claimmeans any claim, whether or not asserted by legal proceedings, made before or after 24 February 2022, under or in connection with a contract or transaction, and includes in particular:
competent authoritiesmeans the competent authorities of the Member States as identified on the websites listed in Annex I.
contractincludes 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 transactionmeans any transaction of whatever form, whatever the applicable law, and whether comprising one or more contracts or similar obligations made between the same or different parties;
entity in the specified territoriesmeans any entity having its registered office, central administration or principal place of business in the specified territories, its subsidiaries or affiliates under its control in the specified territories, as well as branches and other entities operating in the specified territories;
goods originating in the specified territoriesmeans goods which are wholly obtained in the specified territories or which have undergone their last substantial transformation there, in accordance, mutatis mutandis, with Article 60 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code;
investment servicesmeans the following services and activities:
specified territoriesmeans the non-government controlled areas of Ukraine in the oblasts of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia;
technical assistancemeans 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, transmission of working knowledge or skills or consulting services;
territory of the Unionmeans the territories of the Member States to which the Treaty is applicable, under the conditions laid down in the Treaty, including their airspace;