*With regard to wholesale activities (i.e. when a wholesale or retail establishment carries out operations with a view to supplying food of animal origin to another establishment), Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 applies except for:
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**Establishments for which the wholesale activities consist only of storage and transport. In that case, the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004, and the temperature requirements laid down in Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 apply,
With regard to fishery products, primary production:
*Includes farming/fishing/collection of live fishery products (''whether from sea water or fresh water'') with a view to their being placed on the market, and
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*Includes the following associated operations:
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**Slaughter, bleeding, heading, gutting, removing fins, refrigeration and wrapping for transport carried out on board fishing vessels,
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**The transport and storage of fishery products the nature of which has not been substantially altered, including live fishery products, within farms on land, and
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**The transport of fishery products (''whether from sea water or fresh water'') the nature of which has not substantially been altered, including live fishery products, from the place of production to the first establishment of destination.
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