Defined terms — Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 October 2018 establishing a single digital gateway to provide access to information, to procedures and to assistance and problem-solving services and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 (Text with EEA relevance.)
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8 defined in this instrument.
administrative cooperation — the collaboration between IMI actors by exchanging and processing information for the purpose of better application of Union law (b)
competent authority — any Member State authority or body established at national, regional or local level with specific responsibilities relating to the information, procedures, assistance and problem-solving services covered by this Regulation (4)
cross-border user — a user in a situation which is not confined in all respects within a single Member State (2)
evidence — any document or data, including text or sound, visual or audiovisual recording, irrespective of the medium used, required by a competent authority to prove facts or compliance with procedural requirements referred to in point (b) of Article 2(2) (5)
IMI — the electronic tool provided by the Commission to facilitate administrative cooperation among the IMI actors (a)
IMI actors — the competent authorities, the IMI coordinators, the Commission and the Union bodies, offices and agencies (c)
procedure — a sequence of actions that must be taken by users to satisfy the requirements, or to obtain from a competent authority a decision, in order to be able to exercise their rights as referred to in point (a) of Article 2(2) (3)
user — either a citizen of the Union, a natural person residing in a Member State or a legal person having its registered office in a Member State, and who accesses the information, the procedures, or the assistance or problem-solving services, referred to in Article 2(2), through the gateway (1)