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Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions of ‘agricultural holding’, ‘common land agricultural unit’, ‘livestock unit’ and ‘utilised agricultural area’, as laid down in Article 2, points (a), (b), (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU) 2018/1091, respectively, apply. In addition, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) ‘agricultural activity’ means the economic activities undertaken in agriculture in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council falling within the scope of groups A.01.1, A.01.2, A.01.3, A.01.4, A.01.5 or within the scope of the ‘maintenance of agricultural land in good agricultural and environmental condition’ of group A.01.6 in the economic territory of the Union, either as its primary or secondary activity; regarding activities of class A.01.49, only the activities ‘Raising and breeding of semi-domesticated or other live animals’ with the exception of raising of insects, and ‘Bee-keeping and production of honey and beeswax’ are included;

(2) ‘dairy enterprise’ means an enterprise or agricultural holding that purchases milk or, in certain cases, milk products, in order to transform them into milk products; it includes also enterprises that collect milk or cream in order to transfer it in whole or in part, without any processing, to other dairy enterprises;

(3) ‘slaughterhouse’ means an officially registered and approved enterprise with permission to slaughter and dress animals, the meat of which is intended for human consumption;

(4) ‘hatchery’ means an enterprise for incubating eggs, hatching and supplying chicks;

(5) ‘observation unit’ means an identifiable entity about which data can be obtained;

(6) ‘domain’ means one or several data sets that cover particular topics;

(7) ‘topic’ means the content of the information to be collected about the observation units; each topic covers one or more detailed topics;

(8) ‘detailed topic’ means the detailed content of the information to be collected about the observation units related to a topic; each detailed topic covers one or more variables;

(9) ‘plant protection products’ means products, in the form in which they are supplied to the user, consisting of, or containing, active substances, as referred to in Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, safeners, as referred to in Article 2(3), point (a), of that Regulation or synergists, as referred to in Article 2(3), point (b), of that Regulation, and intended for one of the uses described in Article 2(1) of that Regulation;

(10) ‘data set’ means one or several aggregated variables organised in a structured form;

(11) ‘variable’ means a characteristic of an observation unit that may assume more than one of a set of values;

(12) ‘pre-checked data’ means data verified by the Member States, based on agreed common validation rules, wherever available;

(13) ‘ad hoc data’ means data that are of a particular interest for users at a specific point in time but that are not included in the regular data sets;

(14) ‘administrative data’ means data generated by a non-statistical source, usually held by a public or private body, the main aim of which is not to provide statistics;

(15) ‘metadata’ means information that is needed to use and interpret statistics and which describes data in a structured way;

(16) ‘professional user’ means any person who uses plant protection products in the course of their professional activities, including operators, technicians, employers and self-employed persons, in the farming sector.