- 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 or her behalf in relation to specified tasks;
- conformity assessment
means the process demonstrating whether the requirements of this Regulation relating to an EU fertilising product have been fulfilled;
- conformity assessment body
means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including testing, certification and inspection;
- distributor
means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes an EU fertilising product available on the market;
- economic operators
means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;
- fertilising product
means a substance, mixture, micro- organism or any other material, applied or intended to be applied on plants or their rhizosphere or on mushrooms or their mycosphere, or intended to constitute the rhizosphere or mycosphere, either on its own or mixed with another material, for the purpose of providing the plants or mushrooms with nutrient or improving their nutrition efficiency;
- harmonised standard
means harmonised standard as defined in point 1(c) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;
- importer
means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places an EU fertilising product from a third country on the Union market;
- liquid form
means a suspension or a solution, where a suspension is a two-phase dispersion in which solid particles are maintained in suspension in the liquid phase, and a solution is a liquid that is free of solid particles, or a gel and includes pastes;
- making available on the market
means any supply of an EU fertilising product 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 EU fertilising product or has an EU fertilising product designed or manufactured, and markets that EU fertilising product under his or her name or trademark;
- micro-organism
means a micro-organism as defined in point 15 of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009;
- mixture
means a mixture as defined in point 2 of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006;
- 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 an EU fertilising product on the Union market;
- plant biostimulant
means a product stimulating plant nutrition processes independently of the product’s nutrient content with the sole aim of improving one or more of the following characteristics of the plant or the plant rhizosphere:
- recall
means any measure aimed at achieving the return of an EU fertilising product that has already been made available to the end-user;
- solid form
means form characterised by structural rigidity and resistance to changes of shape or volume and in which the atoms are tightly bound to each other, either in a regular geometric lattice (crystalline solids) or in an irregular manner (an amorphous solid);
- substance
means a substance as defined in point 1 of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006;
- technical specification
means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by an EU fertilising product, by its production process or by the methods for its sampling and analysis;
- Union harmonisation legislation
means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;
- withdrawal
means any measure aimed at preventing an EU fertilising product in the supply chain from being made available on the market;