- accreditation
means ‘accreditation’ as defined in Article 2, point (10), of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
- authorised representative
means any natural or legal person established in the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on that manufacturer’s behalf in relation to specified tasks with regard to the manufacturer’s obligations under this Regulation;
- by-product
means a ‘by-product’ within the meaning of Article 5 of Directive 2008/98/EC;
- class
means a range of levels, delimited by a minimum and a maximum value, of performance of a product;
- construction product
means any formed or formless physical item, including 3D-printed products, or a kit that is placed on the market, including by means of supply to the construction site, for incorporation in a permanent manner into construction works or parts thereof with the exception of items that need first to be integrated into a kit or another construction product prior to being incorporated in a permanent manner into construction works;
- construction works
means buildings and civil engineering works whether over or in the ground or water, including but not limited to roads, bridges, tunnels, pylons and other facilities for transport of electricity, communication cables, pipelines, aqueducts, dams, airports, ports, waterways, and installations which are the bases for the rails of railways;
- 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;
- custom-made
means that, due to the specifications of the client, there is a variation in terms of size or material when compared with all other products produced for other clients by the economic operator in question;
- data carrier
means a linear bar code symbol, a two-dimensional symbol, or other automatic identification data capture medium that can be read by a device;
- declared use
means the use intended by the manufacturer, including the conditions for usage, as set out in technical documentation, on labels, in general product information, in instructions for use, in safety information, or in publicity material;
- designating authority
means the single public administration body, designated in accordance with this Regulation, in charge of the designation and monitoring of TABs in a Member State;
- distributor
means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes a product available on the market, including by offering products for sale, hire or hire purchase, or displaying products to customers or installers in the course of a commercial activity, and including through distance selling, whether or not in return for payment;
- EAD
means a document adopted by the organisation of technical assessment bodies for the purposes of issuing European technical assessments;
- economic operator
means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer, the distributor, the fulfilment service provider or any other natural or legal person who is subject to this Regulation in relation to the manufacturing or remanufacturing of products, including products to be reused, or to making those products available on the market, in accordance with this Regulation;
- essential characteristics
means those characteristics of the product which relate to the basic requirements for construction works set out in Annex I, and those which are listed as predetermined environmental essential characteristics in Annex II;
- ETA
means the documented assessment of the performance of a product, in relation to its essential characteristics, in accordance with the respective European assessment document;
- European standardisation organisation
means a ‘European standardisation organisation’ as defined in Article 2, point (8) of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;
- factory production control
means the documented, continuous and internal production control in a manufacturing plant with regard to certain parameters or quality aspects, reflecting the specificities of a respective product family or product category and manufacturing processes, and which aims at the constancy of performance or at the continuous fulfilment of product requirements, executed in accordance with Annex IX;
- fulfilment service provider
means a ‘fulfilment service provider’ as defined in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- harmonised technical specifications
means the performance harmonised standards which have been made mandatory for the purposes of the application of this Regulation in accordance with Article 5(8), the implementing acts referred to in Article 6(1) and the delegated acts referred to in Article 7(1), Article 9(3) and Article 10(2);
- importer
means an ‘importer’ as defined in Article 3, point (9), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- individually manufactured
means that, due to the specifications of the client, there is a need for readjustment of the production process for manufacture when compared with all other products produced for other clients by the economic operator in question;
- intended use
means the purpose of a product as set out in the applicable harmonised technical specifications or European assessment documents;
- internal market emergency mode
means ‘internal market emergency mode’ as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747.
- key part
means a part which is used as a component or spare part for a product and which has been specified by a harmonised technical specification as essential for the characterisation, safety or performance of a product;
- kit
means a product placed on the market by a single economic operator as a set of at least two separate items, none of which needs to be a product itself, intended to be incorporated together into construction works;
- level
means the result of the assessment of the performance of a product in relation to its essential characteristics, expressed as a numerical value;
- life cycle
means the consecutive and interlinked stages of a product’s life, from raw material acquisition or generation from natural resources, or in the case of products which have previously been incorporated into construction works, from the latest deinstallation from the construction work, to final disposal;
- maintenance
means an action carried out to keep a product in a condition where it is able to function as specified;
- making available on the market
means any supply of a 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, regardless whether in the framework of providing a service or not;
- manufacturer
means a ‘manufacturer’ as defined in Article 3, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- market surveillance authority
means a ‘market surveillance authority’ as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- micro-enterprise
means a ‘micro-enterprise’ as defined in Article 2(3) of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC;
- non-series process
means a process that is neither predominantly automated or predominantly carried out using assembly-line techniques, nor repeated very often in relation to the volume of production by the economic operator concerned or the economic operators belonging to the same group of companies, determined by a common controlling natural or legal person, or the same organisational structure;
- notified body
means a conformity assessment body authorised to carry out third-party assessment and verification tasks under this Regulation that has been duly notified;
- notifying authority
means the single public administration body, designated in accordance with this Regulation, in charge of the notification and monitoring of notified bodies;
- online interface
means an ‘online interface’ as defined in Article 3, point (15), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- online marketplace
means a provider of an intermediary service using an online interface which enables customers to conclude distance contracts with economic operators for the sale of products;
- performance
means the degree to which a product has certain scalable essential characteristics;
- permalink
means an internet link to a website which is stable both for its content and the address (‘URL’);
- permanent
means intended to remain in the construction work, or in parts thereof, after the completion of the construction or renovation process;
- placing on the market
means the first making available of a product on the Union market, or the first making available on the Union market of a used product after a deinstallation of such a product;
- product
means a construction product or other item falling within the scope of this Regulation as set out in Article 2;
- product category
means a subset of the product types of a certain product family encompassing those product types which have in common a certain intended use as specified in harmonised technical specifications or European assessment documents;
- product family
means all product types belonging to one of the families listed in Annex VII;
- product presenting a risk
means a product that, whenever during its entire life cycle, has an inherent potential to affect adversely the health and safety of persons, the environment or the fulfilment of basic requirements for construction works when incorporated in those works, to a degree which, taking account of the state-of-the-art, goes beyond what is considered reasonable and acceptable in relation to its intended use and under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use;
- product presenting a serious risk
means a ‘product presenting a serious risk’ as defined in Article 3, point (20), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- product requirement
means a characteristic, as set out in Annex III, which a product must have before it can be placed on the market;
- product type
means the abstract model of individual products, determined by the intended use and a set of characteristics which exclude any variation with regard to performance or to the fulfilment of product requirements set out in or in accordance with this Regulation, whilst identical products of different manufacturers belong to different product types;
- recall
means ‘recall’ as defined in Article 3, point (22), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- recyclability
means the capability of a material or product to be effectively and efficiently separated, collected, sorted and aggregated in specific waste streams for the purpose of being recycled into secondary raw materials while minimising the loss of quality or functionality compared to the relevant primary raw material;
- recycling
means ‘recycling’ as defined in Article 3, point (17), of Directive 2008/98/EC;
- remanufactured product
means a product that is not waste, or has ceased to be waste in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC, which has been installed at least once into a construction work, and that has been subject to a transformative process going beyond checking, cleaning and repairing recovery operations which, according to the applicable harmonised technical specification, are qualified as essential to the product’s performance;
- repair
means the process of fixing a faulty product or replacing its defective components, in order to return the product to a condition where it can fulfil its declared use;
- risk
means ‘risk’ as defined in Article 3, point (18), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- service provider
means any natural or legal person providing a service to a manufacturer or to a supplier of a key part, provided that the service is relevant for the manufacturing of products, including to their design, or to their deinstallation in the case of used products;
- single liaison point
means the authority designated as the focal point for contacts with the Commission and other Member States on construction product related issues;
- state of the art
means a way of achieving a certain goal which is either the most effective and advanced or close to it, or a way which is currently possible by applying common technologies, whether or not it is the most technologically advanced solution;
- supplier
means any natural or legal person providing raw materials, intermediate products, or used products to manufacturers or to other persons providing raw materials, intermediate products, or used products to manufacturers;
- TAB
means a body, designated in accordance with this Regulation, that issues European technical assessments on the basis of European assessment documents;
- threshold level
means a minimum or maximum performance level of a product with regard to a certain essential characteristic;
- used product
means a product that is not waste or has ceased to be waste in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC, and which has been installed at least once into a construction work, and that:
- withdrawal
means ‘withdrawal’ as defined in Article 3, point (23), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;