- Application Programming Interface
means a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software to share data;
- Business Registration Number
means the alphanumerical code, attributed by a business register at national level to the legal person or to the natural person performing a professional activity and providing evidence of its identity and its establishment in the Member State where the register is established.
- data exchange model
means an XML model used to define the data structure and semantics of the product data, by means of the XML markup language and which permits the data import of the product model’s parameter values from a supplier’s database to the product database;
- date of end of placing on the market
means the date of placing on the market of the last unit of a product model;
- date of placing on the market
means the date of placing on the market of the first unit of a product model;
- European Product Registry for Energy Labelling
means the product database established and maintained by the Commission in line with Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1369;
- Global Trade Item Number
means a unique and internationally recognised identifier attributed by the GS1 international organization, used to identify trade items to facilitate accurate identification.
- NTR
means the acronym for identification based on an identifier from a national trade register, as in paragraph 5.1.4 of EN 319412-1.
- online portal
means the website giving access to the public part and to the compliance part of EPREL and containing the information set out in point 2 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 and other relevant information on energy efficiency of products;
- Register ID
means the alphanumerical code assigned by a Member State’s authority, or someone acting on its behalf, to the particular section or office of the business register assigning the business registration number to natural persons or legal persons performing a professional activity, such as business or trade.
- registered product model
means a model of a product, whose parameter values have been entered into EPREL.
- trade register
means a Member State’s national public sector body attributing business registration numbers to natural persons or legal persons performing a professional activity such as business or trade and providing evidence of their establishment in the Member State where the national public sector body is established;
- transfer protocol
means the protocol for electronic communication over the internet to securely exchange information between the computer systems of the supplier and of the Commission;
- unverified supplier
means an EPREL supplier that has not yet successfully completed the supplier verification process in the EPREL compliance system, including those not having renewed the qualified electronic seal within the required deadline;
- verification process
means the process by which a natural person or legal person provides evidence of identity and of establishment in the Union, entitling them to register products in EPREL;
- verified supplier
means an EPREL supplier that has successfully completed the supplier verification process in the EPREL compliance system according to Articles 4, 5 and 6;