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

(1) ‘media service’ means a service as defined by Articles 56 and 57 TFEU, where the principal purpose of the service or a dissociable section thereof consists in providing programmes or press publications, under the editorial responsibility of a media service provider, to the general public, by any means, in order to inform, entertain or educate;

(2) ‘media service provider’ means a natural or legal person whose professional activity is to provide a media service and who has editorial responsibility for the choice of the content of the media service and determines the manner in which it is organised;

(3) ‘public service media provider’ means a media service provider which is entrusted with a public service remit under national law and receives national public funding for the fulfilment of such a remit;

(4) ‘programme’ means a set of moving images or sounds constituting an individual item, irrespective of its length, within a schedule or a catalogue established by a media service provider;

(5) ‘press publication’ means press publication as defined in Article 2, point (4), of Directive (EU) 2019/790;

(6) ‘audiovisual media service’ means audiovisual media service as defined in Article 1(1), point (a), of Directive 2010/13/EU;

(7) ‘editorial decision’ means a decision which is taken on a regular basis for the purpose of exercising editorial responsibility and linked to the day-to-day operation of a media service provider;

(8) ‘editorial responsibility’ means the exercise of effective control both over the selection of programmes or press publications and over their organisation, for the purposes of the provision of a media service, regardless of the existence of liability under national law for the service provided;

(9) ‘online platform’ means online platform as defined in Article 3, point (i), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065;

(10) ‘provider of a very large online platform’ means a provider of an online platform that has been designated as a very large online platform pursuant to Article 33(4) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065;

(11) ‘video-sharing platform service’ means video-sharing platform service as defined in Article 1(1), point (aa), of Directive 2010/13/EU;

(12) ‘video-sharing platform provider’ means video-sharing platform provider as defined in Article 1(1), point (da), of Directive 2010/13/EU;

(13) ‘national regulatory authority or body’ means any authority or body designated by a Member State pursuant to Article 30 of Directive 2010/13/EU;

(14) ‘user interface’ means a service which controls or manages access to and the use of media services providing programmes and which enables users to select media services or content;

(15) ‘media market concentration’ means a concentration as defined in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 involving at least one media service provider or one provider of an online platform providing access to media content;

(16) ‘audience measurement’ means the activity of collecting, interpreting or otherwise processing data about the number and characteristics of users of media services or users of content on online platforms for the purposes of decisions regarding advertising allocation, pricing, purchases or sales or regarding the planning or distribution of content;

(17) ‘proprietary audience measurement’ means audience measurement which does not follow industry standards and best practices agreed through self-regulatory mechanisms;

(18) ‘public authority or entity’ means a national or subnational government, a regulatory authority or body, or an entity controlled, directly or indirectly, by a national or subnational government;

(19) ‘state advertising’ means the placement, promotion, publication or dissemination, in any media service or online platform, of a promotional or self-promotional message or a public announcement or an information campaign, normally in return for payment or for any other consideration, by, for or on behalf of a public authority or entity;

(20) ‘intrusive surveillance software’ means any product with digital elements specially designed to exploit vulnerabilities in other products with digital elements that enables the covert surveillance of natural or legal persons by monitoring, extracting, collecting or analysing data from such products or from the natural or legal persons using such products, including in an indiscriminate manner;

(21) ‘media literacy’ means skills, knowledge and understanding which allow citizens to use media effectively and safely and which are not limited to learning about tools and technologies but aim to equip citizens with the critical thinking skills required to exercise judgment, analyse complex realities and recognise the difference between opinion and fact.