# Council Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 of 20 December 2002 implementing the Kimberley Process certification scheme for the international trade in rough diamonds, Article 2

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:
(a)‘Kimberley Process’ means the forum in which the participants have designed an international certification scheme for rough diamonds;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(e)‘competent authority’ means the authority designated by a participant to issue, validate or verify certificates;
(f)‘United Kingdom competent authority’ means ‘the Secretary of State’;
(g)‘United Kingdom certificate’ means a certificate issued by the United Kingdom competent authority;
(h)‘conflict diamonds’ means rough diamonds as defined under the KP Certification Scheme;
(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’);
(j)‘imports’ means the physical entering or bringing into any part of the geographical territory of a participant;
(k)‘export’ means the physical leaving or taking out of any part of the geographical territory of a participant;
(l)‘shipment’ means one or more parcels;
(m)‘parcel’ means one or more diamonds that are packed together;
(n)‘parcel of mixed origin’ means a parcel that contains rough diamonds from two or more countries of origin;
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/2368/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-2368/article-2
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