Definitions
Article 2
1. For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply: (a) ‘basic local government unit’ means an administrative entity as listed in Annex I which, in accordance with the laws of the relevant Member State, contains one or more bodies elected by direct universal suffrage and is empowered to administer, at the basic level of political and administrative organisation, certain local affairs under its own responsibility; (b) ‘municipal elections’ means elections by direct universal suffrage to appoint the members of the representative council and, where appropriate, under the laws of the relevant Member State, the head and members of the executive of a basic local government unit; (c) ‘Member State of residence’ means the Member State in which a Union citizen resides but of which the Union citizen is not a national; (d) ‘home Member State’ means the Member State of which a Union citizen is a national; (e) ‘electoral roll’ means the official register of all voters entitled to vote in a given basic local government unit or in one of its subdivisions, drawn up and kept up to date by the competent authority under the electoral law of the Member State of residence, or the population register if it indicates eligibility to vote; (f) ‘reference date’ means the day or the days on which Union citizens have to satisfy, under the law of the Member State of residence, the requirements for voting or for standing as a candidate in that Member State; (g) ‘formal declaration’ means a declaration by the person concerned, inaccuracy in which makes that person liable to penalties, in accordance with the applicable national law. 2. A Member State shall notify the Commission if any basic local government unit referred to in Annex I is, by virtue of a change in its domestic law, replaced by another unit having the functions referred to in paragraph 1, point (a), of this Article or if, by virtue of such a change, any such unit is abolished or further such units are created. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 concerning the amendment of Annex I on the basis of the notifications received pursuant to the first subparagraph of this paragraph.