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1. For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(a) the definitions of ‘feed’, ‘feed business’ and ‘placing on the market’ as laid down, respectively, in points 4, 5 and 8 of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

(b) the definitions of ‘feed additives’ and ‘daily ration’ as laid down, respectively, in points (a) and (f) of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003;

(c) the definitions of ‘food-producing animal’, ‘non-food-producing animals’, ‘fur animals’, ‘feed materials’, ‘compound feed’, ‘complete feed’, ‘complementary feed’, ‘mineral feed’, ‘minimum storage life’, ‘batch’, ‘labelling’ and ‘label’ as laid down, respectively, in points (c), (d), (e), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (q), (r), (s) and (t) of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2009;

(d) the definition of ‘establishment’ as laid down in point (d) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 183/2005;

(e) the definitions of ‘official controls’ and ‘competent authorities’ as laid down, respectively, in Article 2(1) and in point 3 of Article 3, of Regulation (EU) 2017/625;

(f) the definitions of ‘veterinary medicinal product’, ‘active substance’, ‘immunological veterinary medicinal product’, ‘antimicrobial’, ‘antiparasitic’, ‘antibiotic’, ‘metaphylaxis’, ‘prophylaxis’, and ‘withdrawal period’, as laid down, respectively, in points 1, 3, 5, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 34 of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6, and ‘summary of the product characteristics’ referred to in Article 35 of that Regulation.

2. The following definitions also apply:

(a) ‘medicated feed’ means a feed, which is ready to be directly fed to animals without further processing, consisting of a homogenous mixture of one or more veterinary medicinal products or intermediate products with feed materials or compound feed;

(b) ‘intermediate product’ means a feed, which is not ready to be directly fed to animals without further processing, consisting of a homogenous mixture of one or more veterinary medicinal products with feed materials or compound feed, exclusively intended to be used for the manufacture of medicated feed;

(c) ‘non-target feed’ means feed, whether medicated or not, which is not intended to contain a specific active substance;

(d) ‘cross-contamination’ means contamination of a non-target feed with an active substance originating from the previous use of the facilities or equipment;

(e) ‘feed business operator’ means any natural or legal person responsible for ensuring that the requirements of this Regulation are met within the feed business under that person’s control;

(f) ‘mobile mixer’ means a feed business operator with a feed establishment consisting of a specifically equipped vehicle for the manufacture of medicated feed;

(g) ‘on-farm mixer’ means a feed business operator manufacturing medicated feed for the exclusive use on its farm;

(h) ‘veterinary prescription for medicated feed’ means a document issued by a veterinarian for a medicated feed;

(i) ‘advertising’ means the making of a representation in any form in connection with medicated feed and intermediate products in order to promote prescription or use of medicated feed comprising also the supply of samples and sponsorships;

(j) ‘animal keeper’ means any natural or legal person responsible for animals, whether on a permanent or on a temporary basis.