For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
‘legal unit’, ‘enterprise’, ‘local unit’ and ‘enterprise group’ shall be as defined in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 696/93;
‘national authorities’ shall be as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 322/97;
‘statistical purposes’ shall be as described in Article 2(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1588/90;
‘multinational enterprise group’ shall mean an enterprise group which has at least two enterprises or legal units located in different countries;
‘truncated enterprise group’ shall mean the enterprises and the legal units of a multinational enterprise group, which are resident in the same country. It may comprise only one unit, if the other units are non-resident. An enterprise may be the truncated enterprise group or part thereof.