S.L. 465.52 Art. 3Interpretation. 

For the purpose of these regulations and unless the context otherwise requires:

"application" means the Mobile Contact Tracing and Alerting Application;

"authorisation code" means a unique code provided by a public health authority from the field of care, used to authorise a person who had a positive result for the COVID-19 virus to upload the temporary exposure keys stored on his user terminal to the central server;

"central server" means a central database towards which the application communicates and which stores the temporary exposure keys of virus carriers;

"contact" means the process where users are notified through the application that their user terminal has been in

*This order has been repealed by Legal Notice 256 of 2024. MOBILE APPLICATION

significant proximity to another user terminal belonging to a virus carrier who consented to the voluntary recording of his infection on the application;

"contact tracing" means the disease control methodology that attempts to list all users who have been in significant proximity to a person infected by the COVID-19 virus so as to check whether such persons are at risk of infection and take the appropriate measures towards them;

"controller" means the same as the meaning as assigned to it in Regulation 2016/679/EU;

"eHealth Network" means a voluntary network set up under Article 14 of Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare, and that provides a platform of Member States' competent authorities dealing with digital health;

"European Federation Gateway Service" means a service provided and managed by the eHealth Network, which accepts and temporarily stores data detailed in sub-article (1) of article 10 and uploaded by a participating country, for download to the other participating countries;

"rotating proximity identifiers" means ephemeral, pseudo-random identifiers generated by temporary exposure keys representing a user terminal which are broadcast through proximity tracing technology;

"Participating country" means a country authorised by the eHealth Network to participate in cross-border data exchange between national contact tracing and warning mobile applications based on Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1023 of 15 July 2020 amending Implementing Decision

(EU) 2019/1765 on cross-border data exchange between national contact tracing and warning mobile applications in connection with combating the COVID-19 pandemic;

"Superintendent" means the same as the meaning as assigned to it in the Public Health Act;

"temporary exposure keys" means anonymous keys that are randomly and independently generated using a cryptographic random number generator;

"user" means a person in possession of a user terminal who has voluntarily downloaded and runs the approved application; "user terminal" means the device on which the application is installed;

"virus carrier" means a user who has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and whose infection was verified pursuant to article 7.