# 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, Division 2

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall also apply:
(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;
(b) ‘ cohort ’ means a group of bovine animals which includes both:
(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
(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;
(c) ‘ index case ’ means the first animal on a holding, or in an epidemiologically defined group, in which a TSE infection is confirmed;
(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;
(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 ;
(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;
(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;
(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 ;
(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;
(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 ;
(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;
(l) ‘ ovine and caprine animals over 18 months of age ’ means ovine and caprine animals:
(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
(ii) which have more than two permanent incisors erupted through the gum ;
(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)‘home compounders’ means livestock farmers who mix compound feed for the exclusive use on their own holding ;
(o)‘farmed and captive cervids’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are kept by humans in an enclosed territory;
(p)‘wild cervids’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are not kept by humans;
(q)‘semi-domesticated cervids’ means animals of the family Cervidae which are kept by humans although not in an enclosed territory.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2001/999/annex/I/division/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-999/annex-I/division-2
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