Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Kimberley Process" means the forum in which the participants have designed an international certification scheme for rough diamonds; (b) "Kimberley Process certification scheme" (hereinafter "KP certification scheme") means the international certification scheme negotiated by the Kimberley Process as set out in Annex I; (c) "Participants" means participants in the KP certification scheme listed in Annex II; (d) "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; (e) "competent authority" means the authority designated by a participant to issue, validate or verify certificates; (f) "Community authority" means a competent authority designated by a Member State and listed in Annex III; (g) "Community certificate" means a certificate corresponding to the specimen in Annex IV and issued by a Community authority; (h) "conflict diamonds" means rough diamonds as defined under the KP Certification Scheme; (i) "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"); (j) "imports" means the physical entering or bringing into any part of the geographical territory of a participant; (k) "export" means the physical leaving or taking out of any part of the geographical territory of a participant; (l) "shipment" means one or more parcels; (m) "parcel" means one or more diamonds that are packed together; (n) "parcel of mixed origin" means a parcel that contains rough diamonds from two or more countries of origin; (o) "Community territory" means the territories of the Member States to which the Treaty is applicable, under the conditions laid down in that Treaty; (p) "Certified stock" means a stock of rough diamonds to which this Regulation applies, and whose location, volume and value, and changes therein, have been submitted to effective supervision of a Member State; (q) "Customs transit" means transit as provided for by Articles 91 to 97 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code(3). CHAPTER II IMPORT REGIME