L 327/16
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
21.12.2022
(27) ‘fixed costs arising from participation in quality scheme’ means the costs incurred for entering a supported quality scheme and the annual contribution for participating in that quality scheme, including, where necessary, expenditure on checks required to verify compliance with the specifications of the quality scheme; (28) ‘food based biofuel’ means a biofuel produced from food and feed crops, as defined in Directive (EU) 2018/2001; (29) ‘foodstuffs’ means foodstuffs which are not agricultural products and which are listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (22); (30) ‘gross grant equivalent’ means the amount of the aid if it had been provided in the form of a grant to the beneficiary, before any deduction of tax or other charges; (31) ‘individual aid’ means: (a) ad hoc aid; (b) awards of aid to individual beneficiaries on the basis of an aid scheme; (32) ‘intangible assets’ means assets that do not have a physical or financial embodiment such as patents, licences, know-how or other intellectual property; (33) ‘investments to comply with a Union standard’ means investments made to comply with a Union standard after the expiry of the transitional period provided for in Union legislation; (34) ‘large enterprises’ means undertakings not fulfilling the criteria laid down in Annex I; (35) ‘marketing of agricultural products’ means holding or displaying with a view to sale, offering for sale, delivery or any other manner of placing on the market, except the first sale by a farmer to resellers or processors and any activity preparing a product for such first sale; a sale by a farmer to final consumers is considered as marketing of agricultural products if it takes place in separate premises or facilities reserved for that purpose; (36) ‘mutual funds’ means a scheme accredited by a Member State in accordance with its national law for affiliated farmers to insure themselves, whereby compensation payments are made to affiliated farmers who experience economic losses; (37) ‘Natura 2000 areas’ means special agriculture or forest areas as referred to in Article 3 of Directive 92/43/EEC and in Article 3 of Directive 2009/147/EC; (38) ‘natural disasters’ means earthquakes, avalanches, landslides and floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions and wild fires of natural origin; (39) ‘non-productive investment’ means investment which does not lead to a significant increase in the value or profitability of the holding; (40) ‘operations prior to industrial processing’ means felling, dismembering, stripping, cutting up, storage, protective treatment and drying of wood and all other working operations prior to the industrial sawing of wood at a sawing mill; as well as sawmilling where the maximum processing capacity is 20,000 m3 roundwood input for sawmilling per year; (41) ‘other adverse climatic events’ means unfavourable weather conditions which do not fall within the definition of adverse climatic event which can be assimilated to a natural disaster; (42) ‘outermost regions’ means the regions referred to in Article 349, first paragraph, of the Treaty; (43) ‘plant pest’ means: any species, strain or biotype of plant, animal or pathogenic agent injurious to plants or plant products; (44) ‘primary agricultural production’ means the production of products of the soil and of stock farming, listed in Annex I to the Treaty, without performing any further operation changing the nature of such products; (45) ‘processing of agricultural products’ means any operation on an agricultural product resulting in a product which is also an agricultural product, except on-farm activities necessary for preparing an animal or plant product for first sale; (22) Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs (OJ L 343, 14.12.2012, p. 1).