Chapter VII, Article 14 · Regulation (EU) 2026/1030

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Article 14Conformity assessment bodies#

1.Conformity assessment bodies shall be accredited to carry out the certification or verification activities referred to in Articles 11, 12 and 13.

2.The conformity assessment body shall be independent from transport and hub entities and from data intermediaries applying for the certification or verification activities referred to in Articles 11, 12 and 13.

3.The conformity assessment body, its top-level management and the personnel responsible for carrying out the certification or verification activities shall not engage in any activity that may conflict with their independence of judgement or integrity in relation to certification or verification activities.

4.The conformity assessment body and its personnel shall carry out the certification or verification activities with the highest degree of professional integrity and the requisite technical competence and shall be free from all pressures and inducements, particularly financial, which might influence their judgment or the results of those activities, especially as regards persons or groups of persons with an interest in the results of those activities.

5.The conformity assessment body shall have the expertise, equipment and infrastructure required to carry out the certification or verification activities in relation to which it has been accredited.

6.The personnel of a conformity assessment body shall observe professional secrecy with regard to all information obtained in carrying out the certification or verification activities.

7.Where a conformity assessment body subcontracts specific activities connected with certification or verification, or has recourse to a subsidiary, it shall take full responsibility for the activities carried out by subcontractors and subsidiaries wherever those activities are carried out, including by assessing and monitoring the qualifications of the subcontractor or the subsidiary and the work carried out by them.

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calculation tool
means an application, model or software allowing for the automatic calculation of greenhouse gas emissions from a transport service;
carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)
means a unit for comparing the radiative forcing of a greenhouse gas to that of carbon dioxide;
conformity assessment body
means a conformity assessment body as defined in Article 2, point 13, of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008.
data intermediary
means a legal or natural person who provides information on greenhouse gas emissions from transport services that start or end on the Union territory, but who does not provide or organise those services;
default value
means a secondary data value drawn from a published source, which is taken as default where there is a lack of primary or modelled data;
energy carrier
means a substance or phenomenon that can be used to produce mechanical work or heat or to operate chemical or physical processes;
external calculation tool
means a calculation tool that is provided on the market by a third party for broad commercial or non-commercial use;
greenhouse gas
means a gaseous constituent of the atmosphere, both natural and anthropogenic, that absorbs and emits radiation at specific wavelengths within the spectrum of infrared radiation emitted by the Earth’s surface, the atmosphere and clouds;
greenhouse gas activity
means activity that results in a greenhouse gas emission;
greenhouse gas activity data
means a quantitative measure of a greenhouse gas activity;
greenhouse gas emission
means the release of a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere expressed in mass of carbon dioxide equivalent;
greenhouse gas emission factor
means a coefficient relating greenhouse gas activity data to the greenhouse gas emission;
greenhouse gas emission intensity
means a coefficient relating transport activity or hub activity to the greenhouse gas emission;
greenhouse gas emissions accounting
means the actions performed to quantify, through measurements and calculations, and used for reporting, greenhouse gas emissions;
hub operation
means an operation in order to transfer freight or passengers through a hub;
hub operator
means an entity that carries out hub operations involving carriage of freight or passengers;
modelled data
means secondary data established by the use of a model that takes into account primary data and/or greenhouse gas emission-relevant parameters of a transport operation or hub operation, including by the use of a model provided through a calculation tool;
output data
means disaggregated data on greenhouse gas emissions from a transport service established by using the common methodology and input data set out by this Regulation;
primary data
means the quantified value of a process or an activity obtained from a direct measurement or a calculation based on direct measurements;
secondary data
means either modelled data or default values that do not fulfil the requirements for primary data, including data from databases and published literature, default values for greenhouse gas emission factors from national inventories, calculated data, estimates or other representative data and data obtained from proxy processes or estimates;
transport and hub entities
means transport service organiser, transport operator and hub operator;
transport chain
means a sequence of transport elements related to freight or a (group of) passenger(s) that, when taken together, constitutes its movement from an origin to a destination;
transport chain element
means a section of a transport chain within which the freight or a (group of) passenger(s) is carried by a single vehicle or transits through a single hub;
transport operation
means operation of a vehicle in order to transport passengers and/or freight;
transport operator
means an entity that carries out transport operations involving carriage of freight or passengers, or both;
transport service
means transporting freight or a passenger from an origin to a destination;
transport service organiser
means an entity that provides transport services within which the operation of some transport chain elements is subcontracted to one or more entities that operate them;
vehicle
means a means of transporting passengers or freight, or both, in all transport modes;
well-to-wheel greenhouse gas emissions
means emissions representing the greenhouse gas impact stemming from the use of vehicles and the operation of transport hubs, and from the provision of energy to those services;