# Regulation (EC) No 273/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 on drug precursors (Text with EEA relevance), Article 2: Definitions

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

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:
(a)‘scheduled substance’ means any substance listed in Annex I that can be used for the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, including mixtures and natural products containing such substances but excluding mixtures and natural products which contain scheduled substances and which are compounded in such a way that the scheduled substances cannot be easily used or extracted by readily applicable or economically viable means, medicinal products as defined in regulation 2 (medicinal products) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 and veterinary medicinal products as defined in regulation 2 of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 ;
(b)‘non-scheduled substance’ means any substance which, although not listed in Annex I, is identified as having been used for the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances;
(c)‘placing on the market’ means any supply, whether in return for payment or free of charge, of scheduled substances in Great Britain; or the storage, manufacture, production, processing, trade, distribution or brokering of these substances for the purpose of supply in Great Britain;
(d)‘operator’ means any natural or legal person engaged in the placing on the market of scheduled substances;
(e)‘International Narcotics Control Board’ means the Board established by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol;
(f)‘special licence’ means a licence that is granted to a particular type of operator;
(g)‘special registration’ means a registration that is made for a particular type of operator;
(h)‘user’ means a natural or legal person other than an operator who possesses a scheduled substance and is engaged in the processing, formulation, consumption, storage, keeping, treatment, filling into containers, transfer from one container to another, mixing, transformation or any other utilisation of scheduled substances;
(i)‘natural product’ means—
(i)an organism or a part thereof, in any form; or
(ii)a naturally occurring substance which is unprocessed or processed only by manual, mechanical or gravitational means, by dissolution in water, by flotation, by extraction with water, by steam distillation or by heating solely to remove water, or which is extracted from air by any means.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/273/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-273/article-2
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