Directive 2014/45/EU

means a procedure whereby a Member State certifies that a vehicle satisfies the relevant administrative provisions and technical requirements referred to in Directive 2002/24/EC, Directive 2003/37/EC and Directive 2007/46/EC;

means an authority or public body entrusted by a Member State with responsibility for managing the system of roadworthiness testing, including, where appropriate, the carrying-out of roadworthiness tests;

means technical defects and other instances of non-compliance found during a roadworthiness test;

means the legal or natural person in whose name the vehicle is registered;

means a person authorised by a Member State or by its competent authority to carry out roadworthiness tests in a testing centre or, where appropriate, on behalf of a competent authority;

means any power-driven vehicle on wheels which is moved by its own means with a maximum design speed exceeding 25 km/h;

means a road that is of general public utility, such as a local, regional or national road, highway, expressway or motorway.

means a roadworthiness test report issued by the competent authority or a testing centre containing the result of the roadworthiness test;

means an inspection in accordance with Annex I designed to ensure that a vehicle is safe to be used on public roads and that it complies with required and mandatory safety and environmental characteristics;

means any trailer designed to be coupled to a motor vehicle in such a way that part of it rests on the motor vehicle and a substantial part of its mass and the mass of its load is borne by the motor vehicle;

means an island with fewer than 5000 inhabitants which is not linked to the other parts of territory by road bridges or road tunnels;

means a predefined area with a population density of fewer than five persons per square kilometre;

means a body or bodies set up by a Member State, responsible for the supervision of testing centres.

means a public or private body or establishment authorised by a Member State to carry out roadworthiness tests;

means any non-self propelled vehicle on wheels which is designed and constructed to be towed by a motor vehicle;

means any power-driven vehicle on two wheels, with or without a sidecar, and any tricycle or quadricycle;

means any not rail-borne motor vehicle or its trailer;

means any vehicle which is considered to be historical by the Member State of registration or one of its appointed authorising bodies and which fulfils all the following conditions:

means a vehicle which is registered or put into service in a Member State;