keyboard_tab REGIS - Reg. Intermediation Services 2019/1150 EN

(1)

‘business user’ means any private individual acting in a commercial or professional capacity who, or any legal person which, through online_intermediation_services offers goods or services to consumers for purposes relating to its trade, business, craft or profession;

(2)

‘online intermediation services’ means services which meet all of the following requirements:

(3)

‘provider of online_intermediation_services’ means any natural or legal person which provides, or which offers to provide, online_intermediation_services to business_users;

(4)

‘consumer’ means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside this person’s trade, business, craft or profession;

(5)

‘online search engine’ means a digital service that allows users to input queries in order to perform searches of, in principle, all websites, or all websites in a particular language, on the basis of a query on any subject in the form of a keyword, voice request, phrase or other input, and returns results in any format in which information related to the requested content can be found;

(6)

‘provider of online_search_engine’ means any natural or legal person which provides, or which offers to provide, online_search_engines to consumers;

(7)

‘corporate website user’ means any natural or legal person which uses an online interface, meaning any software, including a website or a part thereof and applications, including mobile applications, to offer goods or services to consumers for purposes relating to its trade, business, craft or profession;

(8)

‘ranking’ means the relative prominence given to the goods or services offered through online_intermediation_services, or the relevance given to search results by online_search_engines, as presented, organised or communicated by the providers of online_intermediation_services or by providers of online_search_engines, respectively, irrespective of the technological means used for such presentation, organisation or communication;

(9)

‘control’ means ownership of, or the ability to exercise decisive influence over, an undertaking, within the meaning of Article 3(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (13);

(10)

‘terms and conditions’ means all terms_and_conditions or specifications, irrespective of their name or form, which govern the contractual relationship between the provider of online_intermediation_services and its business_users and are unilaterally determined by the provider of online_intermediation_services, that unilateral determination being evaluated on the basis of an overall assessment, for which the relative size of the parties concerned, the fact that a negotiation took place, or that certain provisions thereof might have been subject to such a negotiation and determined together by the relevant provider and business_user is not, in itself, decisive;

(11)

‘ancillary goods and services’ means goods and services offered to the consumer prior to the completion of a transaction initiated on the online_intermediation_services in addition to and complementary to the primary good or service offered by the business_user through the online_intermediation_services;

(12)

‘mediation’ means any structured process as defined in point (a) of Article 3 of Directive 2008/52/EC;

(13)

‘durable medium’ means any instrument which enables business_users to store information addressed personally to them in a way accessible for future reference and for a period of time adequate for the purposes of the information and allows the unchanged reproduction of the information stored.