# Regulation (EC) No 78/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009 on the type-approval of motor vehicles with regard to the protection of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users, amending Directive 2007/46/EC and repealing Directives 2003/102/EC and 2005/66/EC (Text with EEA relevance), Article 3: Definitions

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

For the purposes of this Regulation:
1..‘A-pillar’ means the foremost and outermost roof support extending from the chassis to the roof of the vehicle;
2..‘brake assist system’ means a function of the braking system that deduces an emergency braking event from a characteristic of the driver’s brake demand and, under such conditions:
(a)assists the driver to deliver the maximum achievable braking rate; or
(b)is sufficient to cause full cycling of the Anti-lock Braking System;
3..‘bumper’ means any front, lower, outer structures of a vehicle, including attachments thereto, which are intended to give protection to a vehicle when involved in a low speed frontal collision with another vehicle; it does not include, however, any frontal protection system;
4..‘frontal protection system’ means a separate structure or structures, such as a bull bar, or a supplementary bumper which, in addition to the original-equipment bumper, is intended to protect the external surface of the vehicle from damage in the event of a collision with an object, with the exception of structures having a mass of less than 0,5 kg, intended to protect only the vehicle’s lights;
5..‘maximum mass’ means the technically permissible maximum laden mass stated by the manufacturer pursuant to point 2.8 of Annex I to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/683;
6..‘vehicles of category N1’ derived from M1’ means those vehicles of N1 category which, forward of the A-pillars, have the same general structure and shape as a pre-existing M1 category vehicle;
7..‘vehicles of category M1’ derived from N1’ means those vehicles of M1 category which, forward of the A-pillars, have the same general structure and shape as a pre-existing N1 category vehicle.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/78/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-78/article-3
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