‘Fraud’: any intentional act or omission affecting the Union’s financial interests relating to the use or presentation of false, incorrect or incomplete statements or documents or to non- disclosure of information in violation of a specific obligation; 

‘Implementation of the FWC’ : the purchase of services envisaged in the FWC through the signature and performance of specific contracts ; 

‘Interface control document’ : the guideline document which lays down the technical specifications, message standards, security standards, checks of syntax and semantics, etc. to facilitate machine-to-machine connection. This document is updated on a regular basis; 

‘Irregularity’ : any infringement of a provision of Union law resulting from an act or omission by an economic operator, which has, or would have, the effect of prejudicing the Union’s budget. 

‘Notification’ (or ‘notify’): form of communication between the parties made in writing including by electronic means; 

‘Order form’ : a simplified form of specific contract by which the contracting authority orders services under this FWC; 

‘Performance of a specific contract’ : the execution of tasks and delivery of the purchased services by the contractor to the contracting authority; 

‘Personnel’ : persons employed directly or indirectly or contracted by the contractor to implement the FWC; 

‘Pre-existing material’ : any material, document, technology or know-how which exists prior to the contractor using it for the production of a result  in the implementation of the FWC ; 

‘Pre-existing right’ : any industrial and intellectual property right on pre-existing material ; it may consist in a right of ownership, a licence right and/or right of use belonging to the contractor, the creator , the contracting authority as well as to any other third parties; 

‘Professional conflicting interest’ : a situation in which the contractor’s previous or ongoing professional activities affect its capacity to implement the FWC or to perform a specific contract to an appropriate quality standard. 

‘Related person’ : any person who has the power to represent the contractor or to take decisions on its behalf; 

‘Request for services’ : a document from the contracting authority requesting that the contractors in a multiple FWC provide a specific tender for services whose terms are not entirely defined under the FWC; 

‘Result’ : any intended outcome of the implementation of the FWC , whatever its form or nature, which is delivered and finally or partially approved by the contracting authority. A result may be further defined in this FWC as a deliverable. A result may, in addition to materials produced by the contractor or at its request, also include pre-existing materials ; 

