Article 3 DefinitionsE1

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

1. (1)

   ‘protection measure’ means any decision, whatever it may be called, ordered by the issuing authority of F1a participating Member State in accordance with its national law and imposing one or more of the following obligations on the person causing the risk with a view to protecting another person, when the latter person’s physical or psychological integrity may be at risk:

   1. (a)

      a prohibition or regulation on entering the place where the protected person resides, works, or regularly visits or stays;

   2. (b)

      a prohibition or regulation of contact, in any form, with the protected person, including by telephone, electronic or ordinary mail, fax or any other means;

   3. (c)

      a prohibition or regulation on approaching the protected person closer than a prescribed distance;

2. (2)

   ‘protected person’ means a natural person who is the object of the protection afforded by a protection measure;

3. (3)

   ‘person causing the risk’ means a natural person on whom one or more of the obligations referred to in point (1) have been imposed;

4. (4)

   ‘issuing authority’ means any judicial authority, or any other authority designated by F2a participating Member State as having competence in the matters falling within the scope of F3the MRP Regulation, provided that such other authority offers guarantees to the parties with regard to impartiality, and that its decisions in relation to the protection measure may, under the law of F4the participating Member State in which it operates, be made subject to review by a judicial authority and have similar force and effects to those of a decision of a judicial authority on the same matter;

5. (5)

   F5“participating Member State” means a Member State other than Denmark;

6. (5A)

   “MRP Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 606/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters as it has effect in EU law;

7. (5B)

   “the competent court”, in relation to the recognition or enforcement of a protection measure—

   1. (a)

      in England and Wales, means the family court, the county court or the High Court;

   2. (b)

      in Northern Ireland, means a county court or the High Court;

8. (6)

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