Definitions
Article 1
For the purposes of this Decision: 1. ‘national competent authority’ (NCA) means a national competent authority designated by a participating Member State in accordance with Article 2(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013. This meaning is without prejudice to arrangements under national law that assign certain supervisory tasks to a national central bank (NCB) that is not designated as an NCA. With regard to such arrangements, a reference to an NCA in this Decision shall also refer to the NCB in respect of the supervisory tasks assigned to it by national law; 2. ‘competent authority’ means either an NCA or the ECB; 3. ‘ESCB and Eurosystem electronic applications, systems, platforms and services’, ‘certificate’ or ‘electronic certificate’, ‘ESCB-PKI certification authority’, ‘registration authority’, ‘user’, ‘Eurosystem central bank’, and ‘relying party’ have the meanings defined in Article 1 of Decision ECB/2013/1; 4. ‘SSM electronic applications, systems, platforms and services’ means electronic applications, systems, platforms and services that are used for the fulfilment of the ECB's and NCAs' responsibilities under Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013; 5. ‘ESCB/SSM certificate acceptance framework’ means the criteria established by the ESCB Information Technology Committee to identify the certification authorities, both internal and external to the ESCB, which can be trusted in relation to ESCB and Eurosystem electronic applications, systems, platforms and services and in relation to SSM electronic applications, systems, platforms and services.