Article 2

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

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   ‘Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade licensing scheme’ (hereinafter referred to as FLEGT licensing scheme) means the issuing of licences for timber products for export to F1Great Britain from partner countries and its implementation in Great Britain, in particular in F2... provisions on F3import controls;

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   ‘partner country’ means any State or regional organisation that enters into a Partnership Agreement F4, as listed in Annex 1;

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   ‘Partnership Agreement’ means an agreement between the F5United Kingdom and a partner country by which the United Kingdom and that partner country undertake to work together F6... to implement the FLEGT licensing scheme;

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   ‘regional organisation’ means an organisation consisting of sovereign states that have transferred competence to that organisation, granting it the capacity to enter into a Partnership Agreement on their behalf, in respect of matters governed by the FLEGT licensing scheme F7, as listed in Annex 1;

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   ‘FLEGT licence’ means a shipment-based or market participant-based document of a standard format which is to be forgery-resistant, tamper-proof, and verifiable, and which refers to a shipment as being in compliance with the requirements of the FLEGT licensing scheme, duly issued and validated by a partner country’s licensing authority. Systems for issuing, recording and communicating licences may be paper-based or based on electronic means, as appropriate;

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   ‘market participant’ means an actor, private or public, involved in forestry or transformation or trade of timber products;

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   ‘licensing authority(ies)’ means the authority(ies) designated by a partner country to issue and validate FLEGT licences;

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   F8“competent authority” means the Secretary of State;

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   ‘timber products’ means the products set out in Annexes II and III, to which the FLEGT licensing scheme applies, and which, when imported into F9Great Britain, cannot be qualified as ‘goods of a non-commercial nature’ F10...;

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    ‘legally produced timber’ means timber products produced from domestic timber that was legally harvested or timber that was legally imported into a partner country in accordance with national laws determined by that partner country as set out in the Partnership Agreement;

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    ‘imports’ means the release for free circulation of timber products F11Great Britain;

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    ‘shipment’ means a shipment of timber products;

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    ‘export’ means the physical leaving or taking out of timber products from any part of the geographical territory of a partner country to bring them into F12Great Britain;

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    ‘third-party monitoring’ means a system through which an organisation that is independent of a partner country's government authorities and its forest and timber sector monitors and reports on the operation of the FLEGT licensing scheme.

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    F13“goods of a non-commercial nature” means goods whose entry into Great Britain is on an occasional basis and whose nature and quantity indicate that they are intended for the private, personal or family use of the consignees or persons carrying them, or which are clearly intended as gifts;

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    “customs authorities” means the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.