S.L. 437.95 Art. 62Committee procedure.

(1) The Commission shall be assisted by the Standing

Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (hereinafter referred to as "the Committee").

(2) Where reference is made to this sub-rule, the procedure set out in the definition "Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health" in rule 3(1) shall apply. SCHEDULE I

Definitions

In addition to the definitions in rule 3, the following technical definitions apply: "common biosecurity system" means that the same aquatic surveillance, disease prevention, and disease control measures are applied; "compartment" means one or more farms under a common biosecurity containing an aquatic animal population with a distinct health status with specific disease; "containment area" means an area around an infected farm or mollusc area where disease control measures are applied with the purpose of spread of the disease; "disease" means a clinical or non-clinical infection with one or more agents in aquatic animals; "disease-free zones or compartments" means zones or compartments disease-free in accordance with rules 49 or 50; "emerging disease" means a newly identified serious disease, the may or may not yet be established, that has the potential to be spread between populations, such as by way of trade in aquatic animals and, animal products. It also means a listed disease identified in a new host yet included in Part II of Schedule IV as a susceptible species; "epidemiological unit" means a group of aquatic animals that share the same risk of exposure to a disease agent within a defined location. be because they share a common aquatic environment, or because practices make it likely that a disease agent in one group of animals spread to another group of animals; "fallowing" means, for disease management purposes, an operation is emptied of aquaculture animals susceptible to the disease of concern be capable of transferring the disease agent, and, where feasible, of water; "further processing" means processing of aquaculture animals consumption by any type of measures and techniques affecting wholeness, such as bleeding, gutting/evisceration, heading, slicing which produces waste or by-products and could cause a risk of spreading "increased mortality" means unexplained mortalities significantly of what is considered to be normal for the farm or mollusc farming area under the prevailing conditions. What is considered to be increased be decided in cooperation between the farmer and the department;

"infected zone or compartment" means zones or compartments where is known to occur;

"infection" means the presence of a multiplying, or otherwise developing, disease agent in, or on, a host;

"quarantine" means maintaining a group of aquatic animals in isolation direct or indirect contact with other aquatic animals, in order to undergo for a specified length of time and, where appropriate, testing and proper treatment of the effluent waters; species" means any species in which infection by a disease agent has demonstrated by natural cases or by experimental infection that mimics the pathways; means a species that is not susceptible to a disease but which is capable infection by conveying pathogens from one host to another; means a precise geographical area with a homogeneous hydrological comprising part of a water catchment area from the source or sources to a artificial barrier that prevents the upward migration of aquatic animals stretches of the water catchment area, an entire water catchment area or sources to its estuary, or more than one water catchment area, estuaries, due to the epidemiological link between the catchment the estuary.

SCHEDULE II

Information Required in the Official Register of Aquaculture Production Businesses and Authorised Processing Establishments