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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-47/article-3",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2014/47",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2014/47/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the technical roadside inspection of the roadworthiness of commercial vehicles circulating in the Union and repealing Directive 2000/30/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-47",
  "path": "article/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "The following definitions shall only apply for the purposes of this Directive:\n(1) ‘vehicle’ means any not rail-borne motor vehicle or its trailer;\n(2) ‘motor vehicle’ means any power-driven vehicle on wheels which is moved by its own means with a maximum design speed exceeding 25 km/h;\n(3) ‘trailer’ means any non-self propelled vehicle on wheels which is designed and constructed to be towed by a motor vehicle;\n(4) ‘semi-trailer’ means any trailer designed to be coupled to a motor vehicle in such a way that part of it rests on the motor vehicle and a substantial part of its mass and the mass of its load is borne by the motor vehicle;\n(5) ‘cargo’ means all goods that would normally be placed in or on the part of the vehicle designed to carry a load and that are not permanently fixed to the vehicle, including objects within load carriers such as crates, swap bodies or containers on vehicles;\n(6) ‘commercial vehicle’ means a motor vehicle and its trailer or semi-trailer used primarily for the transport of goods or passengers for commercial purposes, such as transport for hire and reward or own-account transport, or for other professional purposes;\n(7) ‘vehicle registered in a Member State’ means a vehicle which is registered or put into service in a Member State;\n(8) ‘holder of a registration certificate’ means the legal or natural person in whose name the vehicle is registered;\n(9) ‘undertaking’ means an undertaking as defined in point 4 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009;\n(10) ‘technical roadside inspection’ means an unexpected technical inspection of the roadworthiness of a commercial vehicle carried out by the competent authorities of a Member State or under their direct supervision;\n(11) ‘public road’ means a road that is of general public utility, such as a local, regional or national road, highway, expressway or motorway;\n(12) ‘roadworthiness test’ means an inspection in accordance with point (9) of Article 3 of Directive 2014/45/EU;\n(13) ‘roadworthiness certificate’ means a roadworthiness test report issued by the competent authority or a testing centre containing the result of the roadworthiness test;\n(14) ‘competent authority’ means an authority or public body entrusted by a Member State with responsibility for managing the system of technical roadside inspections, including, where appropriate, the carrying-out of such inspections;\n(15) ‘inspector’ means a person authorised by a Member State or by its competent authority to carry out initial and/or more detailed technical roadside inspections;\n(16) ‘deficiencies’ mean technical defects and other instances of non-compliance found during a technical roadside inspection;\n(17) ‘concerted roadside inspection’ means a technical roadside inspection undertaken jointly by the competent authorities of two or more Member States;\n(18) ‘operator’ means a natural or legal person operating the vehicle as its owner or authorised to operate the vehicle by its owner;\n(19) ‘mobile inspection unit’ means a transportable system of test equipment needed to carry out more detailed technical roadside inspections, staffed by inspectors who are competent to carry out more detailed roadside inspection;\n(20) ‘designated roadside inspection facility’ means a fixed area for the performance of initial and/or more detailed technical roadside inspections which may also be equipped with permanently installed test equipment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2014/47/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:45.779348+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}