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

(1) ‘substance’ means a substance as defined in point (1) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006;

(2) ‘mixture’ means a mixture as defined in point (2) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006;

(3) ‘article’ means an article as defined in point (3) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006;

(4) ‘making available’ means any supply, whether in return for payment or free of charge;

(5) ‘introduction’ means the act of bringing a substance into the territory of a Member State, irrespective of its destination within the Union, whether from another Member State or from a third country, under any customs procedure, as defined in Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council () including transit;

(6) ‘use’ means use as defined in point (24) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006;

(7) ‘suspicious transaction’ means any transaction concerning regulated explosives precursors for which there are reasonable grounds, after taking account of all relevant factors, for suspecting that the substance or mixture concerned is intended for the illicit manufacture of explosives;

(8) ‘member of the general public’ means any natural or legal person who is acting for purposes not connected with that person’s trade, business, or profession;

(9) ‘professional user’ means any natural or legal person or public entity or group of such persons or entities that has a demonstrable need for a restricted explosives precursor for purposes connected with its trade, business, or profession, including agricultural activity, conducted either on a full-time or part-time basis and not necessarily related to the size of the area of land on which that agricultural activity is conducted, provided that such purposes do not include making that restricted explosives precursor available to another person;

(10) ‘economic operator’ means any natural or legal person or public entity or group of such persons or entities which make regulated explosives precursors available on the market, either offline or online, including on online marketplaces;

(11) ‘online marketplace’ means a provider of an intermediary service that allows economic operators on the one side, and members of the general public, professional users, or other economic operators, on the other side, to conclude transactions regarding regulated explosives precursors via online sales or service contracts, either on the online marketplace’s website or on an economic operator’s website that uses computing services provided by the online marketplace;

(12) ‘restricted explosives precursor’ means a substance listed in Annex I that is at a concentration higher than the corresponding limit value set out in column 2 of the table in Annex I, including a mixture or another substance in which a substance listed in that Annex is present at a concentration higher than the corresponding limit value;

(13) ‘regulated explosives precursor’ means a substance listed in Annex I or II including a mixture or another substance in which a substance listed in those Annexes is present, excluding homogeneous mixtures of more than 5 ingredients in which the concentration of each substance listed in Annex I or II is below 1 % w/w;

(14) ‘agricultural activity’ means the production, rearing or growing of agricultural products including harvesting, milking, breeding animals and keeping animals for farming purposes, or maintaining the agricultural area in good agricultural and environmental condition as established under Article 94 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council ().