‘participation in the capital with rights or representation on the board of directors, supervisory board or any other governing body of a system vendor’ means an investment to which are attached rights or representation on the board of directors, supervisory board or any other governing body of a system vendor, and conferring the possibility of exercising, alone or jointly with others, decisive influence on the running of the business of the system vendor;

1. Without prejudice to international agreements to which the Community or the Member States are parties, where the treatment of Community air carriers by a system vendor operating in a third country is not equivalent to the treatment of the third country participating carriers with regard to any matter contained in this Regulation, the Commission may require all system vendors operating in the Community to treat air carriers of that third country in a manner that is equivalent to the treatment of Community air carriers in that third country.

‘parent carrier’ means any air carrier or rail-transport operator which directly or indirectly, alone or jointly with others, controls, or participates in the capital with rights or representation on the board of directors, supervisory board or any other governing body of, a system vendor, as well as any air carrier or rail-transport operator which it controls;

Provisions on the supply by a system vendor of information from its CRS relating to confidentiality and data protection as regards access of parent carriers to the information supplied by carriers or generated for their use.

Capacity of the system vendor to act in its own name and as a separate entity from the parent carrier.

Obligation on the system vendor to refrain from discrimination in loading and/or processing data provided by participating carriers and to separate its distribution facilities in a clear and verifiable manner from the private inventory of any carrier.