Article 1

For the purpose of this Decision:

‘participating Member State’ shall mean a Member State which has adopted the single currency in accordance with the Treaty;

‘draft legislative provisions’ shall mean any such provisions which, once they become legally binding and of general applicability in the territory of a Member State, lay down rules for an indefinite number of cases and are addressed to an indefinite number of natural or legal persons.

Draft legislative provisions shall not include draft provisions the exclusive purpose of which is the transposition of Community directives into the law of Member States.