S.L. 601.10 Art. 2Interpretation. S.L. 601.09. S.L. 601.07. S.L. 601.09. S.L 601.05.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"contracting authorities" means the State, regional or local authorities, bodies governed by public law or associations formed by one or more such authorities or one or more such bodies governed by public law, but for the purpose of the Concession Contract Regulations only ‘contracting authorities’

shall have the meaning assigned to it in regulation 2 of those regulations;

"contracting entities" means contracting entities as defined in regulation 2 of the Public Procurement of

Contracting Authorities or Entities in the fields of Defence and

Security Regulations, sub-regulation (2) of regulation 2 of the Concession Contract Regulations and sub-regulation (2) of regulation 2 of the Public Procurement of Entities operating in the Water, Energy, Transport and Postal Services Sectors Regulations;

"core elements of an electronic invoice" means a set of essential information components which an electronic invoice must contain in order to enable cross-border interoperability, including the necessary information to ensure legal compliance;

"electronic invoice" means an invoice that has been issued, transmitted and received in a structured electronic format which allows for its automatic and electronic processing;

"European standard on electronic invoicing" means the European standard on electronic invoicing EN 16931-1:2017 for the semantic data model of the core elements of an electronic invoice established by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and published through the European Commission’s Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1870 of 16 October 2017;

"semantic data model" means a structured and logically interrelated set of terms and their meanings that specify the core elements of an electronic invoice;

"sub-central contracting authorities" means sub-central contracting authorities as defined in point (3) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the th Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 20014/18/EC.