For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
‘initial margin’ means the collateral collected by a counterparty to cover its current and potential future exposure in the interval between the last collection of margin and the liquidation of positions or hedging of market risk following a default of the other counterparty;
‘variation margin’ means the collateral collected by a counterparty to reflect the results of the daily marking-to-market or marking-to-model of outstanding contracts referred to in Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012;
‘netting set’ means a set of non-centrally cleared over-the-counter (‘OTC’) derivative contracts between two counterparties that is subject to a legally enforceable bilateral netting agreement.