ means a scrapie confirmed case classified as classical in accordance with the criteria laid down in the F4national reference laboratory’s technical handbook on TSE strain characterisation in small ruminants;

7. (g)

   ‘ atypical scrapie case ’ means a scrapie confirmed case which is distinguishable from classical scrapie in accordance with the criteria laid down in the F5national reference laboratory’s technical handbook on TSE strain characterisation in small ruminants;

8. (h)

   ‘Prion protein genotype’ in ovine animals means a combination of two alleles as described in point 1 of Annex I to Commission Decision 2002/1003/EC ^f2 ;

9. (i)

   ‘ BSE case ’ means a case of BSE confirmed in a national reference laboratory according to the methods and protocols in point 3.1.(a) and (b) of Chapter C of Annex X;

10. (j)

    ‘classical BSE case’ means a BSE case classified as such in accordance with the criteria laid down in the F6national reference laboratory’s method for the classification of bovine TSE isolates ^f3 ;

11. (k)

    ‘ atypical BSE case ’ means a BSE case which cannot be classified as a classical BSE case in accordance with the criteria laid down in the F7national reference laboratory’s method for the classification of bovine TSE isolates;

12. (l)

    ‘ ovine and caprine animals over 18 months of age ’ means ovine and caprine animals:

    1. (i)

       whose age is confirmed by the registers or movement documents referred to in point 1(b), (c) and (d) of Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 ^f4 , or

    2. (ii)

       which have more than two permanent incisors erupted through the gum F8;

13. (m)

    F9‘ farmed insects ’ means farmed animals, as defined in Article 3(6)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009, of those insect species which are authorised for the production of processed animal protein in accordance with point 2 of Part A of Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex X to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011;

14. (n)

    ‘home compounders’ means livestock farmers who mix compound feed for the exclusive use on their own holding F10;

15. (o)

    ‘F11farmed and captive cervids’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are kept by humans in an enclosed territory;

16. (p)

    ‘wild cervids’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are not kept by humans;

17. (q)

    ‘semi-domesticated cervids’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are kept by humans although not in an enclosed territory.