applicable lawmeans Union law and the national law relating to its application;
irregularitymeans any breach of applicable law resulting from an act or omission by any public or private entity involved in the implementation of the financial contribution from the Reserve, including Member State authorities, which has, or would have, the effect of prejudicing the Union budget by charging an unjustified item of expenditure to the Union budget;
reference periodmeans the reference period referred to in Article 63(5), point (a), of the Financial Regulation, which shall be from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2023;
relocationmeans a transfer of the same or similar activity or part thereof within the meaning of Article 2, point (61a), of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014;
residual error ratemeans the total errors less the financial corrections applied by the Member State to reduce the risks identified by the independent audit body, divided by the expenditure to be declared in the application for a financial contribution from the Reserve;
systemic irregularitymeans any irregularity, which may be of a recurring nature, with a high probability of occurrence in similar types of measures;
total error ratemeans total errors divided by the audit population;
total errorsmeans the sum of the projected random errors and, if applicable, delimited systemic errors and uncorrected anomalous errors;