{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-2368/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2002/2368",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 of 20 December 2002 implementing the Kimberley Process certification scheme for the international trade in rough diamonds",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-2368",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:\n(a)‘Kimberley Process’ means the forum in which the participants have designed an international certification scheme for rough diamonds;\n(b)‘Kimberley Process certification scheme’ (hereinafter ‘KP certification scheme’) means the international certification scheme negotiated by the Kimberley Process as set out in Annex I;\n(c)‘Participant’ means any State, regional economic integration organisation, WTO-member or separate customs territory that fulfils the requirements of the KP certification scheme and has notified that fact to the Chair of the KP certification scheme;\n(d)‘certificate’ means a document duly issued and validated by a participant's competent authority identifying a shipment of rough diamonds as being in compliance with the requirements of the KP certification scheme;\n(e)‘competent authority’ means the authority designated by a participant to issue, validate or verify certificates;\n(f)‘United Kingdom competent authority’ means ‘the Secretary of State’;\n(g)‘United Kingdom certificate’ means a certificate issued by the United Kingdom competent authority;\n(h)‘conflict diamonds’ means rough diamonds as defined under the KP Certification Scheme;\n(i)‘rough diamond’ means a diamond that is unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted and falls under the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System 7102 10, 7102 21 and 7102 31 (hereinafter ‘HS code’);\n(j)‘imports’ means the physical entering or bringing into any part of the geographical territory of a participant;\n(k)‘export’ means the physical leaving or taking out of any part of the geographical territory of a participant;\n(l)‘shipment’ means one or more parcels;\n(m)‘parcel’ means one or more diamonds that are packed together;\n(n)‘parcel of mixed origin’ means a parcel that contains rough diamonds from two or more countries of origin;\n(o)...\n(p)...\n(q)...",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Regulation (EC) No 254/2003 of 11 February 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 implementing the Kimberley Process certification scheme for the international trade in rough diamonds."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/844), regs. 1, 5(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 2(f) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/844), regs. 1, 5(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 2(g) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/844), regs. 1, 5(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 2(o)-(q) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/844), regs. 1, 5(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/2368/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:13.860791+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."
}