Directive 2014/68/EU

means accreditation as defined in point 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;

means several pieces of pressure equipment assembled by a manufacturer to constitute an integrated and functional whole;

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;

means the process demonstrating whether the essential safety requirements of this Directive relating to pressure equipment or assemblies have been fulfilled;

means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;

means crisis-relevant goods as defined in Article 3, point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes pressure equipment or assemblies available on the market;

means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;

means a technical document defining the characteristics of materials intended for repeated use in the manufacture of pressure equipment which are not covered by any harmonised standard;

means gases, liquids and vapours in pure phase as well as mixtures thereof;

means harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;

means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places pressure equipment or assemblies from a third country on the Union market;

means internal market emergency mode as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747.

means any supply of pressure equipment or assemblies for distribution or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;

means any natural or legal person who manufactures pressure equipment or an assembly or has such equipment or assembly designed or manufactured, and markets that pressure equipment or assembly under his name or trademark or uses it for his own purposes;

means the maximum pressure for which the equipment is designed, as specified by the manufacturer, and defined at a location specified by him, being either the connection of protective and/or limiting devices, or the top of equipment or, if not appropriate, any point specified;

means the maximum/minimum temperatures for which the equipment is designed, as specified by the manufacturer;

means national accreditation body as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;

means a numerical designation of size which is common to all components in a piping system other than components indicated by outside diameters or by thread size;

means joints which cannot be disconnected except by destructive methods;

means piping components intended for the transport of fluids, when connected together for integration into a pressure system;

means the first making available of pressure equipment or assemblies on the Union market;

means pressure relative to atmospheric pressure, i.e. gauge pressure.

means devices with an operational function and having pressure-bearing housings;

means vessels, piping, safety accessories and pressure accessories, including, where applicable, elements attached to pressurised parts, such as flanges, nozzles, couplings, supports, lifting lugs;

means the first use of pressure equipment or an assembly by its user;

means any measure aimed at achieving the return of pressure equipment or assemblies that have already been made available to consumers or other users;

means devices designed to protect pressure equipment against the allowable limits being exceeded, including devices for direct pressure limitation, such as safety valves, bursting disc safety devices, buckling rods, controlled safety pressure relief systems (CSPRS), and limiting devices, which either activate the means for correction or provide for shutdown or shutdown and lockout, such as pressure switches or temperature switches or fluid level switches and safety related measurement control and regulation (SRMCR) devices;

means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by pressure equipment or assemblies;

means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;

means a housing designed and built to contain fluids under pressure including its direct attachments up to the coupling point connecting it to other equipment;

means the internal volume of a chamber, including the volume of nozzles to the first connection or weld and excluding the volume of permanent internal parts;

means any measure aimed at preventing pressure equipment or assemblies in the supply chain from being made available on the market;