For the purposes of this regulation, the following definitions are established:
3.1 PERMANENT ADVISOR (ASESOR PERMANENTE): Competent professional voluntarily contracted by the owner of an establishment regulated under the SENASA Law, who commit jointly, the former to provide and the latter to receive, systematic professional advisory services.
3.2 HEALTH AUTHORITY: In accordance with Article six of the General Law of the National Animal Health Service, Nº 8495, the professionals and technicians designated by SENASA shall be considered health authorities; therefore, every person, natural or legal, is subject to the general and particular orders, ordinary and emergency, that this Authority issues in the exercise of its powers. By extension, also to the Veterinary Doctors of the Ministry of Health.
3.3 AUTHORIZATION FOR CONNECTION TO THE SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM: Procedure that must be carried out before the administrator of a sanitary sewer system, when the establishment generates wastewater that discharges directly into said System.
3.4 ANIMAL WELFARE (BIENESTAR ANIMAL): Series of conditions regulated by the World Organisation for Animal Health, based on scientific criteria and related to the animal, its environment, its housing, treatment, care, nutrition, disease prevention, transport, slaughter, and euthanasia when applicable, as the case may be.
3.5 GOOD VETERINARY AND LIVESTOCK PRACTICES (BUENAS PRÁCTICAS VETERINARIAS Y PECUARIAS, BPVPS): Procedures, provisions, and sound professional practice regarding the management and programs for the promotion, prevention, recovery, and rehabilitation of animal diseases, especially zoonotic ones (administration, clinical examination, treatment, drug therapy, prescription, administration and dispensing of drugs, pharmacovigilance, surgical procedures, legal responsibility), animal welfare, drug control (ordering, receipt, storage, delivery, administration, dispensing, destruction), safety of products derived from animals, personnel training, as well as environmental sustainability.
3.6 VETERINARY OPERATION CERTIFICATE (CERTIFICADO VETERINARIO DE OPERACIÓN, CVO): Certificate issued by SENASA, by which the authorization shall be recorded, so that the establishment may engage in one or several of the activities listed in Article 56 of the SENASA Law, Nº 8495.
This document does not grant, recognize, or resolve rights of property or ownership over real estate.
3.7 VETERINARY OPERATION CERTIFICATE IN PRECARIOUS STATUS (CVO Precario): Document granted by SENASA to identify and register the operation of establishments that, for different reasons, maintain civil or administrative non-conformities (inconformidades) that prevent them from immediately obtaining the CVO but which are existing realities and that affect or may affect public health, animal health, or the environment and over which it is necessary to issue sanitary orders, thereby allowing controlled operation in a precarious (precario) status.
This document does not grant, recognize, or resolve rights of property or ownership over real estate.
3.8 PROOF OF PAYMENT (COMPROBANTE): Document that certifies the deposit or transfer by which the CVO, CVO Precario, or its biennial (*) registration fee was paid into a SENASA account.
(*) (Corrected by Erratum published in La Gaceta N° 236 of December 20, 2023, page N° 2. Previously stated: "biannual" ["bianual"]) (As amended the preceding point by Article 1° of Executive Decree N° 43993 of March 15, 2023) 3.9 SWORN STATEMENT (DECLARACIÓN JURADA): Written manifestation issued by the Administered Party, legitimated to act on behalf of the establishment, by which they declare under oath that it meets the requirements and conditions necessary for its operation; that they know and comply with the specific regulations in force and related laws for their type of establishment; and that the information provided in the form approved by SENASA is truthful and current. The foregoing under the administrative sanctions established in the General Law of the National Animal Health Service, Nº 8495, without prejudice to professional, civil, and criminal liability. Said statement must be authenticated by a Lawyer, unless the Administered Party or interested party presents it personally.
3.10 NOTIFIABLE DISEASE (ENFERMEDAD DE DECLARACIÓN OBLIGATORIA): Designates a disease inscribed on a list by SENASA and whose presence must be reported to the latter as soon as it is detected or suspected, in accordance with national regulations.
3.11 ESTABLISHMENT: In accordance with the provisions of Article 56 of the SENASA Law, Nº 8495, they are:
3.11.1 Those where animals are concentrated and commercialized, as well as the livestock production units that SENASA catalogues as a veterinary or epidemiological risk.
3.11.2 Those that manufacture, import, remove from customs warehouse (desalmacenen), fractionate, store, transport, and sell products and by-products of animal origin.
3.11.3 Those destined for the slaughter of animals or that industrialize, package, refrigerate, process, or sell, at the wholesale level, products, by-products, or derivatives of animals, for human or animal consumption.
3.11.4 Those that manufacture, import, remove from customs warehouse (desalmacenen), fractionate, store, transport, and sell veterinary drugs, substances dangerous to animal health, and chemicals for food of animal origin.
3.11.5 Laboratories that provide veterinary services.
3.11.6 Those that manufacture, import, remove from customs warehouse (desalmacenen), fractionate, store, transport, and sell animal feed.
3.11.7 Those that manufacture, import, store, remove from customs warehouse (desalmacenen), fractionate, transport, and sell genetic or biotechnological material of animal origin or intended for animal consumption or use.
3.11.8 Establishments authorized and accredited for the export of agricultural products.
3.11.9 Zoos and other centers where wild animals in captivity are concentrated.
Within this concept, the means of transport of live animals on the hoof, products, by-products, and derivatives of animal origin, animal feed, raw materials destined for animal feed, and veterinary drugs shall be understood as included.
(As added the preceding paragraph by Article 1° of Executive Decree N° 42467 of July 13, 2020) 3.12 UNIFIED FORM (FORMULARIO UNIFICADO): Official document formulated by SENASA, which the user must use when requesting the Veterinary Operation Certificate (CVO) and the Veterinary Operation Certificate in Precarious Status (CVO PRECARIO).
3.13 CIVIL OR ADMINISTRATIVE NON-CONFORMITY (INCONFORMIDAD CIVIL O ADMINISTRATIVA): Circumstance by which an administered party cannot fulfill a requirement requested for the granting of a CVO. It may derive from a fact established in an administrative resolution or from a fact that is being discussed administratively or judicially.
3.14 FACILITIES (INSTALACIONES): All infrastructure that an establishment requires to satisfy the needs of the activity or activities carried out there.
3.15 SENASA LAW: General Law of the National Animal Health Service, Nº 8495, of April 6, 2006, published in La Gaceta Nº 93 of May 16, 2006.
3.16 LAW Nº 8220: Law for the Protection of the Citizen from Excess Requirements and Administrative Procedures, of March 4, 2002, published in La Gaceta Nº 49, Supplement Nº 22 of March 11, 2002.
3.17 MAG: Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.
3.18 SANITARY MEASURES (MEDIDAS SANITARIAS): Those actions imposed by SENASA, among which are those contemplated in Article 89, following and concordant articles of the SENASA Law, aimed at protecting, preserving, and restoring the health of people, animals, and the Environment. They are of mandatory compliance and shall be supported by professional, scientific, and technical criteria.
3.19 SANITARY ORDER (ORDEN SANITARIA): Administrative act by which the Health Authority of SENASA, in its capacity as sanitary police, makes known to the administered party, a particular or special resolution or provision in protection of the health of people, animals, or the environment, which is of mandatory compliance and must be executed within the indicated timeframe. The ordinary remedies of revocation and appeal are admissible against it.
3.20 WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN (PLAN DE MANEJO DE DESECHOS): Implemented process of technical activities and operations employed in an establishment, for adequate management and final disposal of the waste generated by the activity.
3.21 SANITARY EMERGENCY PLAN (PLAN DE EMERGENCIAS SANITARIAS): Implemented process of the phases of prevention, mitigation, preparation, response, and rehabilitation in cases of sanitary emergency situations.
3.22 SANITARY EMERGENCY (EMERGENCIA SANITARIA): Exceptional situation at the regional or national level, which warrants a declaration by the Executive Branch, in accordance with the scope of application of Law Nº 8495, and its Article 92.
3.23 REGENT (REGENTE): Professional duly authorized by the respective professional association, who assumes the technical and scientific direction of an establishment.
3.24 SANITARY AND/OR ENVIRONMENTAL RISK (RIESGO SANITARIO Y/O AMBIENTAL): Condition that causes one or several activities carried out in an establishment to have a negative impact on the health of people, animals, and/or the environment.
3.25 SENASA: Acronym for National Animal Health Service.
3.26 LAND USE (USO DE SUELO): Certification issued by the respective municipality by which the authorized land use in the zone where the establishment will be located is recorded.
3.27 ENVIRONMENTAL FEASIBILITY (VIABILIDAD AMBIENTAL): Resolution issued by the National Environmental Technical Secretariat-SETENA- by which the Environmental Impact Assessment process is approved.