Judgment_paragraph 5 · Zuchtvieh-Export GmbH v Stadt Kempten (C-424/13)

5Article 2 of that regulation includes the following definitions:‘...(d) “border inspection post” means any inspection post designated and approved in accordance with Article 6 of [Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991 laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from third countries and amending Directives 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC (JO L 268, p. 56)], for carrying out veterinary checks on animals arriving from third countries at the border of the territory of the Community;...(f) “competent authority” means the central authority of a Member State competent to carry out checks on animal welfare or any authority to which it has delegated that competence;...(h) “control posts” means control posts as referred to in [Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/97 of 25 June 1997 concerning Community criteria for staging points and amending the route plan referred to in the Annex to Directive 91/628/EEC (OJ 1997 L 174, p. 1)];(i) “exit point” means a border inspection post or any other place designated by a Member State where animals leave the customs territory of the Community;(j) “journey” means the entire transport operation from the place of departure to the place of destination, including any unloading, accommodation and loading occurring at intermediate points in the journey;...(m) “long journey” means a journey that exceeds [eight] hours, starting from when the first animal of the consignment is moved;...(s) “place of destination” means the place at which an animal is unloaded from a means of transport and:(i) accommodated for at least 48 hours prior to the time of departure; or(ii) slaughtered;(t) “place of rest or transfer” means any stop during the journey which is not a place of destination, including a place where animals have changed the means of transport, with or without being unloaded;...(w) “transport” means the movement of animals effected by one or more means of transport and the related operations, including loading, unloading, transfer and rest, until the unloading of the animals at the place of destination is completed;...’