For the purposes of this Chapter:

1. (1)

   ‘ company ’ means a limited liability company of a type listed in Annex II that carries out a cross-border conversion;

2. (2)

   ‘ cross-border conversion ’ means an operation whereby a company, without being dissolved or wound up or going into liquidation, converts the legal form under which it is registered in a departure Member State into a legal form of the destination Member State, as listed in Annex II, and transfers at least its registered office to the destination Member State, while retaining its legal personality;

3. (3)

   ‘ departure Member State ’ means a Member State in which a company is registered prior to a cross-border conversion;

4. (4)

   ‘ destination Member State ’ means a Member State in which a converted company is registered as a result of a cross-border conversion;

5. (5)

   ‘ converted company ’ means a company formed in a destination Member State as a result of a cross-border conversion.