S.L. 117.32 Art. 3Cap. 117.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires: "the Act" means the Supplies and Services Act;

"the Committee" means the Committee on Transfers of Defence-Related Products, established under regulation 25;

"defence-related product" means any product listed in the Schedule;

"the Directive" means Directive 2009/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 simplifying terms and conditions of transfers of defence-related products within the Community; "the Director" means the Director responsible for issuing export licences for defence-related products or any other person so delegated;

"end-user" means the legal or natural person where the products reach their final destination;

"export licence" means an authorisation to supply defence-related products to a legal or natural person in any third country;

"the Minister" means the Minister responsible for trade; "passage through" means the transport of defence-related products through one or more Member States other than the originating and receiving Member States;

"recipient" means the legal or natural person established within the Community who is legally responsible for the receipt of a transfer; "supplier" means the legal or natural person established within the Community who is legally responsible for a transfer; "transfer" means any transmission or movement of a defence-related product from a supplier to a recipient in another Member State; "transfer licence" means an authorisation by a national authority of a Member State for suppliers to transfer defence-related products to a recipient in another Member State which can be one of the following:

(a) a "general transfer licence", which is an authorisation published by a national authority of a Member State granting suppliers, established in its territory, permission to transfer defence-related products specified therein to a category or categories of recipients in another Member State whilst fulfilling any terms and conditions contained therein;

(b) a "global transfer licence", which is an authorisation granted by a national authority to an individual supplier, at its request, authorising transfers of defence-related products to recipients in one or more states;

(c) an "individual transfer licence", which is an authorisation granted to an individual supplier at its request authorising one transfer of a specified quantity of specified defence-related products to be transmitted in one or several shipments to one recipient of other Member States.