- authorised operator
means a registered operator authorised by the competent authority to issue plant passports in accordance with Article 89, to apply a mark in accordance with Article 98, or to issue attestations in accordance with Article 99;
- competent authority
means competent authorities as defined in Article 3(3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- confinement facility
means any facility, other than quarantine stations, where pests, plants, plant products or other objects are kept under confinement conditions;
- containment
means the application of phytosanitary measures in and around an infested area to prevent the spread of a pest;
- eradication
means the application of phytosanitary measures to eliminate a pest from an area;
- establishment
means the perpetuation, for the foreseeable future, of a pest within an area after entry;
- final user
means any person acting for purposes which are outside that person's trade, business or profession who acquires plants or plant products for personal use;
- incidence
means the proportion or number of units in which a pest is present in a sample, consignment, field or other defined population;
- lot
means a number of units of a single commodity, identifiable by its homogeneity of composition, origin and other relevant elements, forming part of a consignment;
- other object
means any material or object, other than plants or plant products, capable of harbouring or spreading pests, including soil or growing medium;
- phytosanitary measure
means any official measure having the purpose to prevent the introduction or spread of quarantine pests or to limit the economic impact of regulated non-quarantine pests.
- plant products
means unmanufactured material of plant origin and those manufactured products that, by their nature or that of their processing, may create a risk of the spread of quarantine pests.
- planting
means any operation for the placing of plants in a growing medium, or by grafting or similar operations, to ensure their subsequent growth, reproduction or propagation;
- plants
means living plants and the following living parts of plants:
- plants for planting
means plants intended to remain planted, to be planted or to be replanted;
- professional operator
means any person, governed by public or private law, involved professionally in, and legally responsible for, one or more of the following activities concerning plants, plant products and other objects:
- quarantine station
means any official station for holding pests, plants, plant products or other objects in quarantine;
- registered operator
means a professional operator registered in accordance with Article 65;
- test
means an official examination, other than visual, to determine if pests are present or to identify pests;
- traceability code
means a letter, numerical or alphanumerical code that identifies a consignment, lot or trade unit, used for traceability purposes, including codes referring to a lot, batch, series, date of production or professional operator documents;
- trade unit
means the smallest commercial or other useable unit applicable to the marketing stage concerned, which may be the subset or the whole of a lot;
- treatment
means a procedure, whether official or non-official, for the killing, inactivation or removal of pests, or for rendering those pests infertile, or for the devitalisation of plants or plant products;