Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations—

• “the 1985 Act” means the Companies Act 1985^f1;

• F1“the 2006 Act” means the Companies Act 2006;

• F2“the Companies Acts” has the meaning given by section 2 of F3the 2006 Act;

• “the contract” means the contract for the formation of F4a UKEIG or an EEIG, as the case may be;

• “the EC Regulation” means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2137/85^f2 F5on the European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG);

• F6“EEIG” means a European Economic Interest Grouping, being a grouping—

  1. (a)

     formed in pursuance of Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2137/85 of 25 July 1985 on the European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) as it applies in the European Union and as amended from time to time ; and

  2. (b)

     registered in a Member State;

• F7“EEIG establishment” means an establishment of an EEIG where the establishment is registered in the United Kingdom;

• F8“officer”, in relation to a UKEIG or an EEIG, includes a manager, or any other person provided for in the contract as an organ of the UKEIG or the EEIG, as the case may be;

• F9“the registrar” has the same meaning as in the Companies Acts (see section 1060 of the 2006 Act);

• F10“UKEIG” means a UK Economic Interest Grouping;

and other expressions used in these Regulations and defined F11for the purposes of the Companies Acts or in relation to insolvency and winding up by the Insolvency Act 1986^f3 F12or, as regards Northern Ireland, by the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 have the meanings assigned to them by those provisions as if any reference to a company in any such definition were a reference to F13a UKEIG or an EEIG, as the case may be.

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In these Regulations, “certified translation” means a translation certified to be a correct translation—