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Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(1) ‘consignment’ means a quantity of goods covered by the same official certificate, official attestation or any other document, conveyed by the same means of transport, and, in respect of retail goods, dispatched by the same listed establishment in parts of the United Kingdom other than Northern Ireland, and delivered to the same listed establishment in Northern Ireland, and, with respect to plants for planting, including seed potatoes, and machinery and vehicles operated for agricultural or forestry purposes, dispatched by professional operators in parts of the United Kingdom other than Northern Ireland and received by a professional operator in Northern Ireland;

(2) ‘retail goods’ means the following goods that are delivered at distribution terminals, including terminals distributing retail goods under controlled temperatures, supermarket distribution centres, wholesale outlets and points of sale, or that are delivered directly to the final consumer, including by catering operators, at factory canteens, by institutional catering, by restaurants and by other similar food service operators and shops:

(a) products of animal or plant origin;

(b) plants other than plants intended for planting, as listed in an implementing act adopted in accordance with Article 72(1), Article 73 and Article 74(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031;

(c) composite products;

(d) food other than that referred to in points (a), (b) and (c);

(e) food contact materials;

(f) ready-to-sell pet food and dog chews falling within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009;

(3) ‘placing on the market’ means the holding by an operator of goods referred to in Article 1(1), points (a) and (b), of this Regulation for the purpose of sale, including offering for sale or any other form of transfer, whether free of charge or not, and the sale, distribution, and other forms of transfer of those goods;

(4) ‘final consumer’ means the ultimate consumer of a retail good who will not use it as part of any business operation or activity;

(5) ‘rest-of-the-world retail goods’ means retail goods that consist of commodities originating in third countries other than the United Kingdom and imported into parts of the United Kingdom other than Northern Ireland;

(6) ‘products of animal origin’ means retail goods intended for human consumption consisting of the following:

(a) food of animal origin, including honey and blood;

(b) live bivalve molluscs, live echinoderms, live tunicates and live marine gastropods intended for human consumption;

(c) other animals destined to be prepared with a view to being supplied live to the final consumer;

(7) ‘products of plant origin’ means retail goods intended for human consumption consisting of plants and products thereof, including processed material;

(8) ‘ready-to-sell pet food and dog chews’ means pet food and dog chews for direct sale which are packed in ready-to-sell packages for use by the final consumer;

(9) ‘composite products’ means retail goods intended for human consumption containing both products of plant origin and processed products of animal origin;

(10) ‘food’ means food or foodstuff as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

(11) ‘special rate of official controls’ means the rate of official controls laid down in an implementing act adopted in accordance with Article 4(3) of this Regulation;

(12) ‘general certificate’ means a paper or electronic document signed by the certifying officer of the competent authorities for a consignment of retail goods and providing assurance concerning compliance with the requirements laid down in this Regulation;

(13) ‘prepacked’ means prepared for presentation of any single item as such to the final consumer and to catering operators, consisting of the packaging into which the retail goods are put before being offered for sale, whether such packaging encloses the retail goods completely or only partially, but in any event in such a way that the contents cannot be altered without opening or changing the packaging;

(14) ‘marking’ means any tag, brand, mark, pictorial or other descriptive matter, written, printed, stencilled, marked, embossed or impressed on, or attached to, the packaging of a retail good or the box in which it is contained, and which cannot be easily removed or faded;

(15) ‘fishery products’ means fishery products as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008;

(16) ‘establishment’ means any unit of a business dispatching or receiving retail goods;

(17) ‘listed establishment’ means an establishment listed in accordance with Article 8 of this Regulation;

(18) ‘SPS Inspection Facility’ means a control post as defined in Article 3, point (38), of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and a traveller’s point of entry as defined in Article 3, point (k), of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013, both complying with the requirements laid down in those Regulations;

(19) ‘SPS status’ means the health status as defined in Article 4, point (34), of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 or the pest status as defined in the International Standard for Phytosanitary Measures No. 5 – Glossary of phytosanitary terms, 2022, adopted under the International Plant Protection Convention, as amended;

(20) ‘dairy products’ means dairy products as defined in point 7.2 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

(21) ‘meat’ means meat as defined in point 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(22) ‘plant health label’ means any tag, brand, mark, pictorial or other descriptive matter, written, printed, stencilled, marked, embossed or impressed, which cannot be easily removed or faded, issued officially or under official supervision in accordance with Article 10 or 11 of this Regulation, to accompany consignments of plants for planting, including seed potatoes, and machinery and vehicles operated for agricultural or forestry purposes;

(23) ‘seed potatoes’ means tubers of Solanum tuberosum L. for planting;

(24) ‘pet animals’ means pet animals of the species listed in Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 576/2013, namely pet dogs, cats and ferrets;

(25) ‘pet travel document’ means a paper or electronic document issued by the competent authorities of the United Kingdom for the non-commercial movement of pet animals entering into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom.