Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions apply: (1) ‘appliances’ means appliances burning gaseous fuels used for cooking, refrigeration, air-conditioning, space heating, hot water production, lighting or washing, and also forced draught burners and heating bodies to be equipped with such burners; (2) ‘fittings’ means safety devices, controlling devices or regulating devices and sub-assemblies thereof, designed to be incorporated into an appliance or to be assembled to constitute an appliance; (3) ‘burning’ means a process in which gaseous fuel reacts with oxygen producing heat or light; (4) ‘washing’ means the entire washing process, including drying and ironing; (5) ‘cooking’ means the art or practice of preparing or warming food for consumption with the use of heat and employing a wide range of methods; (6) ‘gaseous fuel’ means any fuel which is in a gaseous state at a temperature of 15 °C under an absolute pressure of 1 bar; (7) ‘industrial process’ means the extraction, growth, refining, processing, production, manufacture or preparation of materials, plants, livestock, animal products, food or other products with a view to their commercial use; (8) ‘industrial premises’ means any place where the main activity carried out is an industrial process that would be subject to specific national health and safety regulations; (9) ‘gas family’ means a group of gaseous fuels with similar burning behaviour linked together by a range of Wobbe indices; (10) ‘gas group’ means a specified range of Wobbe indices within that of the gas family concerned; (11) ‘Wobbe index’ means an indicator of the interchangeability of fuel gases used to compare the combustion energy output of different composition fuel gases in an appliance; (12) ‘appliance category’ means the identification of gas families and/or gas groups that an appliance is designed to burn safely and at the desired performance level, as indicated by the appliance category marking; (13) ‘energy efficiency’ means the ratio of output of performance of an appliance to input of energy; (14) ‘making available on the market’ means any supply of an appliance or a fitting for distribution or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge; (15) ‘placing on the market’ means the first making available of an appliance or a fitting on the Union market; (16) ‘putting into service’ means the first use of an appliance in the Union by its end-user; (17) ‘manufacturer’ means any natural or legal person who manufactures an appliance or a fitting or who has an appliance or a fitting designed or manufactured, and markets that appliance or fitting under his name or trademark or uses the appliance for his own purposes; (18) ‘authorised representative’ means any natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on his behalf in relation to specified tasks; (19) ‘importer’ means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places an appliance or a fitting from a third country on the Union market; (20) ‘distributor’ means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes an appliance or a fitting available on the market; (21) ‘economic operators’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor; (22) ‘technical specification’ means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by an appliance or a fitting; (23) ‘harmonised standard’ means a harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012; (24) ‘accreditation’ means accreditation as defined in point 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008; (25) ‘national accreditation body’ means a national accreditation body as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008; (26) ‘conformity assessment’ means the process demonstrating whether the essential requirements of this Regulation relating to an appliance or a fitting have been fulfilled; (27) ‘conformity assessment body’ means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection; (28) ‘recall’ means any measure aimed at achieving the return of an appliance that has already been made available to the end-user or of a fitting that has already been made available to an appliance manufacturer; (29) ‘withdrawal’ means any measure aimed at preventing an appliance or a fitting in the supply chain from being made available on the market; (30) ‘Union harmonisation legislation’ means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products; (31) ‘CE marking’ means a marking by which the manufacturer indicates that the appliance or the fitting is in conformity with the applicable requirements set out in Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing.