Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the Directive” means Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8th June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic commerce) M1;

• “information society services”—

  1. (a)

     has the meaning given in Article 2(a) of the Directive (which refers to Article 1(2) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22nd June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations M2); and

  2. (b)

     is summarised in recital 17 of the Directive as covering “any service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by means of electronic equipment for the processing (including digital compression) and storage of data, and at the individual request of a recipient of a service”;

• “recipient of the service” means any person who, for professional ends or otherwise, uses an information society service, in particular for the purposes of seeking information or making it accessible;

• “relevant offence” means an offence under—

  1. (a)

     section 59A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 M3 (trafficking people for sexual exploitation); F1...

  2. (b)

     section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 M4 (trafficking people for labour and other exploitation);

  3. (c)

     F2 section 2 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

• “service provider” means a person providing an information society service; and

• F3...

For the purpose of construing references in these Regulations to a service provider who is established F4in an EEA state—