(1) For the purposes of this Agreement, unless the context
otherwise requires:
a) the terms “a Contracting State” and “the other Contracting
State” mean the Federal Republic of Germany or Ireland, as
the context requires;
b) the term “Ireland” includes any area outside the territorial
waters of Ireland which has been or may hereafter be
designated, under the laws of Ireland concerning the
Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf, as an
area within which Ireland may exercise such sovereign rights
and jurisdiction as are in conformity with international law;
c) the term “Germany” means the Federal Republic of Germany
and, when used in a geographical sense, means the territory
of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as the area of
the sea-bed, its subsoil and the superjacent water column
adjacent to the territorial sea, wherein the Federal Republic
of Germany exercises sovereign rights and jurisdiction in
conformity with international law and its national legislation
for the purpose of exploring, exploiting, conserving and
managing the living and non-living natural resources;
d) the term “person” includes an individual, a company and any
other body of persons;
e) the term “company” means any body corporate or any
entity that is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes;
f) the term “enterprise” applies to the carrying on of any
business;
g) the term “business” includes the performance of professional
services and of other activities of an independent character;
h) 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 and an
enterprise carried on by a resident of the other Contracting
State;
i) the term “international traffic” means any transport by a ship
or aircraft operated by an enterprise that 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;
j) the term “national”, in relation to a Contracting State, means:
i) in the case of Ireland:
any individual possessing citizenship of Ireland; and any
legal person, partnership, or association deriving its
status as such from the laws in force in Ireland;
ii) in the case of Germany:
any German within the meaning of the Basic Law for the
Federal Republic of Germany and any legal person,
partnership and association deriving its status as such
from the laws in force in Germany;
k) the term “competent authority” means:
i) in the case of Ireland, the Revenue Commissioners or
their authorised representative;
ii) in the case of Germany, the Federal Ministry of Finance
or the agency to which it has delegated its powers.
(2) As regards the application of this Agreement 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 Agreement 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.
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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration)
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de-ireland-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration) | signed 2011-03-30 | published 2011-11-07 | Signed: 2011-03-30 | Gazette publication: 2011-11-07
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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration)
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