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Defined Terms That Begin With “Z”

Term	Definition	Country	Citation/Link
zero emission bus	a low or no emission bus that produces no carbon or particulate matter.	United States	uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre...
zero point	that point being the point of commencement of the railway specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.	United Kingdom	2012 No. 345
zero response	the mean response to a zero gas during a 30 s time interval.	European Union	42010X0831(01)
zero setting device	a device by which a machine may be balanced, set to indicate zero, or set to a datum position when the load receptor is empty.	United Kingdom	2006 No. 5
zero-carbon home certificate	a certificate issued under regulation 6(1).	United Kingdom	2007 No. 3437
zero-delivery	to hedge commodity quantity risk of a commercial nature. The Commission should therefore clarify, in any future interpretive guidance, that zero-delivery embedded volumetric options are generally commodity options because the delivery obligation is not obligatory.	United States	77 FR 48207
zero-net-energy building	a building that is designed, constructed, and operated to require a greatly reduced quantity of energy to operate, meet the balance of energy needs from sources of energy that do not produce greenhouse gases, and therefore result in no net emissions of greenhouse gases and be economically viable.	United States	uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre...
zero-rated supply	a supply included in Schedule VI.	Canada	R.S.C., 1985, c. E-15
zero-setting device	a device for setting the indication to zero when there is no load on the load receptor.	United Kingdom	2006 No. 1255
zig-zag line	a road marking of the size, colour and type shown in diagram 1001.3 which has been placed along a length of carriageway adjacent to a signal-controlled crossing facility.”.	United Kingdom	2005 No. 428
zirconium tubes	tubes as described in entry 1.6;	United Kingdom	2004 No. 1255
zone administrator	a person designated as a zone administrator under section 10. (“administrateur de zone”) 2002, c. 22, Sched. B, s. 1.	Canada	www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/02t22
zone school	a school listed in Schedule 1 to this Order.	United Kingdom	1999 No. 3412
zone	part of the territory of a Member State as delimited by it;	European Union	32002L0003
zone	that part of the area of the Outer Harbour the boundaries of which are described in Schedule 2 and shown edged green on the harbour map.	United Kingdom	2011 No. 1347
zoning plan	Plan No. E 3263, prepared by the Department of Public Works and Government Services and dated December 1, 2008.	Canada	SOR/2012-98
zoning regulation	any regulation made pursuant to subsection (2).	Canada	R.S.C., 1985, c. A-2
zoning	a partition where the planned land use is depicted, making explicit the rights and prohibitions regarding new constructions that apply within each partition element.	European Union	32013R1253
zoonosis	any disease and/or infection which is naturally transmissible directly or indirectly between animals and humans;	European Union	32003L0099
zoos	all permanent establishments where animals of wild species are kept for exhibition to the public for 7 or more days a year, with the exception of circuses, pet shops and establishments which Member States exempt from the requirements of this Directive on the grounds that they do not exhibit a significant number of animals or species to the public and that the exemption will not jeopardise the objectives of this Directive.	European Union	31999L0022
zootechnical additive	an additive belonging to one or more of the groups of additives specified in Part I of Annex C to Directive 70/524/EEC, as amended by Directive 96/51/EC;	United Kingdom	1999 No. 1871
zootechnical additive	any additive used to maintain animals in good health or favourably affect their performance.	United Kingdom	2009 No. 2297
zootechnical certificate	a certificate detailing the identity, ancestry, blood type, and performance or progeny test results;	Ireland	www.irishstatutebook.ie/2009/en/si/00...
zootechnical feedingstuff	a feedingstuff that contains a zootechnical additive or zootechnical premixture;	United Kingdom	1998 No. 1047
zootechnical premixture	a premixture that contains a zootechnical additive.	United Kingdom	1998 No. 1049
zootechnical product	a zootechnical additive, a zootechnical premixture or a zootechnical feedingstuff.	United Kingdom	1998 No. 1047
zoo	a permanent establishment where animals of wild species are kept for exhibition to the public and includes an establishment to which regulation 21 applies.	United Kingdom	2003 No. 115