Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 (Cyber Resilience Act)

means a vulnerability for which there is reliable evidence that a malicious actor has exploited it in a system without permission of the system owner;

means a natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on its behalf in relation to specified tasks;

means software or hardware intended for integration into an electronic information system;

means the process of verifying whether the essential cybersecurity requirements set out in Annex I have been fulfilled;

means a conformity assessment body as defined in Article 2, point (13), of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;

means a natural person who acts for purposes which are outside that person’s trade, business, craft or profession;

means a cyber threat as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881;

means cybersecurity as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881;

means the potential for loss or disruption caused by an incident and is to be expressed as a combination of the magnitude of such loss or disruption and the likelihood of occurrence of the incident;

means a natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, that makes a product with digital elements available on the Union market without affecting its properties;

means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer, the distributor, or other natural or legal person who is subject to obligations in relation to the manufacture of products with digital elements or to the making available of products with digital elements on the market in accordance with this Regulation;

means a system, including electrical or electronic equipment, capable of processing, storing or transmitting digital data;

means any device that is connected to a network and serves as an entry point to that network;

means a European standard as defined in Article 2, point (1)(b), of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;

means a vulnerability that has the potential to be effectively used by an adversary under practical operational conditions;

means software the source code of which is openly shared and which is made available under a free and open-source licence which provides for all rights to make it freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable;

means a physical electronic information system, or parts thereof capable of processing, storing or transmitting digital data;

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

means a natural or legal person established in the Union who places on the market a product with digital elements that bears the name or trademark of a natural or legal person established outside the Union;

means an incident as defined in Article 6, point (6), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555;

means a connection to a device or network, which does not take place directly but rather as part of a larger system that is directly connectable to such device or network;

means the use for which a product with digital elements is intended by the manufacturer, including the specific context and conditions of use, as specified in the information supplied by the manufacturer in the instructions for use, promotional or sales materials and statements, as well as in the technical documentation;

means an international standard as defined in Article 2, point (1)(a), of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;

means a virtual representation of a data connection implemented through a software interface;

means the supply of a product with digital elements 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 a natural or legal person who develops or manufactures products with digital elements or has products with digital elements designed, developed or manufactured, and markets them under its name or trademark, whether for payment, monetisation or free of charge;

means a market surveillance authority as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;

means a near miss as defined in Article 6, point (5), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555;

means a conformity assessment body designated in accordance with Article 43 and other relevant Union harmonisation legislation;

means the national authority responsible for setting up and carrying out the necessary procedures for the assessment, designation and notification of conformity assessment bodies and for their monitoring;

means a legal person, other than a manufacturer, that has the purpose or objective of systematically providing support on a sustained basis for the development of specific products with digital elements, qualifying as free and open-source software and intended for commercial activities, and that ensures the viability of those products;

means personal data as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;

means a connection between electronic information systems or components implemented using physical means, including through electrical, optical or mechanical interfaces, wires or radio waves;

means the first making available of a product with digital elements on the Union market;

means a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately;

means the use of a product with digital elements in a way that is not in accordance with its intended purpose, but which may result from reasonably foreseeable human behaviour or interaction with other systems;

means use that is not necessarily the intended purpose supplied by the manufacturer in the instructions for use, promotional or sales materials and statements, as well as in the technical documentation, but which is likely to result from reasonably foreseeable human behaviour or technical operations or interactions;

means recall as defined in Article 3, point (22), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;

means data processing at a distance for which the software is designed and developed by the manufacturer, or under the responsibility of the manufacturer, and the absence of which would prevent the product with digital elements from performing one of its functions;

means a cybersecurity risk which, based on its technical characteristics, can be assumed to have a high likelihood of an incident that could lead to a severe negative impact, including by causing considerable material or non-material loss or disruption;

means the part of an electronic information system which consists of computer code;

means a formal record containing details and supply chain relationships of components included in the software elements of a product with digital elements;

means a change to the product with digital elements following its placing on the market, which affects the compliance of the product with digital elements with the essential cybersecurity requirements set out in Part I of Annex I or which results in a modification to the intended purpose for which the product with digital elements has been assessed;

means the period during which a manufacturer is required to ensure that vulnerabilities of a product with digital elements are handled effectively and in accordance with the essential cybersecurity requirements set out in Part II of Annex I;

means Union legislation listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and any other Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products to which that Regulation applies;

means a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of a product with digital elements that can be exploited by a cyber threat;

means withdrawal as defined in Article 3, point (23), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;