Term |
OIE Aquatic Animal Health Code. |
Aquatic Manual |
means the Manual of Diagnostic Tests for Aquatic Animals. |
Competent Authority |
means the National Veterinary Services, or other Authority of a Member Country, having the responsibility and competence for ensuring or supervising the implementation of the aquatic animal health measures recommended in this Aquatic Code. |
Diagnosis |
means determination of the nature of a disease. (see also Diagnosis under Additional Definitions Relevant To National Surveillance Programmes For Disease Control, below) |
Disease |
means clinical or nonclinical infection with one or more of the aetiological agents of the diseases listed in this Aquatic Code. |
Disease agent[2] |
means an organism that causes or contributes to the development of a disease listed in this Aquatic Code. |
Diseases listed by the OIE |
means diseases that fulfil the criteria outlined in Chapter 1.1.2 of
this Aquatic Code. (Chapter 1.1.2 - http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/fcode/A_00004.htm) |
Disease outbreak |
means an occurrence of disease in an aquatic animal population. |
Emerging disease |
means a newly recognised serious disease, the cause of which may or may not yet be established, that has the potential to be spread within and between populations, for example by way of trade in aquatic animals and/or aquatic animal products. |
Imported outbreak |
means a disease outbreak introduced into a territory from another country. |
Incidence |
means the number of new outbreaks of disease within a specified period of time in a defined aquatic animal population. |
Infected zone |
means a clearly defined zone in which a disease
of aquatic animals included in this Aquatic Code has been
diagnosed. This area must be clearly defined and decreed by the Competent
Authority in accordance with the environment, the different ecological and
geographical factors, the epidemiological factors and the type of aquacultural
activity being practised. |
International trade |
means import, export or transit of aquatic animals, aquatic animal products, biological products and pathological material. |
Laboratory |
means a laboratory of high technical competence under direct supervision of a veterinarian or other person with competent biological training. Through quality controls and monitoring performance, the Competent Authority approves such a laboratory in regard to testing requirements for export. |
Prevalence |
means the total number of infected aquatic animals expressed as a percentage of the total number of aquatic animals in a given aquatic animal population at one specific time. |
Risk |
means the probability of an adverse event of aquatic animal health, public health or economic importance, such as a disease outbreak, and the magnitude of that event. |
Risk assessment |
means the processes of identifying and estimating the risks associated with the importation of a commodity and evaluating the consequences of taking those risks. |
Risk communication |
means the processes of communicating the risk assessment results to the regulators of the import programmes, and to other interested parties, such as industry and the public. |
Risk management |
means the identification, documentation and implementation of the measures that can be applied to reduce risks and their consequences. |
Susceptible species |
means aquatic animals that are capable of being infected by a given disease agent. |
Surveillance |
means a systematic series of investigations of a given population of aquatic animals to detect the occurrence of disease for control purposes, and which may involve testing samples of a population. |
Surveillance zone |
means a zone in which a systematic series of investigations of a given population of aquatic animals takes place. |
Targeted surveillance |
means surveillance targeted at a specific disease or infection. |
Zone |
means a portion of one or more countries comprising an entire catchment area from the source of a waterway to the estuary, more than one catchment area, part of a catchment area from the source of a waterway to a barrier, or a part of the coastal area, or an estuary with a precise geographical delimitation, that consists of a homogeneous hydrological system. |
Zoning |
means identifying zones for disease control purposes. |
[1] Italicized text refers to
other definitions in the OIE Code. These may/may not be included in the list
selected for this Consultation report. [2] Disease is also caused by non-infectious agents or abiotic factors. However, for prevention of disease spread with live aquatic animal movements, the term disease used in this report applies solely of those caused by infectious agents (infectious or contagious disease). |