Doppelbesteuerung

Chapter II. DEFINITIONS

Art. 3 General Definitions

(1) For the purposes of this Convention, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. The term „person“ includes an individual, a company and any other body of persons;

2. The term „company“ means any body corporate or any entity that is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes;

3. The terms „enterprise of a Contracting State“ and „enterprise of the other Contracting State“ mean respectively an enterprise carried on by a resident of a Contracting State and an enterprise carried on by a resident of the other Contracting State;

4. The term „international traffic“ means any transport by a ship or aircraft, except when the ship or aircraft is operated solely between places in a Contracting State and the enterprise that operates the ship or aircraft is not an enterprise of that State;

5. The term „competent authority“ means:

   1. (In State A): ………

   2. (In State B): ………

6. The term „national“ means:

   1. any individual possessing the nationality of a Contracting State

   2. any legal person, partnership or association deriving its status as such from the laws in force in a Contracting State.

(2) As regards the application of the Convention at any time by a Contracting State,...