- authorised representative
means any natural or legal person established within the Union that has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on its behalf in relation to specified tasks;
- cleaning
means the process by which an undesirable deposit is degraded or dislodged from a substrate or from within a substrate and brought into a state of solution or dispersion;
- consumer automatic dishwasher detergent
means a detergent placed on the market for use in automatic dishwashers by non-professionals;
- consumer laundry detergent
means a detergent for laundry placed on the market for use by non-professionals, including in public laundrettes;
- corrective action
means a corrective action as defined in Article 3, point (16), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- customs authorities
means customs authorities as defined in Article 5, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
- data carrier
means a data carrier as defined in Article 2, first paragraph, point (29), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781;
- detergent
means a substance, mixture or micro-organisms, or a combination thereof, which are intended:
- detergent containing micro-organisms
means a detergent to which one or more micro-organisms have been intentionally added, either on their own or via one of the components of the detergent;
- digital product passport
means a set of data specific to a product that contains the information set out in Part A of Annex VI and that is accessible via electronic means through a data carrier in accordance with Article 21(4);
- digital product passport service provider
means a digital product passport service provider as defined in Article 2, first paragraph, point (32), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781;
- distributor
means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or importer, that makes a detergent or surfactant available on the market;
- economic operator
means the manufacturer, authorised representative, importer or distributor;
- end-user
means any natural or legal person residing or established in the Union to whom a detergent or surfactant has been made available on the market, either as a consumer outside of any trade, business, craft or profession or as a professional end-user in the course of its industrial or professional activities.
- end-user surfactant
means a surfactant made available on the market to professional users or consumers;
- films
means water-soluble polymeric films used as detergents capsules;
- genetically modified micro-organisms
means micro-organisms in which the genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or by natural recombination;
- importer
means any natural or legal person established within the Union that places a detergent or surfactant from a third country on the Union market;
- individual packaging
means packaging in which the detergent or end-user surfactant is made available on the market and which is intended to accompany the content to the place of use;
- industrial and institutional detergent
means a detergent placed on the market for use only outside the domestic sphere, carried out by specialised personnel;
- making available on the market
means any supply for distribution, consumption 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 that manufactures or has a detergent or a surfactant designed or manufactured, and that places that detergent or surfactant on the market under their name or trade mark;
- market surveillance
means the activities carried out and measures taken by market surveillance authorities to ensure that products comply with this Regulation;
- market surveillance authority
means a market surveillance authority as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- micro-organism
means a micro-organism as defined in Article 3(1), point (b), of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012;
- mixture
means a mixture as defined in Article 3, point (2), of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006;
- model
means a type of detergent or surfactant all of whose units meet the following conditions:
- placing on the market
means the first making available on the Union market;
- recall
means a recall as defined in Article 3, point (22), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- refill
means the on-site operation by which a detergent or surfactant offered by an economic operator to end-users in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge, is filled in a packaging;
- refill station
means a place where an economic operator offers to end-users a detergent or surfactant that can be acquired through refill, either manually or through automatic or semi-automatic equipment;
- release for free circulation
means the procedure laid down in Article 201 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
- substance
means a substance as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006;
- surfactant
means any organic substance or mixture contained in or intended to be used in detergents which has surface-active properties, and which consists of one or more hydrophilic and one or more hydrophobic groups of such a nature and size that it is capable of performing all of the following actions:
- ultimate aerobic biodegradation
means the level of biodegradation achieved when the substance or mixture is totally used by micro-organisms in the presence of oxygen, resulting in its breakdown to carbon dioxide, water and mineral salts of any other elements present, as measured by test methods listed in Part A of Annex I, and new microbial cellular constituents (biomass);
- unique formula identifier
means a unique formula identifier as referred to in Part A, point 5, of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008;
- unique operator identifier
means a unique operator identifier as defined in Article 2, first paragraph, point (31), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781;
- unique product identifier
means a unique product identifier as defined in Article 2, first paragraph, point (30), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781;
- withdrawal
means a withdrawal as defined in Article 3, point (23), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;