- accreditation
means accreditation as defined in point 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
- appliance category
means the identification of gas families and/or gas groups that an appliance is designed to burn safely and at the desired performance level, as indicated by the appliance category marking;
- appliances
means appliances burning gaseous fuels used for cooking, refrigeration, air-conditioning, space heating, hot water production, lighting or washing, and also forced draught burners and heating bodies to be equipped with such burners;
- 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;
- burning
means a process in which gaseous fuel reacts with oxygen producing heat or light;
- conformity assessment
means the process demonstrating whether the essential requirements of this Regulation relating to an appliance or a fitting have been fulfilled;
- conformity assessment body
means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;
- cooking
means the art or practice of preparing or warming food for consumption with the use of heat and employing a wide range of methods;
- 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 an appliance or a fitting available on the market;
- economic operators
means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;
- energy efficiency
means the ratio of output of performance of an appliance to input of energy;
- fittings
means safety devices, controlling devices or regulating devices and sub-assemblies thereof, designed to be incorporated into an appliance or to be assembled to constitute an appliance;
- gas family
means a group of gaseous fuels with similar burning behaviour linked together by a range of Wobbe indices;
- gas group
means a specified range of Wobbe indices within that of the gas family concerned;
- gaseous fuel
means any fuel which is in a gaseous state at a temperature of 15 °C under an absolute pressure of 1 bar;
- harmonised standard
means a 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 an appliance or a fitting from a third country on the Union market;
- industrial premises
means any place where the main activity carried out is an industrial process that would be subject to specific national health and safety regulations;
- industrial process
means the extraction, growth, refining, processing, production, manufacture or preparation of materials, plants, livestock, animal products, food or other products with a view to their commercial use;
- 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 an appliance or a fitting for distribution 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 an appliance or a fitting or who has an appliance or a fitting designed or manufactured, and markets that appliance or fitting under his name or trademark or uses the appliance for his own purposes;
- national accreditation body
means a 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 an appliance or a fitting on the Union market;
- putting into service
means the first use of an appliance in the Union by its end-user;
- recall
means any measure aimed at achieving the return of an appliance that has already been made available to the end-user or of a fitting that has already been made available to an appliance manufacturer;
- technical specification
means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by an appliance or a fitting;
- Union harmonisation legislation
means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;
- washing
means the entire washing process, including drying and ironing;
- withdrawal
means any measure aimed at preventing an appliance or a fitting in the supply chain from being made available on the market;
- Wobbe index
means an indicator of the interchangeability of fuel gases used to compare the combustion energy output of different composition fuel gases in an appliance;