- closed recirculation aquaculture facility
means a facility where aquaculture takes place within an enclosed environment on land or on a vessel involving the recirculation of water, and depending on permanent external energy input to stabilize the environment for the aquaculture animals;
- control file
means all the information and documents transmitted, for the purposes of the control system, to the competent authorities of the Member State or to control authorities and control bodies by an operator subject to the control system as referred to in Article 28 of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007, including all the relevant information and documents relating to that operator or the activities of that operator held by competent authorities, control authorities and control bodies, with the exception of information or documents that have no bearing on the operation of the control system;
- energy from renewable sources
means renewable non-fossil energy sources: wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal, hydropower, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas and biogases;
- first consignee
means the natural or legal person to whom the imported consignment is delivered and who will receive it for further preparation and/or marketing;
- hatchery
means a place of breeding, hatching and rearing through the early life stages of aquaculture animals, finfish and shellfish in particular;
- holding
means all the production units operated under a single management for the purpose of producing agricultural products;
- hydroponic production
means the method of growing plants with their roots in a mineral nutrient solution only or in an inert medium, such as perlite, gravel or mineral wool to which a nutrient solution is added;
- in-conversion feedingstuffs
means feedingstuffs produced during the conversion period to organic production, with the exclusion of those harvested in the 12 months following the beginning of the conversion as referred to in Article 17(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007;
- nursery
means a place where an intermediate farming system, between the hatchery and grow-out stages is applied.
- preserving
means any action, different from farming and harvesting, that is carried out on products, but which does not qualify as processing as defined in point (u), including all actions referred to in point (n) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and excluding packaging or labelling of the product;
- processing
means any action referred to in point (m) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004, including the use of substances referred to in Article 19(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007.
- production unit
means all assets to be used for a production sector such as production premises, land parcels, pasturages, open air areas, livestock buildings, fish ponds, containment systems for seaweed or aquaculture animals, shore or seabed concessions, the premises for the storage of crops, crop products, seaweed products, animal products, raw materials and any other input relevant for this specific production sector;
- seaweed
includes multi-cellular marine algae, phytoplankton and micro-algae.
- veterinary treatment
means all courses of a curative or preventive treatment against one occurrence of a specific disease;