S.L. 379.11 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 379.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"the Act" means the Competition Act;

"applicant authority" means a national competition authority of a Member State which makes a request for mutual assistance as referred to in Chapter VII of the Directive;

"Court" shall have the same meaning assigned to it in the Act;

"the Directive" means Directive (EU) 2019/1 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 to empower the competition authorities of the Member States to be more effective enforcers, and to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market;

"enforcement proceedings" means the proceedings before a national competition authority of one of the Member States for the application of Articles 101 and, or 102 of the TFEU, until that competition authority has closed such proceedings either by concluding that there are no grounds for further action on its part or by taking a decision referred to in Articles 10, 12 or 13 of the Directive;

"final decision" means a decision delivered by a national competition authority, which includes any decision delivered by a national administrative competition authority or any judgment or decision delivered by a Court or Tribunal or other adjudicating body in a Member State imposing fines or periodic penalty payments adopted in accordance with Articles 13 and 16 of the Directive that cannot be, or that can no longer be, appealed by ordinary means;

"national competition authority" shall have the same meaning assigned to it in the Act;

"Office" shall have the same meaning assigned to it in the Act; "requested authority" means a national competition authority which receives a request for mutual assistance from a national competition authority of another Member State and, in the case of a request for assistance as referred to in Articles 25, 26, 27 or 28 of the Directive, means the competent public body which has principal responsibility for the enforcement of such decisions under national laws, regulations and administrative practice of the Member State in question;

"request for assistance" means a request submitted by an applicant authority to a requested authority, for the notification of preliminary objections and other documents in terms of Article 25 of the Directive, or for the enforcement of decisions imposing fines or periodic penalty payments in terms of Article 26 of the Directive;

"TFEU" means the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

(2) Other terms used in these regulations shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Act.