Article 1

For the purposes of these Regulations —

‘Aedes aegypti index’ means the ratio, expressed as a percentage, between the number of houses in a limited well-defined area on the premises of which actual breeding places of Aedes aegypti are found, and the total number of houses examined in that area;

‘aerosol dispenser’ means a dispenser holding a pressurized formulation which produces an insecticidal aerosol when the valve is opened;

‘aircraft’ means an aircraft making an international voyage;

‘airport’ means any airport designated by the Member State in whose territory it is situated as an airport of entry and departure for international air traffic, where the formalities incident to customs, immigration, public health, 1) animal and plant quarantine and similar procedures are carried out;

‘arrival’ of a ship, an aircraft, a train, or a road vehicle means —

‘baggage’ means the personal effects of a traveller or of a member of the crew;

‘container (freight container)’ means an article of transport equipment —

The term ‘container (freight container)’ does not include vehicles or conventional packing;

‘crew’ means the personnel of a ship, an aircraft, a train, a road vehicle other means of transport who are employed for duties on board;

‘day’ means an interval of twenty-four hours;

‘direct transit area’ means a special area established in connexion with an airport, approved by the health authority concerned and under its direct supervision, for accommodating direct transit traffic and, in particular, for accommodating, in segregation, passengers and crews breaking their air voyage without leaving the airport;

‘Director-General’ means the Director-General of the Organization;

‘diseases subject to the Regulations’ (quarantinable diseases) means cholera, including cholera due to the El Tor vibrio, plague, and yellow fever;

‘disinsecting’ means the operation in which measures are taken to kill the insect vectors of human disease present in ships, aircraft, trains, road vehicles or other means of transport, and containers;

‘epidemic’ means an extension of a disease subject to the Regulations by a multiplication of cases in an area;

‘free pratique’ means permission for a ship to enter a port, disembark and commence operation, or for an aircraft, after landing, to disembark and commence operation;

‘health administration’ means the governmental authority responsible over the whole of a territory to which these Regulations apply the implementation of the health measures provided herein;

‘health authority’ means the authority immediately responsible in its jurisdiction for the appropriate health measures permitted or prescribed by these Regulations;

‘imported case’ means an infected person arriving on an international voyage;

‘infected area’ is defined on epidemiological principles by the health administration reporting the disease in its country and need not correspond to administrative boundaries. It is that part of its territory which, because of population characteristics, density and mobility and/or vector and animal reservoir potential, could support transmission of the reported disease;

‘infected person’ means a person who is suffering from a disease subject to the Regulations or who is subsequently shown to have been incubating such a disease;

‘in flight’ means the time elapsing between the closing of the doors of the aircraft before take-off and their opening on arrival;

‘in quarantine’ means that state or condition during which measures are applied by a health authority to a ship, an aircraft, a train, road vehicle, other means of transport or container, to prevent the spread of disease, reservoirs of disease or vectors of disease from the object of quarantine;

‘international voyage’ means —

‘isolation’, when applied to a person or group of persons, means the separation of that person or group of persons from others persons, except the health staff on duty, in such a manner as to prevent the spread of infection;

‘medical examination’ includes visit to and inspection of a ship, an aircraft, a train, road vehicle or other means of transport and container, and the preliminary examination of persons, including scrutiny of vaccination certificates, but does not include the periodical inspection of a ship to ascertain the need for deratting;

‘Organization’ means the World Health Organization;

‘port’ means a seaport or an inland port;

‘ship’ means a seagoing or an inland navigation vessel making an international voyage;

‘suspect’ means a person who is considered by the health authority as having been exposed to infection by a disease subject to the Regulations and is considered capable of spreading that disease;

‘transferred case’ means an infected person whose infection originated in another area under the jurisdiction of the same health administration;

‘valid certificate’, when applied to vaccination, means a certificate conforming with the rules and the model laid down in Appendix 2, 3 or 4.