Article 3 · Regulation (EU) 2025/2645

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Article 3Definitions#

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(1)‘Union compulsory licence’ means a compulsory licence granted by the Commission to exploit a protected invention in order to carry out in the Union relevant activities concerning crisis-relevant products or processes required to manufacture those products;

(2)‘crisis or emergency mode’ means a crisis or emergency mode listed in the Annex, which has been declared pursuant to a Union crisis or emergency mechanism;

(3)‘crisis-relevant product’ means a product that is indispensable for responding to a crisis or emergency in the Union, or for addressing the impact of a crisis or emergency in the Union;

(4)‘relevant activities’ means the act of manufacturing, namely making, or the act of marketing, namely using, offering for sale, selling or importing;

(5)‘right holder’ means the holder or holders of any of the intellectual property rights referred to in Article 2(1);

(6)‘protected invention’ means any invention protected by any of the intellectual property rights referred to in Article 2(1);

(7)‘competent advisory body’ means the advisory body competent under a Union crisis or emergency mechanism as listed in the Annex or, where applicable, the ad hoc advisory body referred to in Article 6(5);

(8)‘customs authorities’ means customs authorities as defined in Article 5, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note.