{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-672/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-672/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2010/672",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 672/2010 of 27 July 2010 concerning type-approval requirements for windscreen defrosting and demisting systems of certain motor vehicles and implementing Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning type-approval requirements for the general safety of motor vehicles, their trailers and systems, components and separate technical units intended therefor",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-672",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:\n1.. ‘vehicle type with regard to the windscreen defrosting and demisting systems’ means vehicles which do not differ in such essential respects as:\nthe characteristics of the defrosting and demisting systems,\nthe external and internal forms and arrangements within the 180° forward field of vision area of the driver which may affect visibility,\nthe shape, size, thickness and characteristics of the windscreen and its mounting,\nthe maximum number of seating positions;\n2.. ‘engine’ means a combustion engine running on either liquid or gaseous fuel;\n3.. ‘defrosting system’ means the system intended to eliminate frost or ice on the outside surface of the windscreen;\n4.. ‘defrosted area’ means the area of the windscreen having a dry outside surface or an outside surface covered with melted or partially melted wet frost which can be removed by the vehicle’s windscreen wiper system;\n5.. ‘demisting system’ means the system intended to remove mist on the inside surface of the windscreen;\n6.. ‘mist’ means a film of condensate on the inside face of the glazed surface of the windscreen;\n7.. ‘demisted area’ means the area of the windscreen having a dry inside surface, without any drops or traces of water, after previously being covered by mist;\n8.. ‘vision area A’ means test area A as defined in paragraph 2.2 of Annex 18 of UN-ECE Regulation 43;\n9.. ‘vision area B’ means reduced test area B as defined in paragraph 2.4 of Annex 18 of UN-ECE Regulation 43, without the exclusion of the area defined in paragraph 2.4.1 thereof;\n10.. ‘design torso angle’ means the angle measured between a vertical line through the R-point or seating reference point and the torso line in a position which corresponds to the design position of the seat-back as declared by the vehicle manufacturer;\n11.. ‘R-point’ or seating reference point means the design point defined by the vehicle manufacturer for each seating position with respect to the three-dimensional reference system;\n12.. ‘three-dimensional reference system’ means a reference grid which consists of a vertical longitudinal plane X-Z, a horizontal plane X-Y and a vertical transverse plane Y-Z in accordance with the provisions of Appendix 2 of Annex II;\n13.. ‘primary reference marks’ means holes, surfaces, marks or other identification signs on the vehicle body or chassis of which the X, Y and Z coordinates within the three-dimensional reference grid are specified by the vehicle manufacturer;\n14.. ‘vehicle master control switch’ means the device by which the vehicle’s on-board electronics system is brought from being switched off, as is the case when a vehicle is parked without the driver being present, to normal operation mode.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Hasn’t been published yet. Will be published by August 2010."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2010/672/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:50:42.000012+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."
}