Division 2 Definitions

‘HyperText Transport Protocol Secure’ or ‘HTTPS’ means encrypted communication and secure connection channels;

‘Insolvency record’ means the set of information concerning insolvency proceedings of one debtor referred to in Article 24 of Regulation (EU) No 2015/848 that is to be published in the national electronic insolvency registers and available via the central public electronic access point (the European e-Justice Portal), as set out in Article 25 of Regulation (EU) 2015/848;

‘MS IR end-point’ means the source of the insolvency record information; acting as the owner of this information, a MS IR end-point is consulted by the e-Justice Portal and provides the requested data;

‘National Registration Number’ means the register number under which the legal entity is registered in the Commercial Register or Comparable register or the Personal Identification Number or equivalent for individuals.

‘Non-repudiation of origin’ means the measures providing the proof of the integrity and proof of origin of the data through methods such as digital certification, public key infrastructure and digital signatures;

‘Non-repudiation of receipt’ means the measures providing the proof of the receipt of the data to the originator by the intended recipient of the data through methods such as digital certification, public key infrastructure and digital signatures;

‘Platform’ means the central search system part of the e-Justice Portal;

‘Registers’ means insolvency registers as set out in article 24 of Regulation (EU) 2015/848;

‘Simple Object Access Protocol’ means, as per the standards of World Wide Web Consortium, a messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks;

‘Web service’ means a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network; it has an interface described in a machine-processable format.