Article 4 — Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) participating Member State means a Member State participating in the EU Talent Pool; (2) jobseeker from a third country means a natural person residing outside the Union who, under the national law or practice of the relevant participating Member State, has reached the age of majority and who is not a citizen of the Union within the meaning of Article 20(1) TFEU and who is seeking employment in the Union; (3) registered jobseeker from a third country means a jobseeker from a third country who has registered on the IT Platform in accordance with Article 11; (4) participating employer means an employer who is lawfully established in a participating Member State and whose job vacancies are available on the IT Platform as transmitted by the National Contact Point of the Member State where the employer is established; (5) other participating entity means a temporary work agency, private employment agency or a labour market intermediary whose job vacancies are available on the IT Platform as transmitted by the National Contact Point of the Member State where the other participating entity is lawfully established; (6) profile means the information provided by a jobseeker from a third country in a standard data format for the purpose of seeking employment through the IT Platform; (7) single coordinated channel means the IT service for the transmission of job vacancies from the participating Member States to the IT Platform in accordance with a uniform system and using the necessary technical infrastructure; (8) job vacancy means a paid position which would allow the jobseeker from a third country who has been selected to enter into an employment relationship in the participating Member State where the participating employer or the other participating entity is established and where the jobseeker from a third country will habitually work.