For the purposes of this Chapter:
(1) "company" means a limited liability company of a type listed in Annex II that carries out a cross-border conversion;
(2) "cross-border conversion" means an operation whereby a company, without being dissolved or wound up or going into liquidation, converts the legal form under which it is registered in a departure Member State into a legal form of the destination Member State, as listed in Annex II, and transfers at least its registered office to the destination Member State, while retaining its legal personality;
(3) "departure Member State" means a Member State in which a company is registered prior to a cross-border conversion;
(4) "destination Member State" means a Member State in which a converted company is registered as a result of a cross-border conversion;
(5) "converted company" means a company formed in a destination Member State as a result of a cross-border conversion.