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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2124/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2019/2124",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2124 of 10 October 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for official controls of consignments of animals and goods in transit, transhipment and onward transportation through the Union, and amending Commission Regulations (EC) No 798/2008, (EC) No 1251/2008, (EC) No 119/2009, (EU) No 206/2010, (EU) No 605/2010, (EU) No 142/2011, (EU) No 28/2012, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/759 and Commission Decision 2007/777/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2124",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:\n(1)‘common health entry document’ or ‘CHED’ means the common health entry document, which is used for the prior notification of the arrival of consignments at the border control post, and which is used to record the outcome of official controls performed and of decisions taken by the competent authorities in relation to the consignment which it accompanies;\n(2)‘transhipped consignments’ means consignments of animals or goods entering Great Britain by sea or by air transport from a third country, when those animals or goods are moved from a vessel or aircraft and are transported under customs supervision to another vessel or aircraft in the same port or airport in preparation for onward travel;\n(3)‘warehouse’ means:\n(a)a customs warehouse;\n(aa)a warehouse in a free zone as defined in paragraph 2(5) of Schedule 2 to the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018;\n(ab)a temporary storage facility; or\n(b)a warehouse specialised in supplying goods for NATO or US military bases;\n(3A)‘customs warehouse’ means premises approved by HMRC as referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Schedule 2 to the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018;\n(3B)‘temporary storage facility’ has the meaning given in section 25A of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979;\n(4)‘onward transportation’ means the movement of consignments of goods from a border control post to their place of final destination in Great Britain or the Crown Dependencies pending the availability of the results of laboratory analyses and tests;\n(5)‘onward transportation facility’ means the facility at the place of final destination in Great Britain or the Crown Dependencies or at a place situated under the remit of the same competent authority as the place of final destination, designated by the competent authority for the place of final destination for the storage of consignments of goods subject to onward transportation prior to the release for free circulation of such consignments;\n(6)‘appropriate computerised information management system’ means the computerised information management system for official controls referred to in Article 131 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625;\n(7)‘border control post of introduction into Great Britain’ means the border control post where animals and goods are presented for official controls and through which they enter Great Britain from a third country for subsequent placing on the market in Great Britain or the Crown Dependencies or for transit through the territories of Great Britain and, where applicable, the Crown Dependencies and which may be the border control post of first arrival into Great Britain;\n(8)‘GB regulated non-quarantine pest’ means a pest that fulfils all the conditions listed in Article 36 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/2031;\n(8A)‘GB quarantine pest’ has the meaning given by Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031;\n(8B)‘provisional GB quarantine pest’ has the meaning given in Article 30(A1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031;\n(8C)‘PFA quarantine pest’ has the meaning given by Article 32(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031;\n(8D)‘GB pest-free area’ has the meaning given in Article 2(31) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031;\n(9)‘approved warehouse’ means a warehouse approved by the competent authorities as provided for in Article 23 of this Regulation;\n(10)‘specified pathogen-free eggs’ means hatching eggs which are derived from chicken flocks free from specified pathogens, as described in the European Pharmacopoeia, and which are intended solely for diagnostic, research or pharmaceutical use;\n(11)‘the competent authority’ has the meaning given in Article 3(3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council;\n(12)‘Crown Dependencies’ means the Bailiwick of Jersey, the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Isle of Man;\n(13)‘third country’ has the meaning given in Article 3(2D) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(a) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 2(3)(a)-(ab) substituted for Art. 2(3)(a) (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(b) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 2(3A)(3B) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(c) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(d) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(e)(i) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(e)(ii) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(6) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(f) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(7) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(g)(i) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(7) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(g)(ii) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(7) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(g)(iii) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(7) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(g)(iv) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Word in Art. 2(8) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(h) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Art. 2(8A)-(8D) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(i) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Art. 2(11)-(13) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(5)(j) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "http://www.edqm.eu (latest edition)."
    }
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