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

(1) ‘drug’ means any of the following:

(a) a substance covered by the 1961 United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the 1972 Protocol, or by the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances;

(b) any of the substances listed in the Annex to Council Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA ;

(2) ‘new psychoactive substance’ means new psychoactive substance as defined in Article 1, point 4, of Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA;

(3) ‘poly-substance use’ means the use of one or more psychoactive substances or types of psychoactive substance, whether illicit or licit, in particular medicinal products, alcohol and tobacco, at the same time as the use of drugs or sequentially within a short period of time of the use of drugs;

(4) ‘drug precursor’ means a substance that is controlled and monitored in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 273/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and with Council Regulation (EC) No 111/2005 ;

(5) ‘participating country’ means a Member State or a third country which has concluded an agreement with the Union in accordance with Article 54 of this Regulation;

(6) ‘international organisation’ means an organisation and its subordinate bodies governed by public international law, or any other body which is set up by, or on the basis of, an agreement between two or more countries;

(7) ‘United Nations Drug Conventions’ means the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (8) ‘United Nations system’ means the control mechanism system established by the United Nations Drug Conventions.