Article 4 DefinitionsF1

For the purpose of this Directive:

1. (1)

   ‘ contracting authorities ’ means contracting authorities as defined in point 1 of Article 2(1) of Directive 2014/24/EU and in Article 3 of Directive 2014/25/EU;

2. (2)

   ‘ contracting entities ’ means contracting entities as defined in Article 4 of Directive 2014/25/EU;

3. (3)

   ‘ road transport vehicle ’ means a vehicle of category M or N, as defined in points (a) and (b) of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858;

4. (4)

   ‘ clean vehicle ’ means:

   1. (a)

      a vehicle of category M ₁ , M ₂ or N ₁ with a maximum tail-pipe emission expressed in CO ₂  g/km and real driving pollutant emissions below a percentage of the applicable emission limits as laid down in Table 2 of the Annex; or

   2. (b)

      a vehicle of category M ₃ , N ₂ or N ₃ using alternative fuels as defined in points (1) and (2) of Article 2 of Directive 2014/94/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council ^f1 , excluding fuels produced from high indirect land-use change-risk feed stock for which a significant expansion of the production area into land with high-carbon stock is observed in accordance with Article 26 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council ^f2 . In the case of vehicles using liquid biofuels, synthetic and paraffinic fuels, those fuels shall not be blended with conventional fossil fuels;

5. (5)

   ‘zero-emission heavy duty vehicle’ means a clean vehicle as defined in point 4(b) of this Article without an internal combustion engine, or with an internal combustion engine that emits less than 1 g CO ₂ /kWh as measured in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 595/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council ^f3 and its implementing measures, or that emits less than 1 g CO ₂ /km as measured in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council ^f4 and its implementing measures.