For the purposes of this Agreement:

1. (a)

   the term ‘Agreement’ means the main Agreement, its Protocols and Annexes as well as the acts referred to therein;

2. (b)

   F1the term ‘EFTA States’ means F2the F2Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway;

3. (c)

   the term ‘Contracting Parties’ means, concerning the Community and the EC Member States, the Community and the EC Member States, or the Community, or the EC Member States. The meaning to be attributed to this expression in each case is to be deduced from the relevant provisions of this Agreement and from the respective competences of the Community and the EC Member States as they follow from the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community F3and the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community F1;

4. (d)

   F4the term ‘Act of Accession of 16 April 2003’ shall mean the Act concerning the conditions of Accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded, adopted in Athens on 16 April 2003 F5;

5. (e)

   F6the term ‘ Act of Accession of 25 April 2005 ’ shall mean the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded, adopted in Luxembourg on 25 April 2005 ;

6. (f)

   F7. . . . .

7. (f)

   F8the term ‘ Act of Accession of 9 December 2011 ’ shall mean the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Republic of Croatia and the adjustments to the Treaty on European Union, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 9 December 2011 .