In this Part -
"appropriate court", in relation to an external financial penalty order, means a court in the State that has jurisdiction to impose a financial penalty of the same amount as the sum mentioned in the external financial penalty order;
"certificate" means the certificate provided for in Article 4 of the 2005 Framework Decision, the standard form of which is provided for in the Annex to that Framework Decision;
"competent authority", in relation to a member state, means - (a) the issuing judicial authority in the member state, or (b) the authority in the member state that the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union has, in accordance with Article 2 of the 2005 Framework Decision, been informed is to be the competent authority in that member state;
"executing state", in relation to a financial penalty order, means the member state to which the order is transmitted for enforcement;
"external financial penalty order" means a financial penalty order that i
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