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

(1) ‘cultural and creative sectors’ means all sectors:

(a) whose activities, many of which have potential to generate innovation and jobs in particular from intellectual property:

(i) are based on cultural values and artistic and other individual or collective creative expressions; and (ii) include the development, the creation, the production, the dissemination and the preservation of goods and services which embody cultural, artistic or other creative expressions, as well as related functions such as education or management;

(b) irrespective of:

(i) whether the activities of those sectors are market-oriented or non-market-oriented;

(ii) the type of structure that carries out those activities; and (iii) how that structure is financed; those sectors include, inter alia, architecture, archives, libraries and museums, artistic crafts, audiovisual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), tangible and intangible cultural heritage, design (including fashion design), festivals, music, literature, performing arts (including theatre and dance), books and publishing, radio, and visual arts;

(2) ‘legal entity’ means a natural person or a legal person which is created and recognised as such under national law, Union law or international law, which has legal personality and which may exercise rights and be subject to obligations when acting in its own name, or an entity which does not have legal personality as referred to in point (c) of Article 197(2) of the Financial Regulation;

(3) ‘blending operation’ means actions supported by the Union budget, including within blending facilities pursuant to Article 2(6) of the Financial Regulation, that combine non-repayable forms of support and financial instruments from the Union budget with repayable forms of support from development or other public finance institutions, or from commercial finance institutions and investors.