a person normally residing in the Communitymeans a person who lives in the Community for at least 185 days in each calendar year because of occupational ties, or, in the case of a person with no occupational ties, because of personal ties which show close links between that person and the place where he is living;
breeding stockmeans all the animals in a breeding operation that were or are used for reproduction;
controlled environmentmeans an environment that is manipulated for the purpose of producing animals of a particular species, that has boundaries designed to prevent animals, eggs or gametes of the species from entering or leaving, and the general characteristics of which may include but are not limited to artificial housing, waste removal, health care, protection from predators and the artificial supply of food;
cultivated parental stockmeans the ensemble of plants grown under controlled conditions that are used for reproduction, and which must have been, to the satisfaction of the competent management authority, in consultation with a competent scientific authority of the Member State concerned:
date of acquisitionmeans the date on which a specimen was taken from the wild, born in captivity or artificially propagated, or, if such date is unknown, the earliest provable date on which it was possessed by any person;
hunting trophymeans a whole animal, or a readily recognisable part or derivative of an animal, specified on any accompanying CITES permit or certificate that fulfils the following conditions:
pre-Convention specimenmeans a specimen acquired before the species concerned was first included in the Appendices to the Convention.
sample collectionmeans a collection of legally acquired dead specimens, parts and derivatives thereof, that are transported across borders for presentation purposes;
specimen-specific certificatesmeans certificates issued in accordance with Article 48, other than transaction-specific certificates;
subsequent generation offspring (F3, F4, and so on)means specimens produced in a controlled environment from parents that were also produced in a controlled environment, as distinct from specimens produced in a controlled environment from parents at least one of which was conceived in or taken from the wild (first-generation offspring (F1));
transaction-specific certificatesmeans certificates issued in accordance with Article 48 that are valid only for one or more specified transactions;
travelling exhibitionmeans a sample collection, circus, menagerie, plant exhibition, orchestra or museums exhibition that is used for commercial display for the public;
under controlled conditionsrefers to a tree plantation, including other non-natural environment that is manipulated by human intervention for the purpose of producing plants or plant's parts and derivatives.