- accreditation
means accreditation as defined in point 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
- 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 radio equipment have been fulfilled;
- conformity assessment body
means a body that performs conformity assessment activities;
- 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 radio equipment available on the market;
- economic operators
means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;
- electromagnetic disturbance
means electromagnetic disturbance as defined in point 5 of Article 3(1) of Directive 2014/30/EU;
- harmful interference
means harmful interference as defined in point (r) of Article 2 of Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- harmonised standard
means harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;
- importer
means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places radio equipment 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 radio equipment 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 radio equipment or has radio equipment designed or manufactured, and markets that equipment 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 radio equipment on the Union market;
- putting into service
means the first use of radio equipment in the Union by its end-user;
- radio communication
means communication by means of radio waves;
- radio equipment
means an electrical or electronic product, which intentionally emits and/or receives radio waves for the purpose of radio communication and/or radiodetermination, or an electrical or electronic product which must be completed with an accessory, such as antenna, so as to intentionally emit and/or receive radio waves for the purpose of radio communication and/or radiodetermination;
- radio equipment class
means a class identifying particular categories of radio equipment which, under this Directive, are considered similar and those radio interfaces for which the radio equipment is designed;
- radio interface
means the specification of the regulated use of radio spectrum;
- radio waves
means electromagnetic waves of frequencies lower than 3000 GHz, propagated in space without artificial guide;
- radiodetermination
means the determination of the position, velocity and/or other characteristics of an object, or the obtaining of information relating to those parameters, by means of the propagation properties of radio waves;
- recall
means any measure aimed at achieving the return of radio equipment that has already been made available to the end-user;
- technical specification
means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by radio equipment;
- Union harmonisation legislation
means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;
- withdrawal
means any measure aimed at preventing radio equipment in the supply chain from being made available on the market;