CHAPTER I

SUBJECT MATTER AND DEFINITIONS
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:
1. ‘Kimberley Process’ means the forum in which the participants have designed an international certification scheme for rough diamonds;
2. ‘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. ‘Participant’ means any State, regional economic integration organisation, WTO-member or separate customs territory that fulfils the requirements of the KP certification scheme
and has notified that fact to the Chair of the KP certification scheme
;
4. ‘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. ‘competent authority’ means the authority designated by a participant to issue, validate or verify certificates;
6. ‘United Kingdom competent authority’ means ‘the Secretary of State’;
7. ‘United Kingdom certificate’ means a certificate issued by the United Kingdom competent authority;
8. ‘conflict diamonds’ means rough diamonds as defined under the KP Certification Scheme;
9. ‘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. ‘imports’ means the physical entering or bringing into any part of the geographical territory of a participant;
11. ‘export’ means the physical leaving or taking out of any part of the geographical territory of a participant;
12. ‘shipment’ means one or more parcels;
13. ‘parcel’ means one or more diamonds that are packed together;
14. ‘parcel of mixed origin’ means a parcel that contains rough diamonds from two or more countries of origin;
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Substituted by Council Regulation (EC) No 254/2003 of 11 February 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 implementing the Kimberley Process certification scheme for the international trade in rough diamonds.
Words in Art. 2(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/844), regs. 1, 5(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 2(f) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/844), regs. 1, 5(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 2(g) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/844), regs. 1, 5(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 2(o)-(q) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/844), regs. 1, 5(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)