The Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Interpretation

17.  For the purposes of this Schedule—

“develop” and “development” means all phases prior to production, including design, design research, design analysis, design conceptualisation, assembly and testing of prototypes, pilot production schemes, design data, the process of transforming design data into a product, configuration design, integration design and producing layouts;

“firearm” means any portable barrelled weapon that expels, is designed to expel or may be converted to expel, a shot, bullet or projectile by the action of a combustible propellant;

“micro-programme” means a sequence of elementary instructions, maintained in a special storage, the execution of which is initiated by the introduction of its reference instruction into an instruction register;

“production” means all production phases, including construction, production engineering, manufacture, integration, assembly (mounting), inspection, testing and quality assurance;

“programme” means a sequence of instructions to carry out a process in, or convertible into, a form executable by an electronic computer;

“software” means a collection of one or more programmes or micro-programmes fixed in any tangible medium of expression;

“technology” means specific information necessary for the development, production or use of goods mentioned in this Schedule;

“use” means operation, installation (including on-site installation), maintenance and checking, repair, overhaul and refurbishing.