Definitions
Article 1
For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘competent authority’ means either a national competent authority or the European Central Bank (ECB); (2) ‘national competent authority’ (NCA) means a national competent authority as defined in point (2) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 and, for the purposes of this Decision, also includes, in respect of the supervisory tasks assigned to them, national central banks that have been assigned certain supervisory tasks under national law and are not designated as NCAs; (3) ‘ESCB services’ means any one or more of the electronic applications, systems, platforms, databases and services listed in Annexes I and II; (4) ‘providing central bank’ means a central bank developing, running and maintaining an ESCB service.