- additional animal population
means the population of kept or wild animals of listed species subjected to optional prevention, surveillance and disease control measures necessary to achieve or maintain the disease-free status of a targeted animal population;
- animal acts
means any act featuring animals kept for the purpose of an exhibition or fair, and which may form part of a circus;
- animal of the bovine species
means an animal of the species of ungulates belonging to the genera Bison, Bos (including the subgenera Bos, Bibos, Novibos, Poephagus) and Bubalus (including the subgenus Anoa) and the offspring of crossings of those species;
- animal of the caprine species
means an animal of the species of ungulates belonging to the genus Capra and the offspring of crossings of those species;
- animal of the ovine species
means an animal of the species of ungulates belonging to the genus Ovis and the offspring of crossings of those species;
- animal of the porcine species
means an animal of the species of ungulates of family Suidae listed in Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2016/429;
- approved germinal product establishment
means a semen collection centre, an embryo collection team, an embryo production team, a germinal product processing establishment or a germinal product storage centre, approved in accordance with Article 97(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429;
- breeding poultry
means poultry 72 hours old or more, intended for the production of hatching eggs;
- cat
means a kept animal of the Felis silvestris species;
- dog
means a kept animal of the Canis lupus species;
- eligibility period
means the period of time before the competent authority submits the application for disease-free status or, when relevant, before the provisional declaration referred to in point (a) of Article 83(1) is published electronically;
- embryo
means the initial stage of development of an animal while it is capable of being transferred to a recipient dam;
- fallowing
means, for disease management purposes, an operation where an establishment is emptied of aquaculture animals from listed species, and where feasible, of water;
- ferret
means a kept animal of the Mustela putorius furo species;
- flock
means all poultry or captive birds of the same health status kept on the same premises or in the same enclosure and constituting a single epidemiological unit;
- honeybees
means animals of the Apis mellifera species;
- means of transport
means road or rail vehicles, vessels and aircrafts;
- multiple basic amino acids
refers to at least three arginine or lysine residues between residues 113 and 116.
- oocytes
means the haploid stages of the ootidogenesis including secondary oocytes and ova;
- random annual surveillance
means a surveillance consisting of at least one survey of a targeted animal population organised during the year for which probability-based sampling methods are used to select units to examine.
- seasonally BTV-free area
means the whole territory of a Member State or a zone thereof where the competent authority has established a temporary status of freedom from infection with bluetongue virus (serotype 1-24) (‘infection with BTV’) in accordance with Article 40(3) on the basis of a vector-free period and the demonstration of absence of the disease in listed animal species;
- semen
means the ejaculate of an animal or animals, either in the unaltered state or prepared or diluted;
- targeted animal population
means the population of animals of listed species defined by species and, as appropriate, by categories, relevant for the surveillance activities, the eradication programmes or the disease-free status of a specific disease;
- travelling circus
means an exhibition or fair that includes animals or animal acts which is intended to move between Member States;
- vector protected establishment
means part or all facilities of an establishment that are protected against attacks from Culicoides by appropriate physical and management means, with a status of vector protected establishment being granted by the competent authority in accordance with Article 44;
- vector-free period
means in a defined area the period of inactivity of Culicoides determined in accordance with Section 5 of Chapter 1 of Part II of Annex V;
- well-boat
means a vessel used by the aquaculture industry which has a well or tank for the storage and transport of live fish in water;