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(8) "beneficiary" means a Member State, an international organisation, a public or private
undertaking or body that has been selected to receive Union financial aid under this
Regulation and in accordance with the arrangements established in the relevant work
programme referred to in Article 17.
(9) "implementing body" means a public or private undertaking or body designated by a
beneficiary, where the latter is a Member State or an international organisation, to implement
the action. Such designation shall be decided upon by the beneficiary under its own
responsibility and, if it requires the award of a procurement contract, in compliance with the
applicable public procurement rules;
(10) "core network'" means the transport infrastructure identified according to Chapter III of
Regulation (EU) No XXXX/2012 [TEN-T Guidelines];
(11) "core network corridors" means an instrument to facilitate the coordinated implementation of
the core network as provided for in Chapter IV of Regulation (EU) No XXXX/2012 [TEN-T
Guidelines] [and listed in Part I of the Annex to this Regulation];
(12) "bottleneck" in the transport sector means a physical or technical barrier that leads to a system
break affecting the continuity and disruption of transport capacity of long-distance and cross-
border flows. Such a barrier can be absorbed by creating new or substantially modernising
existing infrastructure in order to increase its capacity such as bridges, locks, groynes, bottom
sills or tunnels that address problems as for example gradients, curve radii, gauge, fairway
depth or by upgrading intermediate lower classified sections of infrastructure to the level of
the rest of the network;
(13) "priority" means any of the energy infrastructure priorities 1 to 8 and 10 to 12 as designated
in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No XXXX/2012 [Guidelines for trans-European energy
infrastructure];
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