For the purposes of this Regulation:

1. "the ECB's statistical reporting requirements" shall mean the statistical information which reporting agents are required to provide and which is necessary for the tasks of the ESCB to be performed;

1a. "European statistics" shall mean statistics that are: (i) necessary to undertake the ESCB’s tasks as referred to in the Treaty; (ii) determined in the ESCB’s statistical work programme; and (iii) developed, produced and disseminated in conformity with the statistical principles referred to in Article 3a;

2. "reporting agents" shall mean the legal and natural persons and the entities and branches referred to in Article 2(3) which are subject to the ECB's statistical reporting requirements;

3. "participating Member State" shall mean a Member State which has adopted the single currency in accordance with the Treaty;