Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 305/2013

means a most appropriate PSAP defined beforehand by the authorities to first receive and handle the eCalls;

means a person in the eCall PSAP receiving and/or handling the emergency calls;

means the establishment of a mobile wireless communications session across a public wireless communications network and the transmission of a minimum set of data from a vehicle to an eCall PSAP and the establishment of an audio channel between the vehicle and the same eCall PSAP;

means a facility used by one or more emergency services to handle contextual information derived from emergency calls or MSD;

means a service, recognised as such by the Member State, that provides immediate and rapid assistance in situations where there is, in particular, a direct risk to life or limb, to individual or public health or safety, to private or public property, or to the environment, in accordance with national legislation;

means equipment within the vehicle that provides or has access to the in-vehicle data required to perform the eCall transaction via a public mobile wireless communications network;

(MSD) means the contextual information defined by the standard ‘Intelligent transport systems – Esafety – ECall minimum set of data (MSD)’ (EN 15722:2020) which is sent to the eCall PSAP;

means wireless communications network with homogeneous handover between network access points;

means most appropriate PSAP as defined in point 37 of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972;

means mobile electronic communications network available to the public in accordance with Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

(PSAP) means public safety answering point or PSAP as defined in point 36 of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972;

means a representation of the transmitted minimum set of data before being presented in an intelligible way to the eCall PSAP operator.

means a public or private organisation recognised by national authorities, that has a role in the handling of incidents related to an eCall (e.g. road operator, assistance service);

means the alphanumeric code assigned to a vehicle by the manufacturer in order to ensure proper identification of every vehicle, as described in ISO standard 3779;