S.L. 77.1 чл. 2Interpretation.

For the purpose of these regulations:

"conviction" means any final judgment of a court of criminal jurisdiction against a natural person in respect of a criminal offence, to the extent that these judgments are entered in the national register of the criminal records;

"convicting Member State" means the Member State where a conviction is handed down;

"criminal proceedings" means the pre-trial stage, the trial stage itself and the execution of the conviction;

"criminal record" means the national register of criminal records which records convictions in accordance with Maltese legislation;

"ECRIS reference implementation" means the software developed by the European Commission and made available to the Member States for the exchange of criminal records information through ECRIS; "the European Union" means the European Union as referred to in the Treaty; "facial image" means a digital image of a person’s face;

"fingerprint data" means the data relating to plain and rolled impressions of the fingerprints of each of a person’s fingers;

"Member State" means any one of the Member States of the European Union; BETWEEN MALTA AND OTHER MEMBER STATES

"National Central Authority" means the Director, Department of Justice within the Ministry responsible for Justice who by means of the Conducts and Criminal Records Office within the Department of Justice, is the designated central authority responsible for the national register of the criminal records; "third-country national" means a person who is not a citizen of the European Union within the meaning of Article 20(1) TFEU, or who is a stateless person or a person whose nationality is unknown; "the Treaty" shall have the same meaning assigned to it by article 2 of the European Union Act.