Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘hosting service provider’ means a provider of services as defined in point (b) of Article 1 of Directive (EU) 2015/1535 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 14 ) , consisting of the storage of information provided by and at the request of a content provider; (2) ‘content provider’ means a user that has provided information that is, or that has been, stored and disseminated to the public by a hosting service provider; (3) ‘dissemination to the public’ means the making available of information, at the request of a content provider, to a potentially unlimited number of persons; (4) ‘offering services in the Union’ means enabling natural or legal persons in one or more Member States to use the services of a hosting service provider which has a substantial connection to that Member State or those Member States; (5) ‘substantial connection’ means the connection of a hosting service provider with one or more Member States resulting either from its establishment in the Union or from specific factual criteria, such as: (a) having a significant number of users of its services in one or more Member States; or (b) the targeting of its activities to one or more Member States; (6) ‘terrorist offences’ means offences as defined in Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2017/541; (7) ‘terrorist content’ means one or more of the following types of material, namely material that: (a) incites the commission of one of the offences referred to in points (a) to (i) of Article 3(1) of Directive (EU) 2017/541, where such material, directly or indirectly, such as by the glorification of terrorist acts, advocates the commission of terrorist offences, thereby causing a danger that one or more such offences may be committed; (b) solicits a person or a group of persons to commit or contribute to the commission of one of the offences referred to in points (a) to (i) of Article 3(1) of Directive (EU) 2017/541; (c) solicits a person or a group of persons to participate in the activities of a terrorist group, within the meaning of point (b) of Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2017/541; (d) provides instruction on the making or use of explosives, firearms or other weapons or noxious or hazardous substances, or on other specific methods or techniques for the purpose of committing or contributing to the commission of one of the terrorist offences referred to in points (a) to (i) of Article 3(1) of Directive (EU) 2017/541; (e) constitutes a threat to commit one of the offences referred to in points (a) to (i) of Article 3(1) of Directive (EU) 2017/541; (8) ‘terms and conditions’ means all terms, conditions and clauses, irrespective of their name or form, which govern the contractual relationship between a hosting service provider and its users; (9) ‘main establishment’ means the head office or registered office of the hosting service provider within which the principal financial functions and operational control are exercised.