S.L. 9.20 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 460.

For the purposes of these regulations unless the context otherwise requires -"competent authority" means the means a judicial authority or another authority, which is competent, under the law of its Member State, to carry out the acts envisaged by Article 2(1) of the Arrangement;

"contacted authority" means the competent authority of another Member State which the competent authority contacts to confirm the existence of parallel proceedings; "contacting authority" means the competent authority of another Member State which contacts the competent authority to confirm the existence of parallel proceedings; "Eurojust" shall have the same meaning assigned to it by Council Decision 2002/187/JHA on setting up Eurojust, as amended by Council Decision 2003/659/JHA, and Council Decision 2009/426/ JHA of 16 December 2008 on the strengthening of Eurojust, hereinafter referred to as "the Eurojust Decision"; "Member State" means any one of the Member States of the European Union; "parallel proceedings" means criminal proceedings both at a pre-trial and trial phase conducted by two or more Member States relating to the same facts and involving the same person;

"the European Judicial Network" means the European Judicial Network duly established by Council Decision 2008/976/JHA of 16 December 2008 on the European Judicial Network; "the European Union" means the European Union as referred to in the Treaty; CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

"the Treaty" shall have the same meaning assigned to it by article 2 of the European Union Act.