The Electromagnetic Compatibility Regulations 1992

has the meaning given by Article 1.2(c) of Council Directive 90/385/EEC on the approximation of laws of the Member States relating to active implantable medical devices.

has the meaning given by Article 1 of Council Directive 75/322/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the suppression of radio interference produced by spark-ignition engines fitted to wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors, as amended by Article 1 of Council Directive 82/890/EEC amending the Directives on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors.

has the meaning given by Article 1, definition 53, of the 1990 edition of the Radio Regulations annexed to the International Telecommunication Convention 1982 pursuant to Articles 43 and 83 of that Convention;

means a person established within the Community appointed by the manufacturer (whether or not established in the Community) to act on his behalf in fulfilling his obligations under the EMC Directive;

means manufactured in the course of a business of manufacture of relevant apparatus.

includes a profession and an undertaking, and a supply in the course of a business includes any supply by a business;

includes an industrial or commercial consumer;

means apparatus designed or adapted for the purpose of its being studied for electromagnetic phenomena in any educational, training or research establishment.

means any new direct connected induction meter, with single or multiple tariffs, designed to measure active energy single-phase or polyphase current at 50 H3 frequency mentioned or referred to in Article 2 of Council Directive 76/891/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electrical energy meters.

means, subject to paragraphs (2) to (6) below, any electromagnetic phenomenon which is liable to degrade the performance of relevant apparatus.

means the consumer and, where the manufacturer makes apparatus for his own use, such manufacturer who first uses electrical apparatus for the purpose for which it is designed, but excludes a manufacturer who uses the apparatus by incorporating it into other apparatus;

includes, where a UK notified body considers appropriate, the dis-assembly of apparatus;

means two or more combined items of relevant apparatus or systems put together at a given place (whether or not in combination with any other item) to fulfil a specific objective but not designed by the manufacturer (or manufacturers, where the items are made by different manufacturers) for supply as a single functional unit.

means immunity to electromagnetic disturbance;

means any device which is a reagent, reagent product, kit, instrument, equipment or system, whether used alone or in combination, intended by the manufacturer to be used solely or principally in vitro for the examination of substances derived from the human body with a view to providing information for the detection, diagnosis, control or treatment of a physiological state, of a state of health or disease, or of a congenital abnormality.

means a collection of all or substantially all the necessary components, for supply as a single commercial unit, required for the construction of an item of electrical apparatus and intended for such use, whether or not accompanied by instructions;

means manufacture in the course of a business, and includes— (a) assembly;

means any instrument, apparatus, appliance, material or other article, including software, whether used alone or in combination, intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings solely or principally for the purpose of— and which does not achieve its principal intended action in or on the human body by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, but which may be assisted in its function by such means, but excluding— and in this definition, “in vitro diagnostic device ” means any device which is a reagent, reagent product, kit, instrument, equipment or system, whether used alone or in combination, intended by the manufacturer to be used solely or principally in vitro for the examination of substances derived from the human body with a view to providing information for the detection, diagnosis, control or treatment of a physiological state, of a state of health or disease, or of a congenital abnormality.

means apparatus which is designed for use as arms, munitions and war material within the meaning of Article 223.1(b) of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (notwithstanding that it may be capable of other applications), but does not include apparatus which is designed both for such use and for other applications.

has the meaning given by the second indent of Article 1.1 read in conjunction with Article 1.2(a) of Council Directive 90/384/EEC on the harmonization of the laws of the Member States relating to non-automatic weighing instruments.

means a notification in writing;

has the meaning given by regulation 5 below;

means any information which has been disclosed in any civil or criminal proceedings;

means wireless telegraphy apparatus designed or adapted for use in the amateur service, but excludes citizen’s band apparatus, and in this definition— (a) “amateur service ” has the meaning given by Article 1, definition 53, of the 1990 edition of the Radio Regulations annexed to the International Telecommunication Convention 1982 pursuant to Articles 43 and 83 of that Convention;

means that part of the electromagnetic spectrum at frequencies not exceeding 3,000 GHz;

has the meaning given by regulation 59(2) below;

means— (a) a Minister of the Crown, Government department or Northern Ireland department;

means apparatus which has previously been used by an end user.

means a component or combination of components intended for use in replacing parts of electrical apparatus.

means a space no greater in size than is reasonably necessary having regard to all the circumstances, to enable the disturbance permissible apparatus to be so operated or so subjected, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, having regard in particular to the steps which might reasonably be taken to insulate the site at which the disturbance permissible apparatus is being used against the escape of emissions therefrom;

means the first making available of relevant apparatus for a consumer in the Community including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, offering to supply, agreeing to supply, exposing for supply and possessing for supply such apparatus, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

means an item of equipment, or a combination of items of equipment, containing— (a) electrical components;

means terminal equipment within the meaning of Article 1.2, as qualified by Article 1.3, of the Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Directive in respect of which a common technical regulation is in force pursuant to Article 6.2 of that Directive;

means Council Directive 91/263/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning telecommunications terminal equipment, including the mutual recognition of their conformity;

means relevant apparatus designed or adapted to generate or be susceptible to electromagnetic disturbance intentionally for the purpose of conducting any test or measurement in relation to—

means the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949;

means the Telecommunications Act 1984;

means the Broadcasting Act 1990;

means the Commission of the European Communities;

means the European Economic Community;

means Council Directive 89/336/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electromagnetic compatibility, as amended by—

has the meaning given by Article 1 of Council Directive 72/245/EEC on the approximation of laws of the Member States relating to the suppression of radio interference produced by spark-ignition engines fitted to motor vehicles.