For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

1. (a)

   ‘Kimberley Process’ means the forum in which the participants have designed an international certification scheme for rough diamonds;

2. (b)

   ‘Kimberley Process certification scheme’ (hereinafter ‘KP certification scheme’) means the international certification scheme negotiated by the Kimberley Process as set out in Annex I;

3. (c)

   F1‘Participant’ means any State, regional economic integration organisation, WTO-member or separate customs territory that fulfils the requirements of the KP certification scheme F2and has notified that fact to the Chair of the KP certification scheme;

4. (d)

   ‘certificate’ means a document duly issued and validated by a participant's competent authority identifying a shipment of rough diamonds as being in compliance with the requirements of the KP certification scheme;

5. (e)

   ‘competent authority’ means the authority designated by a participant to issue, validate or verify certificates;

6. (f)

   F3‘United Kingdom competent authority’ means ‘the Secretary of State’;

7. (g)

   F4‘United Kingdom certificate’ means a certificate issued by the United Kingdom competent authority;

8. (h)

   ‘conflict diamonds’ means rough diamonds as defined under the KP Certification Scheme;

9. (i)

   ‘rough diamond’ means a diamond that is unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted and falls under the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System 7102 10, 7102 21 and 7102 31 (hereinafter ‘HS code’);

10. (j)

    ‘imports’ means the physical entering or bringing into any part of the geographical territory of a participant;

11. (k)

    ‘export’ means the physical leaving or taking out of any part of the geographical territory of a participant;

12. (l)

    ‘shipment’ means one or more parcels;

13. (m)

    ‘parcel’ means one or more diamonds that are packed together;

14. (n)

    ‘parcel of mixed origin’ means a parcel that contains rough diamonds from two or more countries of origin;

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