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) ‘participating competent authority’ means a competent authority that uses the ESCB services for the purpose of cooperating with the ESCB and with other competent authorities, in order to carry out its tasks within the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), established pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013; (4) ‘cooperating authority’ means a public authority, other than a central bank within the ESCB or a competent authority, with which the ESCB or the SSM cooperates in carrying out the tasks of the ESCB or of the ECB under Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013; (5) ‘ESCB services’ means any one or more of the electronic applications, systems, platforms, databases and services listed in Annex I; (6) ‘providing central bank’ means a central bank developing, running and maintaining an ESCB service; (7) ‘System Owner Committee’ means an ESCB Committee steering an ESCB service.