- authorised representative
means any natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on that manufacturer’s behalf in relation to specified tasks;
- component
means any item, whether tangible or intangible, raw material or related service, that is integrated into, or inter-connected with, a product;
- data
means data as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- digital manufacturing file
means a digital version of, or digital template for, a movable which contains the functional information necessary to produce a tangible item by enabling the automated control of machinery or tools;
- distributor
means any natural or legal person in the supply chain who makes a product available on the market, other than the manufacturer or importer of that product;
- economic operator
means a manufacturer of a product or component, a provider of a related service, an authorised representative, an importer, a fulfilment service provider or a distributor;
- fulfilment service provider
means any natural or legal person offering, in the course of a commercial activity, at least two of the following services: warehousing, packaging, addressing and dispatching of a product, without having ownership of that product, excluding postal services as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, parcel delivery services as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2018/644 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and any other postal services or freight transport services;
- importer
means any natural or legal person who places a product from a third country on the Union market;
- making available on the market
means any supply of a product 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:
- online platform
means online platform as defined in Article 3, point (i), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065;
- placing on the market
means the first making available of a product on the Union market;
- product
means all movables, even if integrated into, or inter-connected with, another movable or an immovable;
- putting into service
means the first use of a product in the Union in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge, in circumstances in which that product has not been placed on the market prior to its first use;
- related service
means a digital service that is integrated into, or inter-connected with, a product in such a way that its absence would prevent the product from performing one or more of its functions;
- substantial modification
means a modification of a product after it has been placed on the market or put into service:
- trade secret
means trade secret as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2016/943;