Article 3 General Definitions

(1) For the purposes of this Convention, unless the context otherwise requires: a) the term “Romania” means the state territory of Romania, including its territorial sea and air space over the territory and the territorial sea over which Romania exercises sovereignty, as well as the contiguous zone and the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone over which Romania exercises, in accordance with its legislation and with the rules and prin- ciples of international law, sovereign rights and jurisdiction; b) the term “Federal Republic of Germany” means the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as the area of the seabed, its subsoil and the superjacent water column adja- cent to the territorial sea, insofar as the Federal Republic of Germany exercises there sovereign rights and jurisdiction in conformity with international law and its national legislation for the purpose of exploring, exploiting, conserving and man- aging the living and non-living natural resources; c) the terms “a Contracting State” and “the other Contracting State” mean Romania or the Federal Republic of Germany, as the context requires; d) the term “person” means an individual, a company and any body of persons; e) the term “company” means any body corporate or any entity which is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes; f) the terms “enterprise of a Contracting State” and “enterprise of the other Contracting State” mean respectively an enter- prise carried on by a resident of a Contracting State or an enterprise carried on by a resident of the other Contracting State; g) the term “international traffic” means any transport by a ship or aircraft operated by an enterprise which has its place of effective management in a Contracting State, except when the ship or aircraft is operated solely between places in the other Contracting State; h) the term “national” means: aa) in respect of Romania any individual possessing the citizenship of Romania and any legal person, body of persons and any other entity set up and deriving its status as such from the laws in force in Romania; bb) in respect of the Federal Republic of Germany any German within the meaning of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany and any legal person, part- nership and association deriving its status as such from the laws in force in the Federal Republic of Germany; i) the term “competent authority” means aa) in the case of Romania, the Ministry of Finance or its authorised representatives; bb) in the case of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Fed- eral Ministry of Finance or the agency to which it has del- egated its powers.

(2) As regards the application of the Convention at any time by a Contracting State any term not defined therein shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning that it has at that time under the law of that State for the purposes of the taxes to which the Convention applies, any meaning under the applicable tax laws of that State prevailing over a meaning given to the term under other laws of that State.