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For the purpose of this Protocol:
a) the ``Convention" refers to the Convention for the Establishment of a European Organization for Nuclear Research and the Financial Protocol annexed thereto, signed on 1st July 1953, entered into force on 29 September 1954 and amended on 17 January 1971;
b) the ``Organization" refers to the European Organization for Nuclear Research;
c) ``official activities" refers to the activities of the Organization set out in the Convention, in particular its Article II, including its activities of an administrative nature;
d) ``officials" refers to the ``members of personnel" as defined in the Staff Rules and Regulations of the Organization;
e) ``Co-operation Agreement" refers to a bilateral agreement, concluded between the Organization and a non-Member State or a scientific institute established in that State, defining the conditions governing its participation in the activities of the Organization;
f) ``Association Agreement" refers to a bilateral agreement, concluded between the Organization and a State ineligible to become a Member State, establishing a close institutional partnership between that State and the Organization in order to allow it to be engaged more deeply in the activities of the Organization.