Definitions
Article 3
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (a) ‘EU CSW-CERTEX’ is the European Union Customs Single Window Certificates Exchange System governed by Regulation (EU) 2022/2399; (b) ‘ELAN’ means Electronic system for Agricultural Non-customs formalities, which is the electronic Union non-customs system used for the management of documents listed in Article 4; (c) ‘licences’ means import and export licences as defined in Article 1, point (a), of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1237; (d) ‘TRACES’ means the system referred to in Article 133(4) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 13 ) ; (e) ‘national issuing authorities’ means the authorities of the Member States competent for issuing the documents listed in Article 4, point (a); (f) ‘third country issuing authorities’ means the authorities of countries outside the Union that are competent to issue the documents listed in Article 4, points (b), (c) and (d); (g) ‘customs authorities’ means the customs administrations of the Member States as defined in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EU) 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 14 ) .