Article 2 Definitions

‘entity’ means any natural or legal person:

‘collection body’ means a Union body, office or agency or national body, authority or register designated as such pursuant to any of the Union legislative acts under Article 1(1), point (a), or designated as such by a Member State in accordance with Article 3(2);

‘data extractable format’ means any open format as defined in Article 2, point (14), of Directive (EU) 2019/1024 that is widely used or required by law, that allows data extraction by a machine and that is human-readable;

‘machine-readable format’ means a machine-readable format as defined in Article 2, point (13), of Directive (EU) 2019/1024;

‘qualified electronic seal’ means a qualified electronic seal as defined in Article 3, point (27), of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014;

‘application programming interface’ or ‘API’ means a set of functions, procedures, definitions and protocols for machine-to-machine communication and the seamless exchange of data;

‘metadata’ means structured information that makes it easier to retrieve, use or manage an information resource, including by describing, explaining or locating the source of that information;

‘personal data’ means personal data as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;

‘historical information’ means the information referred to in Article 1(1), point (a), that was made public no earlier than five years before the date of application of the requirement to submit that information to ESAP;

‘Joint Committee’ means the committee referred to in Article 54 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010, Article 54 of Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 and Article 54 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.