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Defined terms — Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation)

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75 defined in this instrument, 1 borrowed from other acts.

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ACP/Indian sugar — sugar falling within CN code 1701 originating in the States listed in Annex XIX and imported into the Community under: — Protocol 3 to Annex V to the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement, or — the Agreement on cane sugar between the European Community and the Republic of India (1); | 13. | ANNEX III
adult bovine animals — bovine animals the live weight of which is more than 300 kilograms. | 1. | For the purpose of the implementation of the tariff quota for butter of New Zealand origin, the phrase ‘manufactured directly from milk or cream’ does not exclude butter manufactured from milk or cream, without the use of stored materials, in a single, self-contained and uninterrupted process which may involve the cream passing through a stage of concentrated milkfat and/or the fractionation of such milkfat. | 2. | For the purposes of the application of Article 119 concerning the use of casein and caseinates in the manufacture of cheese: (a) ANNEX III
agreement within the trade — one of the following: (a) an agreement concluded at Community level, prior to the conclusion of any delivery contract, between a group of national undertakings' organisations on the one hand and a group of national sellers' organisations on the other; (b) an agreement concluded, prior to the conclusion of any delivery contract, between undertakings or an undertakings' organisation recognised by the Member State concerned on the one hand and a sellers' association recognised by the Member State concerned on the other; (c) in the absence of any agreement as referred to in point (a) or (b), the law on companies and the law on cooperatives, in so far as they govern the delivery of sugar beet by the shareholders or members of a company or cooperative manufacturing sugar; (d) in the absence of any agreement as referred to in point (a) or (b), the arrangements existing before the conclusion of any delivery contract, provided the sellers accepting the arrangement supply at least 60 % of the total beet bought by the undertaking for the manufacture of sugar in one or more factories. | 12. | ANNEX III
Amber grains — grains which have undergone, otherwise than by drying, a slight uniform change in colour over the whole surface; this change alters the colour of the grains to a light amber-yellow. | 1. | ANNEX III
Apiculture products — honey, beeswax, royal jelly, propolis or pollen ANNEX III
authorised primary processor — a natural or legal person or a group of natural or legal persons, irrespective of its legal status under national law, or that of its members, that has been authorised by the competent authority of the Member State in the territory of which its facilities for producing flax fibre are located art_91__para_2
available quota — the quota available to producers on 31 March of the twelve-month period for which the surplus levy is calculated, taking account of all transfers, sales, conversions and temporary re-allocations provided for in this Regulation which have taken place during that twelve-month period (k)
bovine animals — live animals of the domestic bovine species falling within CN codes ex 0102 10 , 0102 90 05 to 0102 90 79 ; | 2. | ANNEX III
Broken grains or fragments — grains from which a part of the volume greater than the end has been removed; broken grains include: — large broken grains (pieces of grain of a length not less than half that of a grain, but not constituting a complete grain), — medium broken grains (pieces of grain of a length not less than a quarter of the length of a grain but which are smaller than the minimum size of ‘large broken grains’), — fine broken grains (pieces of grain less than a quarter of the size of a grain but too large to pass through a sieve with a mesh of 1,4 mm), — fragments (small pieces or particles of grain which can pass through a sieve with a mesh of 1,4 mm); split grains (pieces produced by a longitudinal split in the grain) come under this definition. D ANNEX III
Broken rice — grain fragments the length of which does not exceed three quarters of the average length of the whole grain. | II. | As regards grains and broken grains which are not of unimpaired quality, the following definitions shall apply: A ANNEX III
casein and caseinates — products covered by CN codes 3501 10 90 and 3501 90 90 and used as such or in the form of a mixture. | 1. | ANNEX III
cereals — cereals harvested in the Community (a)
Chalky grains — grains at least three-quarters of the surface of which looks opaque and chalky. G ANNEX III
cheese — products covered by CN code 0406 and manufactured within the Community territory ANNEX III
chicks — live fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls, each weighing not more than 185 grams; | 3. | ANNEX III
Clipped grains — grains from which the entire end has been removed. C ANNEX III
cream — cream obtained directly and exclusively from milk (d)
delivery — any delivery of milk, not including any other milk products, by a producer to a purchaser, whether the transport is carried out by the producer, a purchaser, an undertaking processing or treating such products or a third party (f)
delivery contract — a contract concluded between a seller and an undertaking for the delivery of beet for the manufacture of sugar; | 11. | ANNEX III
derived products — the following: (a) products specified in point (a) of Part XX of Annex I; (b) products specified in point (b) of Part XX of Annex I, excluding slaughtered poultry and edible offal, known as ‘poultry cuts’; (c) edible offals specified in point (b) of Part XX of Annex I; (d) products specified in point (c) of Part XX of Annex I; (e) products specified in points (d) and (e) of Part XX of Annex I; (f) products referred to in point (f) of Part XX of Annex I, other than those products falling within CN codes 1602 20 11 and 1602 20 19 . | 1. | ANNEX III
direct sale — any sale or transfer of milk by a producer directly to consumers, as well as any sale or transfer of other milk products by a producer. The Commission may, while respecting the definition of ‘delivery’ given in point (f), adjust the definition of ‘direct sale’ in order to ensure, in particular, that no quantity of marketed milk or other milk products is excluded from the quota arrangements (g)
drinking milk — the products referred to in point III intended for delivery without further processing to the consumer (b)
eggs for hatching — poultry eggs for hatching; | 3. | ANNEX III
eggs in shell — poultry eggs in shell, fresh, preserved, or cooked, other than eggs for hatching specified in 2.; | 2. | ANNEX III
ethyl alcohol of non-agricultural origin — products falling within CN codes 2207 , 2208 90 91 and 2208 90 99 not obtained from a specific agricultural product listed in Annex I to the Treaty art_189__para_2__para__2
extract of hops — the concentrated products obtained by the action of a solvent on the hops or on the hop powder; | 5. | ANNEX III
farmer — a farmer as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 (a)
fat content — the ratio by mass of parts of milk fat per hundred parts of milk in the milk concerned (c)
full-time refiner — a production unit: — of which the sole activity consists of refining imported raw cane sugar, or — which refined in the marketing year 2004/2005 a quantity of at least 15 000 tonnes of imported raw cane sugar. | 1. | ANNEX III
Grains showing natural malformation — grains showing a natural malformation whether or not of hereditary origin, as compared with the morphological characteristics typical of the variety. F ANNEX III
Grains striated with red — grains showing longitudinal red striations of differing intensity and shades, due to residues from the pericarp. H ANNEX III
Green grains — grains which are not fully ripened. E ANNEX III
holding — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own (d)
Honey — the natural sweet substance produced by Apis mellifera bees from the nectar of plants or from secretions of living parts of plants or excretions of plant-sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which the bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store and leave in honeycombs to ripen and mature. The main types of honey are as follows: (a) according to origin: (i) blossom honey or nectar honey: honey obtained from the nectar of plants; (ii) honeydew honey: honey obtained mainly from excretions of plant sucking insects (Hemiptera) on the living part of plants or secretions of living parts of plants; (b) according to mode of production and/or presentation: (iii) comb honey: honey stored by bees in the cells of freshly built broodless combs or thin comb foundation sheets made solely of beeswax and sold in sealed whole combs or sections of such combs; (iv) chunk honey or cut comb in honey: honey which contains one or more pieces of comb honey; (v) drained honey: honey obtained by draining decapped broodless combs; (vi) extracted honey: honey obtained by centrifuging decapped broodless combs; (vii) pressed honey: honey… ANNEX III
hop powder — the product obtained by milling the hops, containing all the natural elements thereof; | 3. | ANNEX III
hop powder with higher lupulin content — the product obtained by milling the hops after mechanical removal of a part of the leaves, stalks, bracts and rachides; | 4. | ANNEX III
hops — the dried inflorescences, also known as cones, of the (female) climbing hop plant (Humulus lupulus); these inflorescences, which are greenish yellow and of an ovoid shape, have a flower stalk and their longest dimension generally varies from 2 to 5 cm; | 2. | ANNEX III
Husked rice — paddy rice from which only the husk has been removed. Examples of rice falling within this definition are those with the commercial descriptions ‘brown rice’, ‘cargo rice’, ‘loonzain’ and ‘riso sbramato’. (c) ANNEX III
individual quota — a producer's quota at 1 April of any twelve-month period (i)
industrial inulin syrup — any quantity of isoglucose or inulin syrup production attributed to a specific marketing year, intended for the production by the industry of one of the products referred to in Article 62(2); | 8. | ‘surplus sugar’, ‘surplus isoglucose’ and ANNEX III
industrial sugar — any quantity of sugar production attributed to a specific marketing year over and above the sugar quantity referred to in point (5), intended for the production by the industry of one of the products referred to in Article 62(2); | 7. | ‘industrial isoglucose’ and ANNEX III
intervention price — the price at which products shall be bought into public intervention (c)
inulin syrup — the immediate product obtained by hydrolysis of inulin or oligofructoses, containing in the dry state at least 10 % fructose in free form or as sucrose, and expressed as sugar/isoglucose equivalents. In order to avoid restrictions on the market for products with low sweetening power produced by inulin fibre processors without inulin syrup quota, this definition may be amended by the Commission; | 5. | ‘quota sugar’, ‘quota isoglucose’ and ANNEX III
isoglucose — the product obtained from glucose or its polymers with a content by weight in the dry state of at least 10 % fructose; | 4. | ANNEX III
live poultry — live fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls each weighing more than 185 grams; | 2. | ANNEX III
Long grain rice — (i) long grain rice A, rice, the grains of which are of a length exceeding 6,0 mm and of which the length/width ratio is greater than 2 but less than 3; (ii) long grain rice B, rice, the grains of which are of a length exceeding 6,0 mm and of which the length/width ratio is equal to or greater than 3. (d) ANNEX III
marketing — deliveries of milk or direct sales of milk or other milk products (h)
Measurements of the grains — grain measurements are taken on wholly milled rice by the following method: (i) take a sample representative of the batch; (ii) sieve the sample so as to retain only whole grains, including immature grains; (iii) carry out two measurements of 100 grains each and work out the average; (iv) express the result in millimetres, rounded off to one decimal place. 3 ANNEX III
Medium grain rice — rice, the grains of which are of a length exceeding 5,2 mm but not exceeding 6,0 mm and of a length/width ratio no greater than 3. (c) ANNEX III
milk — the produce of the milking of one or more cows (a)
milk — the produce of the milking of one or more cows (a)
milk — cow's milk produced in the Community (b)
mixed hop products — a mixture of two or more of the products referred to in points (1) to (4). | 1. | ANNEX III
national quota — the quota referred to in Article 66, fixed for each Member State (j)
other milk products — any milk product other than milk, in particular skimmed milk, cream, butter, yoghurt and cheese; when relevant, these shall be converted into ‘milk equivalents’ by applying coefficients to be fixed by the Commission (b)
Paddy rice — rice which has retained its husk after threshing. (b) ANNEX III
paying agency — the body or the bodies assigned by a Member State in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 (b)
producer — a farmer with a holding located within the geographical territory of a Member State, who produces and markets milk or who is preparing to do so in the very near future (c)
protein content — the ratio by mass of parts of protein per hundred parts of milk in the milk concerned (obtained by multiplying by 6,38 the total nitrogen content of the milk expressed as a percentage by mass) (d)
purchaser — undertakings or groups which buy milk from producers: However, any group of purchasers in the same geographical area which carries out the administrative and accounting operations necessary for the payment of the surplus levy on behalf of its members shall be regarded as a purchaser. For the purposes of the first sentence of this subparagraph, Greece shall be considered a single geographical area and it may deem an official body to be a group of purchasers; to subject it to collecting, packing, storing, chilling or processing, including under contract, to sell it to one or more undertakings treating or processing milk or other milk products (e)
quota beet — all sugar beet processed into quota sugar; | 10. | ANNEX III
quota inulin syrup — any quantity of sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup production attributed to a specific marketing year under the quota of the undertaking concerned; | 6. | ANNEX III
raw sugars — sugars, not flavoured or coloured or containing any other added substances, containing, in the dry state, less than 99,5 % by weight of sucrose, determined by the polarimetric method; | 3. | ANNEX III
Round grain rice — rice, the grains of which are of a length not exceeding 5,2 mm and of a length/width ratio of less than 2. (b) ANNEX III
Semi-milled rice — paddy rice from which the husk, part of the germ and the whole or part of the outer layers of the pericarp but not the inner layers have been removed. (d) ANNEX III
separated products — birds' egg yolks, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter suitable for human consumption. | 1. | ANNEX III
skimmed milk — skimmed milk obtained directly and exclusively from cow's milk produced in the Community (c)
slaughtered poultry — dead fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls, whole, with or without offal; | 4. | ANNEX III
Spotted grains — grains showing a well-defined small circle of dark colour of more or less regular shape; spotted grains also include those which show slight black striations on the surface only; the striations and spots must not show a yellow or dark aureole. I ANNEX III
Stained grains — grains which have undergone, on a small area of their surface, an obvious change in their natural colour; the stains may be of different colours (blackish, reddish, brown); deep black striations are also to be regarded as stains. If the colour of the stains is sufficiently marked (black, pink, reddish-brown) to be immediately visible and if they cover an area not less than half that of the grain, the grains must be considered to be yellow grains. J ANNEX III
surplus inulin syrup — any quantity of sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup production attributed to a specific marketing year over and above the respective quantities referred to in points (5), (6) and (7); | 9. | ANNEX III
white sugars — sugars, not flavoured or coloured or containing any other added substances, containing, in the dry state, 99,5 % or more by weight of sucrose, determined by the polarimetric method; | 2. | ANNEX III
Whole grains — grains from which only part of the end has been removed, irrespective of characteristics produced at each stage of milling. B ANNEX III
whole products — birds' eggs not in shell, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter suitable for human consumption; | 4. | ANNEX III
Wholly milled rice — paddy rice from which the husk, the whole of the outer and inner layers of the pericarp, the whole of the germ in the case of long grain or medium grain rice and at least part thereof in the case of round grain rice have been removed, but in which longitudinal white striations may remain on not more than 10 % of the grains. 2. (a) ANNEX III
Yellow grains — grains which have undergone, totally or partially, otherwise than by drying, a change in their natural colour and have taken on a lemon or orange-yellow tone. K ANNEX III