brokering services — the negotiation or arrangement of transactions for the purchase, sale or supply of goods and technology or of financial and technical services, including from a third country to any other third country, or the selling or buying of goods and technology or of financial and technical services, including where they are located in third countries for their transfer to another third country (d)

central securities depository — a legal person as defined in point 1 of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*2) (j)

Common channel signalling — the transmission of control information (signalling) via a separate channel than that used for the messages. The signalling channel usually controls multiple message channels. 10) ANNEX VI

competent authorities — the competent authorities of the Member States as identified on the websites listed in Annex I (b)

consumer communication devices — devices used by private individuals such as personal computers and peripherals (including hard drives and printers), mobile telephones, smart televisions, memory devices (USB drives), and consumer software for all of these items (q)

controller — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own Article 1

credit institution — an undertaking, the business of which is to take deposits or other repayable funds from the public and to grant credit for its own account (h)

Data signalling rate — the rate, as defined in ITU Recommendation 53-36, taking into account that, for non-binary modulation, baud and bit per second are not equal. Bits for coding, checking and synchronization functions are to be included. 11) ANNEX VI

deposit — a credit balance which results from funds left in an account or from temporary situations deriving from normal banking transactions and which a credit institution is required to repay under the legal and contractual conditions applicable, including a fixed-term deposit and a savings deposit, but excluding a credit balance where: its existence can only be proven by a financial instrument as defined in Article 4(1)(15) of Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (*3), unless it is a savings product which is evidenced by a certificate of deposit made out to a named person and which exists in a Member State on 2 July 2014; its principal is not repayable at par; its principal is only repayable at par under a particular guarantee or agreement provided by the credit institution or a third party (k)

dual-use goods and technology — the items listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/821 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*1) (a)

Dynamic adaptive routing — Automatic rerouting of traffic based on sensing and analysis of current actual network conditions 12) ANNEX VI

financing or financial assistance — any action, irrespective of the particular means chosen, whereby the person, entity or body concerned, conditionally or unconditionally, disburses or commits to disburse its own funds or economic resources, including but not limited to grants, loans, guarantees, suretyships, bonds, letters of credit, supplier credits, buyer credits, import or export advances and all types of insurance and reinsurance, including export credit insurance; payment as well as terms and conditions of payment of the agreed price for a good or a service, made in line with normal business practice, do not constitute financing or financial assistance (o)

investment services — the following services and activities: reception and transmission of orders in relation to one or more financial instruments; execution of orders on behalf of clients; dealing on own account; portfolio management; investment advice; underwriting of financial instruments and/or placing of financial instruments on a firm commitment basis; placing of financial instruments without a firm commitment basis; any service in relation to the admission to trading on a regulated market or trading on a multilateral trading facility (e)

investor residence schemes — the procedures put in place by a Member State, which allow third-country nationals to obtain a residence permit in a Member State in exchange for pre-determined payments and investments (m)

Media access unit — equipment that contains one or more communication interfaces (“network access controller”, “communications channel controller”, modem or computer bus) to connect terminal equipment to a network. 13) “Spectral effiency” is the “digital transfer rate” [bits/s] / 6 dB spectrum bandwidth in Hz. 14) “Stored program controlled” is a control using instructions stored in an electronic storage that a processor can execute in order to direct the performance of predetermined functions. Note: Equipment may be “stored program controlled” whether the electronic storage is internal or external to the equipment. X.B.III.101 | Telecommunications test equipment, other than those specified in the CML or in Regulation (EU) 2021/821. X.C.III.101 | Preforms of glass or of any other material optimised for the manufacture of optical fibres controlled by X.A.III.101. X.D.III.101 | “Software” specially designed or modified for the “development”, “production” or “use” of equipment controlled by X.A.III.101 and X.B.III.101, and dynamic adaptive routing software as described as follows: a. “Software”, other than in machine-executable form, specially designed for “dynamic adaptive routing”. b. Not used;… ANNEX VI

money-market instruments — those classes of instruments which are normally dealt in on the money market, such as treasury bills, certificates of deposit and commercial papers and excluding instruments of payment (g)

partner country — a country applying a set of export control measures substantially equivalent to those set out in this Regulation, as identified in Annex VIII (p)

technical assistance — any technical support related to repairs, development, manufacture, assembly, testing, maintenance, or any other technical service, and may take forms such as instruction, advice, training, transmission of working knowledge or skills or consulting services, including verbal forms of assistance (c)

terminal interface equipment — equipment at which information enters or leaves the telecommunication system, e.g. telephone, data device, computer, etc. j. Equipment specially designed to provide external interconnection of “digital computers” or associated equipment that allows communications at data rates exceeding 80 Mbyte/s. Note: X.A.II.001.j does not control internal interconnection equipment (e.g., backplanes, buses) passive interconnection equipment, “network access controllers” or “communication channel controllers”. Technical Note: For the purpose of X.A.II.001.j, “communication channel controllers” is the physical interface which controls the flow of synchronous or asynchronous digital information. It is an assembly that can be integrated into computer or telecommunications equipment to provide communications access. k. “Hybrid computers” and “electronic assemblies” and specially designed components therefor containing analog-to-digital converters having all of the following characteristics: 1. 32 channels or more; and 2. A resolution of 14 bit (plus sign bit) or more with a conversion rate of 200 000 Hz or more. X.D.II.001 | “Program” proof and validation “software”, “software” allowing the… ANNEX VI

territory of the Union — the territories of the Member States to which the Treaty is applicable, under the conditions laid down in the Treaty, including their airspace (i)

trading venue — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own (n)

transferable securities — the following classes of securities which are negotiable on the capital market, with the exception of instruments of payment: shares in companies and other securities equivalent to shares in companies, partnerships or other entities, and depositary receipts in respect of shares, bonds or other forms of securitised debt, including depositary receipts in respect of such securities, any other securities giving the right to acquire or sell any such transferable securities or giving rise to a cash settlement determined by reference to transferable securities (f)