Regulation 2 Interpretation

“the 1993 Structural Funds Regulation” means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4253/88^f1 laying down provisions for implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2052/88^f2 as regards co-ordination of the activities of the different Structural Funds between themselves and with the operations of the European Investment Bank and the other existing financial instruments, as amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2082/93^f3;

“the 1994 Structural Funds Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1681/94^f4 concerning irregularities and the recovery of sums wrongly paid in connection with the financing of the structural policies and the organisation of an information system in this field;

“the 1997 Structural Funds Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2064/97^f5 (as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2406/98^f6 establishing detailed arrangements for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4253/88 as regards the financial control by Member States of operations co-financed by the Structural Funds;

“the 1999 Structural Funds Regulation” means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1260/1999^f7 laying down provisions on the Structural Funds;

“the 2000 Structural Funds Regulations” means, collectively, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 643/2000^f8 on arrangements for using the euro for the purposes of the budgetary management of the Structural Funds; Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1159/2000^f9 on information and publicity measures to be carried out by the Member States concerning assistance from the Structural Funds and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1685/2000^f10 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1260/1999 as regards eligibility of expenditure of operations co-financed by the Structural Funds;

“the Assembly” means the National Assembly for Wales;

“the European Social Fund” means the fund (which is one of the Structural Funds) established under Articles 146 to 148 of the Treaty establishing the European Community^f11;

“the Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State for Education and Employment;

“Structural Funds” means the funds identified in Article 159 of the Treaty establishing the European Community^f12;

“the transferred programmes” means those programmes for the operation of the Structural Funds known as

“Wales” includes the sea adjacent to Wales out as far as the boundary of the territorial sea and the boundary between those parts of the sea within the Severn and Dee Estuaries which are to be treated as adjacent to Wales and those which are not shall be, in each case, a line drawn between the co-ordinates set out in Schedule 3 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999^f13.