Definitions
Article 2
For the purpose of this Regulation, the definitions in Article 3 of, and Annexes III, VIII, X and Xa to, Regulation (EU) 2017/2400, and Article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1127 shall apply. In addition, the following definitions shall apply: (1) ‘verification testing procedure (“VTP”) family’ means a group of vehicles which have in common one or more of the components, separate technical units and systems listed in Article 12(1), points (a) to (f), (h) and (j), of Regulation (EU) 2017/2400; (2) ‘verification testing procedure (“VTP”) test’ means a test carried out in accordance with the verification testing procedure performed on a vehicle in service in accordance with Annex Xa to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400; (3) ‘in-service verification (“ISV”) air drag family’ means a group of vehicles, that have a lower or equal declared air drag value than the parent vehicle of the air drag family which has been selected for performing an air drag test, and that are permitted to be with this parent vehicle within the same air drag family as set out in Appendix 5 of Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400; (4) ‘air drag test’ means a constant speed test with torque measurements performed on a vehicle in service in accordance with Section 3 of Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400; (5) ‘CFD family’ means a group of vehicles for which the air drag value has been determined using the same computational fluid dynamics (‘CFD’) simulation method, as approved in accordance with Appendix 10 of Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400; (6) ‘CFD method air drag test’ means a test to verify the specific validation of the computational fluid dynamics (‘CFD’) simulation method approved in accordance with Appendix 10 of Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400; (7) ‘in-service verification (“ISV”) tyre family’ means a group of tyres consisting, for the purpose of in-service verification, of all tyres belonging to a type of tyre, as defined in Section 2, point 3, of Annex X to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400, from the same manufacturer and from the same fuel efficiency class, as defined in Regulation (EU) 2020/740 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 6 ) ; (8) ‘tyre rolling resistance coefficient (“RRC”) test’ means a test performed on each tyre in accordance with Section 3, point 3.2, of Annex X to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400, in a reference laboratory or candidate laboratory as defined in Section 1, point (1) and (2), of Annex V to Regulation (EU) 2020/740; (9) ‘mass test’ means a test to determine the ‘corrected actual mass of the vehicle’, as defined in Section 2, point (4), of Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400, or in the case of a trailer, the ‘corrected mass in running order’, as defined in Section 3, Table 1, of Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1362; (10) ‘artificial strategies test’ means a dedicated test performed on a vehicle in-service to verify whether artificial strategies are present; (11) ‘deviation in the CO 2 emission values’ means that the CO 2 emissions of vehicles determined in an in-service verification carried out under this Regulation, are higher than the emissions determined, for motor vehicles, in accordance with the procedures set out in Regulation (EU) 2017/2400 or, for trailers, in accordance with the procedures set out in Iplementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1362, and recorded in the customer information file, certificates of conformity or individual approval certificates accompanying those motor vehicles or trailers, taking into account the statistical evaluation of the tests in accordance with Annex I.