S.L. 552.32 Art. 2Interpretation. 2 [S.L. Cap. 552. 3

(1) Unless otherwise stated in these regulations, the definitions prescribed in the Act shall apply. REALISATION OF THE TRANS-EUROPEAN TRANSPORT 552.32 NETWORK (TEN-T)

(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Development Planning Act;

"authorising decision" means the decision or a set of decisions, which may be of an administrative nature, taken simultaneously or successively by the Authority, not including decisions further to appeal, that determine whether or not a project promoter is entitled to implement the project on the geographical area concerned, without prejudice to any decision taken in the context of an administrative or judicial appeal procedure;

"the Authority" means the same as the meaning assigned to it in article 2 of the Act;

"cross-border project" means a project covering a cross-border section between two (2) or more Member States of the European Union;

"Directive 2014/24/EU" means Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/ EC;

"Directive 2014/25/EU" means Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors and repealing Directive 2004/17/EC;

"Directive (EU) 2021/1187" means Directive (EU) 2021/ 1187 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2021 on streamlining measures for advancing the realisation of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T);

"joint authority" means an authority established by mutual agreement between Malta and one (1) or more other Member States of the European Union to facilitate the permit-granting procedures related to cross-border projects, including joint authorities established by designated authorities where those designated authorities have been empowered by said Member States to establish joint authorities;

"permit-granting procedure" means any procedure for the determination of an application, from its validation date, of an individual project falling within the scope of these regulations in order to obtain the authorising decision as required by the

Authority under European Union or national law, with the exception of urban or land use planning, of procedures related to the award of public procurement contracts, and of steps undertaken at strategic level that do not refer to a specific project, such as strategic environmental assessment, public budgetary planning, as well as national or regional transport plans;

"project" means a proposal for the construction, adaptation or modification of a defined section of the transport infrastructure which aims to improve the capacity, safety and efficiency of that infrastructure and of which the implementation has to be approved by means of an authorising decision;

"project promoter" means the applicant for authorisation of the implementation of a project or the public authority which initiates a project;

"Regulation (EU) 1315/2013" means Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on Union guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network and repealing Decision No 661/2010/EU;

"Regulation (EU) 2021/1153" means Regulation (EU) 2021/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2021 establishing the Connecting Europe Facility and repealing Regulations (EU) No 1316/2013 and (EU) No 283/ 2014.