Border post means any airport, or any port, railway station or road check-point open to international trade of commodities , where import veterinary inspections can be performed. Breeding birds means birds kept for the purpose of producing hatching eggs . Case means an individual animal affected by an infectious or parasitic disease. Day-old birds means birds aged not more than 72 hours after hatching. Disinsectisation means the application of procedures intended to eliminate arthropods which may cause diseases or are potential vectors of infectious agents of animal diseases, including zoonoses.
Establishment means the premises in which animals are kept.
Exporting country means a country from which commodities are sent to another country. Flock of birds means any group of birds continuously housed in one building or part of a building separated from other parts of that building by a solid partition and having its own ventilation system, or, in the case of free range birds, any group of birds having common access to one or more buildings or houses. More than one flock of birds may exist in one establishment . Free zone means a clearly defined territory within a country in which no case of a disease included in the Code has been reported during the period stated for such a disease in the Code , and within which and at the borders of which official veterinary control is effectively applied for animals and animal products, and their transportation. Fresh meat means meat that has not been subjected to any treatment irreversibly modifying its organoleptic and physicochemical characteristics.