Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Directive the following definitions shall apply:
1. ‘European protection order’ means a decision, taken by a judicial or equivalent authority of a Member State in relation to a protection measure, on the basis of which a judicial or equivalent authority of another Member State takes any appropriate measure or measures under its own national law with a view to continuing the protection of the protected person;
2. ‘protection measure’ means a decision in criminal matters adopted in the issuing State in accordance with its national law and procedures by which one or more of the prohibitions or restrictions referred to in Article 5 are imposed on a person causing danger in order to protect a protected person against a criminal act which may endanger his life, physical or psychological integrity, dignity, personal liberty or sexual integrity;
3. ‘protected person’ means a natural person who is the object of the protection resulting from a protection measure adopted by the issuing State;
4. ‘person causing danger’ means the natural person on whom one or more of the prohibitions or restrictions referred to in Article 5 have been imposed;
5. ‘issuing State’ means the Member State in which a protection measure has been adopted that constitutes the basis for issuing a European protection order;
6. ‘executing State’ means the Member State to which a European protection order has been forwarded with a view to its recognition;
7. ‘State of supervision’ means the Member State to which a judgment within the meaning of Article 2 of Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA, or a decision on supervision measures within the meaning of Article 4 of Framework Decision 2009/829/JHA, has been transferred.