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

(a) ‘Specific Regulations’ means — Regulation (EU) No 516/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

— Regulation (EU) No 513/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (); and — any other regulation which provides for the application of this Regulation;

(b) ‘programming’ means the process of organisation, decision-making and financing in several stages intended to implement, on a multiannual basis, the joint action by the Union and the Member States to achieve the objectives of the Specific Regulations;

(c) ‘action’ means a project or group of projects selected by the Responsible Authority of the national programme concerned, or under its responsibility, contributing to the general and specific objectives pursued by the Specific Regulations;

(d) ‘Union action’ means a transnational action or action of particular interest to the Union as defined in the Specific Regulations;

(e) ‘project’ means the specific practical means deployed to implement all or a part of an action by a beneficiary of a Union contribution;

(f) ‘emergency assistance’ means a project or group of projects addressing an emergency situation as defined in the Specific Regulations;

(g) ‘beneficiary’ means the recipient of a Union contribution under a project, whether a public or private body, international organisation or the International Committee of the Red Cross (‘ICRC’), or the International Federation of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.