For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(1) "entity" means any natural or legal person: (a) that is required to submit the information referred to in Article 1(1), point (a), to a collection body; or (b) that submits information to a collection body on a voluntary basis pursuant to Article 1(1), point (b), in order for that information to be made accessible on ESAP;

(2) "collection body" means a Union body, office or agency or national body, authority or register designated as such pursuant to any of the Union legislative acts under Article 1(1), point (a), or designated as such by a Member State in accordance with Article 3(2);

(3) "data extractable format" means any open format as defined in Article 2, point (14), of Directive (EU) 2019/1024 that is widely used or required by law, that allows data extraction by a machine and that is human-readable;