Article 2

1. For the purposes of this Directive the following definitions shall apply: 'official inspection in the field of animal nutrition`, hereinafter called 'inspection`, means an inspection by the competent authorities to check compliance with the Community provisions laid down in: Council Directive 70/524/EEC of 23 November 1970 concerning additives in feedingstuffs (2), Council Directive 74/63/EEC of 17 December 1973 on the fixing of maximum permitted levels for undesirable substances and products in feedingstuffs (3), Council Directive 77/101/EEC of 23 November 1976 on the marketing of straight feedingstuffs (4), Council Directive 79/373/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the marketing of compound feedingstuffs (5), Council Directive 82/471/EEC of 30 June 1982 concerning certain products used in animal nutrition (6), Council Directive 93/74/EEC of 13 September 1993 on feedingstuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes (7), and - any other rules in the field of animal nutrition in which provision is made for official inspections to be carried out in accordance with the provisions of this Directive; 'documentary check` means verification of the documents accompanying a product or of any other information provided on the product; 'identity check` means verification, by visual inspection only, for consistency between the documents, the labelling and the products; 'physical check` means a check of the product itself, including, where appropriate, sampling and laboratory testing; 'product` means feedingstuffs and all substances used in animal nutrition; 'competent authority` means the Member State's authority responsible for carrying out official checks in the field of animal nutrition; 'establishment` means any undertaking which produces or manufactures a product or which holds the product at an intermediate stage before marketing or which markets the products; 'marketing` means the holding of products with a view to their sale or other forms of disposal to others, by way of gift or in return for payment, and also sale and other forms of disposal themselves. 2. The definitions given in the Community legislation relating to the field of animal nutrition shall apply where appropriate.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-13 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.