S.L. 639.12 Art. 2Interpretation.  S.L. 595.39.    Cap. 639.   Cap. 442.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Agency" means the Malta Food Agency established by the Malta Food Agency (Establishment) Order and which shall deliver a public service in relation to food from farming and fisheries;

"agricultural activity" means the cultivation of agricultural products, including harvesting, the production obtained from animal breeding or from keeping animals for farming purposes which activity is derived and produced in Malta;

"agricultural marketing centre" means the marketing centres established by these regulations which sell solely agricultural produce, and it shall include the Pitkalija agricultural marketing centre of Ta’ Qali referred to in regulation 4;

"agricultural premises" means any premises where agricultural activity is carried out including fields, greenhouses, farms and agricultural warehouses;

"agricultural produce" means any produce which is cultivated or grown in Malta that is derived from an agricultural activity;

"agricultural producer" means a producer who cultivates or obtains an agricultural product from agricultural activity;

"agricultural retailer" means a physical person, including a society, whether corporate or otherwise or an association that AND MALTESE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING CENTRES

sells agricultural produce by retail from a shop or by hawking, authorised to do so by the Agency;

"conflict of interest" means a situation where any official or sales agent has a private or personal interest that influences, or appears to influence, what is actually expected of him in the performance of his duties;

"crates" means an official container of the Agency as referred to in regulation 9;

"farmer" means a natural or a juridical person, or a group of natural or juridical persons responsible for a holding and who exercise an agricultural activity as defined in the Agriculture

Act;

''foreign agricultural produce'' means agricultural produce that is not cultivated or produced in Malta;

"foreign food product" means any food product that is not processed or produced in Malta;

"person" means a natural person, body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, or an association;

"place of agricultural business" means any shop or other premises, truck or other vehicle, and any other place or means in or from which sales of agricultural produce is effected;

"purchase" means the acquisition, by any onerous title, of any agricultural produce;

"sale" means the transfer under any onerous title of agricultural produce, and "sell" shall be construed accordingly;

"sales agent" means a physical person, a juridical person, whether corporate or unincorporate, or an association who has been authorised by the Agency to sell agricultural produce at the agricultural marketing centres;

"society" means a co-operative society among farmers duly registered under the Co-operative Societies Act which includes a body having a distinct legal personality.