- brokering services
means:
- contract
includes a bond, guarantee or indemnity, particularly a financial guarantee or financial indemnity, and credit, whether legally independent or not, as well as any related provision arising under, or in connection with, the transaction;
- contract or transaction
means any transaction of whatever form and whatever the applicable law, whether comprising one or more contracts or similar obligations made between the same or different parties;
- credit institution
means a credit institution as defined in Article 4(1) of Directive 2006/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 relating to the taking up and pursuit of the business of credit institutions, including its branches inside or outside the Union;
- crude oil and petroleum products
means the products listed in Annex IV;
- customs territory of the Union
means the territory as defined in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code.
- Description
refers to the control descriptions of dual-use items set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.3.Definitions of terms between ‘single quotation marks’ are given in a technical note to the relevant item.4.Definitions of terms between ‘double quotation marks’ can be found in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
- economic resources
means assets of every kind, whether tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, which are not funds, but which may be used to obtain funds, goods or services;
- exploration of crude oil
includes the exploration for, prospecting for and management of crude oil reserves, as well as the provision of geological services in relation to such reserves;
- financial institution
means: including its branches, whether inside or outside the Union;
- freezing of economic resources
means preventing their use to obtain funds, goods or services in any way, including, but not limited to, by selling, hiring or mortgaging them;
- freezing of funds
means preventing any move, transfer, alteration, use of, access to, or dealing with funds in any way that would result in any change in their volume, amount, location, ownership, possession, character, destination or other change that would enable the funds to be used, including portfolio management;
- funds
means financial assets and benefits of every kind, including but not limited to:
- goods
includes items, materials and equipment;
- insurance
means an undertaking or commitment whereby one or more natural or legal persons are obliged, in return for payment, to provide one or more other persons, in the event of materialisation of a risk, with an indemnity or a benefit as determined by the undertaking or commitment;
- monitoring
means acquisition, extraction, decoding, recording, processing, analysis and archiving call content or network data.
- refining of crude oil
means the processing, conditioning or preparation of oil for the ultimately final sale of fuels.
- reinsurance
means the activity consisting in accepting risks ceded by an insurance undertaking or by another reinsurance undertaking or, in the case of the association of underwriters known as Lloyd's, the activity consisting in accepting risks, ceded by any member of Lloyd's, by an insurance or reinsurance undertaking other than the association of underwriters known as Lloyd's;
- Related item from Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009
means that the characteristics of the item described in the ‘Description’ column lie outside the parameters set out in the description of the dual-use entry referred to.3.Definitions of terms between ‘single quotation marks’ are given in a technical note to the relevant item.4.Definitions of terms between ‘double quotation marks’ can be found in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
- Syrian credit or financial institution
means:
- Syrian person, entity or body
means:
- technical assistance
means any technical support related to repairs, development, manufacture, assembly, testing, maintenance, or any other technical service, and may take forms such as instruction, advice, training, the transmission of working knowledge or skills or consulting services;
- technology
includes ‘software’.
- telecommunication or internet monitoring or interception services
means those services that provide, in particular using equipment, technology or software as identified in Annex V, access to and delivery of a subject's incoming and outgoing telecommunications and call-associated data for the purpose of its extraction, decoding, recording, processing, analysis and storing or any other related activity.
- territory of the Union
means the territories of the Member States to which the Treaty is applicable, under the conditions laid down in the Treaty, including their airspace;
- UAV
means unmanned aerial vehicle systems capable of a range exceeding 300 km.
- vehicles
includes trailers.
- VMD
means Volume Median Diameter and for water-based systems this equates to Mass Median Diameter (MMD).