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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-999/annex-I/division-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2001/999",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-999",
  "path": "annex/I/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall also apply:\n(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;\n(b) ‘ cohort ’ means a group of bovine animals which includes both:\n(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\n(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;\n(c) ‘ index case ’ means the first animal on a holding, or in an epidemiologically defined group, in which a TSE infection is confirmed;\n(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;\n(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 national reference laboratory’s technical handbook on TSE strain characterisation in small ruminants ;\n(f) ‘ classical scrapie case ’ means a scrapie confirmed case classified as classical in accordance with the criteria laid down in the national reference laboratory’s technical handbook on TSE strain characterisation in small ruminants;\n(g) ‘ atypical scrapie case ’ means a scrapie confirmed case which is distinguishable from classical scrapie in accordance with the criteria laid down in the national reference laboratory’s technical handbook on TSE strain characterisation in small ruminants;\n(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 ;\n(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;\n(j)‘classical BSE case’ means a BSE case classified as such in accordance with the criteria laid down in the national reference laboratory’s method for the classification of bovine TSE isolates ;\n(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 national reference laboratory’s method for the classification of bovine TSE isolates;\n(l) ‘ ovine and caprine animals over 18 months of age ’ means ovine and caprine animals:\n(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 , or\n(ii) which have more than two permanent incisors erupted through the gum ;\n(m) ‘ 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;\n(n)‘home compounders’ means livestock farmers who mix compound feed for the exclusive use on their own holding ;\n(o)‘farmed and captive cervids’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are kept by humans in an enclosed territory;\n(p)‘wild cervids’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are not kept by humans;\n(q)‘semi-domesticated cervids’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are kept by humans although not in an enclosed territory.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1234/2003 of 10 July 2003 amending Annexes I, IV and XI to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 1326/2001 as regards transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and animal feeding (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 630/2013 of 28 June 2013 amending the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Annex 1 para. 2(e) substituted (13.12.2022) by The Animals and Animal Health, Feed and Food, Plants and Plant Health (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1315), regs. 1(1), 14(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Annex 1 para. 2(f) substituted (13.12.2022) by The Animals and Animal Health, Feed and Food, Plants and Plant Health (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1315), regs. 1(1), 14(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Annex 1 para. 2(g) substituted (13.12.2022) by The Animals and Animal Health, Feed and Food, Plants and Plant Health (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1315), regs. 1(1), 14(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Annex 1 para. 2(j) substituted (13.12.2022) by The Animals and Animal Health, Feed and Food, Plants and Plant Health (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1315), regs. 1(1), 14(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Annex 1 para. 2(k) substituted (13.12.2022) by The Animals and Animal Health, Feed and Food, Plants and Plant Health (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1315), regs. 1(1), 14(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/893 of 24 May 2017 amending Annexes I and IV to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annexes X, XIV and XV to Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards the provisions on processed animal protein (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/893 of 24 May 2017 amending Annexes I and IV to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annexes X, XIV and XV to Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards the provisions on processed animal protein (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1972 of 30 October 2017 amending Annexes I and III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards a surveillance programme for chronic wasting disease in cervids in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden and repealing Commission Decision 2007/182/EC (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1972 of 30 October 2017 amending Annexes I and III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards a surveillance programme for chronic wasting disease in cervids in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden and repealing Commission Decision 2007/182/EC (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "http://vla.defra.gov.uk/science/docs/sci_tse_rl_handbookv4jan10.pdf"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 349, 24.12.2002, p. 105 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "http://vla.defra.gov.uk/science/docs/sci_tse_rl_2blot.pdf"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 8 ."
    }
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