- accreditation
means accreditation as defined in point 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
- apparatus
means any finished appliance or combination thereof made available on the market as a single functional unit, intended for the end-user and liable to generate electromagnetic disturbance, or the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance;
- authorised representative
means any natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on his behalf in relation to specified tasks;
- conformity assessment
means the process demonstrating whether the essential requirements of this Directive relating to an apparatus have been fulfilled;
- conformity assessment body
means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;
- crisis-relevant goods
means crisis-relevant goods as defined in Article 3, point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- distributor
means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes apparatus available on the market;
- economic operators
means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;
- electromagnetic compatibility
means the ability of equipment to function satisfactorily in its electromagnetic environment without introducing intolerable electromagnetic disturbances to other equipment in that environment;
- electromagnetic disturbance
means any electromagnetic phenomenon which may degrade the performance of equipment;
- electromagnetic environment
means all electromagnetic phenomena observable in a given location;
- equipment
means any apparatus or fixed installation;
- fixed installation
means a particular combination of several types of apparatus and, where applicable, other devices, which are assembled, installed and intended to be used permanently at a predefined location;
- harmonised standard
means harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;
- immunity
means the ability of equipment to perform as intended without degradation in the presence of an electromagnetic disturbance;
- importer
means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places apparatus from a third country on the Union market;
- internal market emergency mode
means internal market emergency mode as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747.
- making available on the market
means any supply of apparatus for distribution, consumption or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
- manufacturer
means any natural or legal person who manufactures apparatus or has apparatus designed or manufactured, and markets that apparatus under his name or trade mark;
- national accreditation body
means national accreditation body as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
- placing on the market
means the first making available of apparatus on the Union market;
- recall
means any measure aimed at achieving the return of apparatus that has already been made available to the end-user;
- safety purposes
means the purposes of safeguarding human life or property;
- technical specification
means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by the equipment;
- Union harmonisation legislation
means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;
- withdrawal
means any measure aimed at preventing apparatus in the supply chain from being made available on the market;