{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-43/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-43/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2009/43",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2009/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 simplifying terms and conditions of transfers of defence-related products within the Community (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-43",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:\n1.. ‘defence-related product’ means any product listed in the Annex;\n2.. ‘transfer’ means any transmission or movement of a defence-related product from a supplier to a recipient in another Member State;\n3.. ‘supplier’ means the legal or natural person established within the Community who is legally responsible for a transfer;\n4.. ‘recipient’ means the legal or natural person established within the Community who is legally responsible for the receipt of a transfer;\n5.. ‘transfer licence’ means an authorisation by a national authority of a Member State for suppliers to transfer defence-related products to a recipient in another Member State;\n6.. ‘export licence’ means an authorisation to supply defence-related products to a legal or natural person in any third country;\n7.. ‘passage through’ means the transport of defence-related products through one or more Member States other than the originating and receiving Member States.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/43/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:13.244754+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}