S.L. 217.22 Art. 2Interpretation.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Immigration Act;

"authorisation" means a residence permit, or a long-stay visa issued for the purposes of these regulations;

"the Board" means the Immigration Appeals Board constituted under article 25A of the Immigration Act;

"Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer, Identity Management and Ancillary Services responsible for the performance, functions and duties of the Identity Malta Agency in terms of the Identity Malta Agency

(Establishment) Order;

"the Council" means the Malta Council for Science and Technology;

"education establishment" means a public or private secondary educational establishment, including schools, providers and any other licensed body recognised by Malta or whose programmes of study are recognised in accordance with the Education Act;

"educational project" means a set of educational actions developed by a Maltese educational establishment in cooperation with similar establishments in a third country, with the purpose of sharing cultures and knowledge;

"employer" means any natural person or any legal entity, RESEARCH, STUDIES, TRAINING AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE IN THE MOBILITY PROJECT FOR YOUNG

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for or under the direction or supervision of whom or which the employment is undertaken;

"employment" means the exercise of activities covering any form of labour or work regulated under national law or applicable collective agreements or in accordance with established practice for or under the direction or supervision of an employer;

"family members" means third-country nationals as defined in regulation 4(1) of the Family Reunification Regulations;

"higher education institution" means a provider of non-compulsory formal, non-formal and informal learning or research which serves to obtain a national qualification classified at level 5 of the Malta Qualifications Framework or higher, or a foreign qualification at a comparable level;

"host entity" means a research organisation, a higher education institution, an education establishment, an organisation responsible for a Mobility Project for Young People: Voluntary Projects scheme or an entity hosting trainees to which the third-country national is assigned for the purposes of these regulations and which is located in the territory of Malta, irrespective of its legal form, in accordance with national law;

"Identity Malta Agency" means the Agency established by the Identity Malta Agency (Establishment) Order;

"long-stay visa" means an authorisation issued in accordance with Article 18 of the Schengen Convention;

"Member State" means any State which is a member of the European Union and which is participating in the provisions of the Directive referred to in regulation 1(2);

"Mobility Project for Young People: Voluntary Projects scheme" means a programme of practical solidarity activities, based on a scheme recognised as such by the Union, pursuing objectives of general interest for a non-profit cause, in which the activities are not remunerated, except for reimbursement of expenses and, or pocket money;

"other Member State" means the Member State which first issues an authorisation to a third-country national on the basis of the Directive referred to in regulation 1(2); COUNTRY NATIONALS FOR THE PURPOSES OF RESEARCH, STUDIES, TRAINING AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE IN THE MOBILITY PROJECT FOR YOUNG 217.22 PEOPLE: VOLUNTARY PROJECTS

"research" means creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications;

"researcher" means a third-country national who holds a doctoral degree or an appropriate higher education qualification which gives that third-country national access to doctoral programmes, who is selected by a research organisation and admitted to Malta for carrying out a research activity for which such qualification is normally required;

"research organisation" means any public or private organisation which conducts research and which has been approved for the purposes of these regulations by the Council in accordance with the procedures the Council may issue from time to time;

"residence permit" means an authorisation issued using the format laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1030/2002 entitling its holder to stay legally in the territory of Malta;

"second Member State" means the Member State to which the third country national moves after being granted authorisation by Malta as an other Member State;

"student" means a third-country national who has been accepted by a higher education institution and is admitted to Malta to pursue as a main activity a full-time course of study leading to a higher education qualification recognised by the Malta Qualifications Recognition Information Centre, including diplomas, certificates or doctoral degrees in a higher education institution, which may cover a preparatory course prior to such education, in accordance with Maltese law, or compulsory training;

"third-country national" means a person who is not a citizen of the Union within the meaning of Article 20(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;

"trainee" means a third-country national who holds a degree of higher education or is pursuing a course of study in a third country that leads to a higher education degree and who is admitted to the territory of Malta for a training programme for the purpose of gaining knowledge, practice and experience in a professional environment; RESEARCH, STUDIES, TRAINING AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE IN THE MOBILITY PROJECT FOR YOUNG

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"Union or multilateral programmes that comprise mobility measures" means programmes funded by the Union or by Member States promoting mobility of third-country nationals in the Union or in the Member States participating in the respective programmes;

"volunteer" means a third-country national who is admitted to Malta to participate in the Mobility Project for Young People: Voluntary Projects scheme.