# Directive 2009/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of clean road transport vehicles in support of low-emission mobility (Text with EEA relevance), Article 4: Definitions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purpose of this Directive:
(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) ‘ contracting entities ’ means contracting entities as defined in Article 4 of Directive 2014/25/EU;
(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) ‘ clean vehicle ’ means:
(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
(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 , 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 . In the case of vehicles using liquid biofuels, synthetic and paraffinic fuels, those fuels shall not be blended with conventional fossil fuels;
(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 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 and its implementing measures.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/33/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-33/article-4
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