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Definitions For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) ‘participating Member States’ means those Member States whose currency is the euro;

(b) ‘cross-border transport of euro cash by road’ means the professional transport, either for remuneration on behalf of third parties or carried out within a cash-in-transit (hereinafter ‘CIT’) company, by a CIT vehicle by road of euro banknotes or coins from a participating Member State, for supplying euro banknotes or coins to, or collecting them from, one or more locations in one or more other participating Member States, and in the Member State of origin – without prejudice to the transport of a maximum of 20 % of non-euro cash in relation to the total value of cash transported in the same CIT vehicle – where the majority of euro cash deliveries/pick-ups made by a CIT vehicle during the same day is carried out on the territory of the host Member State, or, in the case of point-to-point transport, where the transport takes place between two different participating Member States;

(c) ‘cross-border CIT licence’ means a licence delivered by the granting authority of the Member State of origin which authorises the holder to carry out the cross-border transport of euro cash by road between participating Member States in accordance with the conditions laid down in this Regulation;

(d) ‘granting authority’ means the authority in the Member State of origin in charge of issuing the cross-border CIT licence;

(e) ‘Member State of origin’ means the participating Member State in whose territory the CIT company is established. The CIT company is considered to be established if it is actually pursuing an economic activity, in accordance with Article 49 TFEU, for an indefinite period, through a stable infrastructure from where the business of providing services is actually carried out;

(f) ‘host Member State’ means one or more participating Member States in which a CIT company provides the service of delivering/picking up euro cash other than its Member State of origin;

(g) ‘Member State of transit’ means one or more participating Member States other than the Member State of origin which the CIT vehicle crosses in order either to reach the host Member State or to return to the Member State of origin;

(h) ‘daytime’, when referring to transport, means transport carried out between 06.00 and 22.00;

(i) ‘CIT security staff’ means the employees instructed to drive the CIT vehicle in which the euro cash is being carried or to protect its contents;

(j) ‘CIT vehicle’ means a vehicle used for the professional transport of euro cash by road;

(k) ‘vehicle of ordinary appearance’ means a CIT vehicle which has a normal appearance and does not bear any distinctive signs indicating that it belongs to a CIT company or that it is used for the purposes of transporting euro cash;

(l) ‘point-to-point transport’ means transport from one secure location to another, without any intermediate stops;

(m) ‘secured area’ means a delivery/pick-up point for euro cash located within a building and secured against unauthorised access in terms of equipment (anti-intrusion systems) and access procedures for persons;

(n) ‘secure location’ means a location within a secured area, which is accessible to CIT vehicles and in which CIT vehicles can be loaded and unloaded in a secure manner;

(o) to ‘neutralise’ a banknote means to mutilate or damage it by staining or by other means as specified in Annex II;

(p) ‘intelligent banknote neutralisation system’ or ‘IBNS’ means a system that meets the following conditions:

(i) the banknote container continuously protects the banknotes by means of a euro cash neutralisation system, from a secured area to the euro cash delivery point or from the euro cash pick-up point to a secured area;

(ii) the CIT security staff is not able to open the container outside the pre-programmed time periods and/or locations or to change the pre-programmed time periods and/or locations where the container can be opened once the euro cash transport operation has been initiated;

(iii) the container is equipped with a mechanism for permanently neutralising the banknotes if any unauthorised attempt is made to open the container; and (iv) the requirements laid down in Annex II are complied with;

(q) ‘end-to-end IBNS’ means IBNS that is equipped for end-to-end use, namely the banknotes remain inaccessible to CIT security staff at all times and are under continuous protection by the IBNS from secured area to secured area or, for cassettes for Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) or other types of cash dispensers, from a secured area to the interior of the ATMs or the other types of cash dispensers;

(r) ‘A1’ and ‘B1’, when referring to the level of language skills, mean the levels established by the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, as referred to in Annex VII;

(s) ‘EU official languages’ means the languages referred to in Article 1 of Regulation No 1 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community .