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Unless otherwise indicated by the context in which they are used, the terms set out below shall have the following meanings for the purposes of this Convention:
1. ``State Party" means a State which has agreed to be bound by this Convention.
2. ``Assisting State Party" means a State Party to this Convention providing telecommunication assistance pursuant hereto.
3. ``Requesting State Party" means a State Party to this Convention requesting telecommunication assistance pursuant hereto.
4. ``This Convention" means the Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations.
5. ``The depositary" means the depositary for this Convention, as set forth in Article 16.
6. ``Disaster" means a serious disruption of the functioning of society, posing a significant, widespread threat to human life, health, property or the environment, whether caused by accident, nature or human activity, and whether developing suddenly or as the result of complex, long-term processes.
7. ``Disaster mitigation" means measures designed to prevent, predict, prepare for, respond to, monitor and/or mitigate the impact of, disasters.
8. ``Health hazard" means a sudden outbreak of infectious disease, such as an epidemic or pandemic, or other event posing a significant threat to human life or health, which has the potential for triggering a disaster.
9. ``Natural hazard" means an event or process, such as an earthquake, fire, flood, wind, landslide, avalanche, cyclone, tsunami, insect infestation, drought or volcanic eruption, which has the potential for triggering a disaster.
10. ``Non-governmental organization" means any organization, including private and corporate entities, other than a State or governmental or intergovernmental organization, concerned with disaster mitigation and relief and/or the provision of telecommunication resources for disaster mitigation and relief.
11. ``Non-State entity" means any entity, other than a State, including non-governmental organizations and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, concerned with disaster mitigation and relief and/or the provision of telecommunication resources for disaster mitigation and relief.
12. ``Relief operations" means those activities designed to reduce loss of life, human suffering and damage to property and/or the environment caused by a disaster.
13. ``Telecommunication assistance" means the provision of telecommunication resources or other resources or support intended to facilitate the use of telecommunication resources.
14. ``Telecommunication resources" means personnel, equipment, materials, information, training, radio-frequency spectrum, network or transmission capacity or other resources necessary to telecommunications.
15. ``Telecommunications" means any transmission, emission, or reception of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence of any nature, by wire, radio, optical fibre or other electromagnetic system.