1449. (1) In this Part—

"consolidated payment report" has the meaning assigned to it by section 1451;

"entity payment report" has the meaning assigned to it by section 1450;

"equivalent reporting requirements" means third country reporting requirements assessed as equivalent to the requirements of Chapter 10 of the Accounting Directive in accordance with Article 46 of that Directive;

"logging undertaking" means an undertaking which undertakes in primary forests the activity referred to in Section A, Division 02, Group 02.2 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006⁴ establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 as set out in Table 1 of Schedule 18; and "logging company" shall be read accordingly;

"mining or quarrying undertaking" means an undertaking which performs any activity involving the exploration, prospection, discovery, development, and extraction of minerals, oil, natural gas deposits or other materials, within the activities listed in Section B, Divisions 05 to 08 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006⁵ establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 as set out in Table 2 of Schedule 18; and "mining or quarrying company" shall be read accordingly;

"payment" means an amount paid, whether in money or in kind, for relevant activities, where the payment includes any of the following:

(a) production entitlements;

(b) taxes levied on the income, production or profits of companies, excluding taxes levied on consumption such as value added taxes, personal income taxes or sales taxes;

(c) royalties;

(d) dividends, other than dividends paid by an undertaking to a government as an ordinary shareholder of that undertaking, where—

(i) the dividend is paid to the government on the same terms as to other ordinary shareholders, and

(ii) the dividend is not paid in lieu of production entitlements or royalties;

(e) signature, discovery and production bonuses;

(f) licence fees, rental fees, entry fees and other considerations for licences or concessions;

(g) payments for infrastructure improvements;

"primary forest" has the same meaning as it has in Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009⁶ on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC;

"project" means operational activities that—

(a) are governed by—

(i) a single contract, licence, lease, concession or similar legal agreement, or

(ii) multiple contracts, licences, leases, concessions or similar legal agreements that are substantially interconnected,

and

(b) form the basis for payment liabilities with a government;

"relevant undertaking" means an undertaking within the meaning of "ineligible entity"; and "relevant company" shall be read accordingly;

"relevant activities" means—

(a) the activity specified in Table 1 of Schedule 18 in primary forests, or

(b) any activity involving the exploration, prospection, discovery, development, and extraction of minerals, oil, natural gas deposits or other materials, within the economic activities specified in Table 2 of Schedule 18;

"substantially interconnected" means forming a set of operationally and geographically integrated contracts, licences, leases or concessions or related agreements with substantially similar terms that are signed with a government, giving rise to payment liabilities.

(2) A word or expression that is used in this Part and is also used in Chapter 10 of the Accounting Directive has, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning in this Part as it has in Chapter 10 of the Accounting Directive.]