Article 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions apply:

1. (1)

   ‘appliances’ means appliances burning gaseous fuels used for cooking, refrigeration, air-conditioning, space heating, hot water production, lighting or washing, and also forced draught burners and heating bodies to be equipped with such burners;

2. (2)

   ‘fittings’ means safety devices, controlling devices or regulating devices and sub-assemblies thereof, designed to be incorporated into an appliance or to be assembled to constitute an appliance;

3. (3)

   ‘burning’ means a process in which gaseous fuel reacts with oxygen producing heat or light;

4. (4)

   ‘washing’ means the entire washing process, including drying and ironing;

5. (5)

   ‘cooking’ means the art or practice of preparing or warming food for consumption with the use of heat and employing a wide range of methods;

6. (6)

   ‘gaseous fuel’ means any fuel which is in a gaseous state at a temperature of 15 °C under an absolute pressure of 1 bar;

7. (7)

   ‘industrial process’ means the extraction, growth, refining, processing, production, manufacture or preparation of materials, plants, livestock, animal products, food or other products with a view to their commercial use;

8. (8)

   ‘industrial premises’ means any place where the main activity carried out is an industrial process that would be subject to specific national health and safety regulations;

9. (9)

   ‘gas family’ means a group of gaseous fuels with similar burning behaviour linked together by a range of Wobbe indices;

10. (10)

    ‘gas group’ means a specified range of Wobbe indices within that of the gas family concerned;

11. (11)

    ‘Wobbe index’ means an indicator of the interchangeability of fuel gases used to compare the combustion energy output of different composition fuel gases in an appliance;

12. (12)

    ‘appliance category’ means the identification of gas families and/or gas groups that an appliance is designed to burn safely and at the desired performance level, as indicated by the appliance category marking;

13. (13)

    ‘energy efficiency’ means the ratio of output of performance of an appliance to input of energy;

14. (14)

    ‘making available on the market’ means any supply of an appliance or a fitting for distribution or use on the F1market of Great Britain in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;

15. (15)

    ‘placing on the market’ means the first making available of an appliance or a fitting on the F2market of Great Britain;

16. (16)

    ‘putting into service’ means the first use of an appliance in F3Great Britain by its end-user;

17. (17)

    ‘manufacturer’ means any natural or legal person who manufactures an appliance or a fitting or who has an appliance or a fitting designed or manufactured, and markets that appliance or fitting under his name or trademark or uses the appliance for his own purposes;

18. (18)

    ‘authorised representative’ means any natural or legal person established within the F4United Kingdom who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on his behalf in relation to specified tasks;

19. (19)

    F5 “importer” means a person who—

    1. (a)

       is established in the United Kingdom and places an appliance or fitting from a country outside of the United Kingdom on the market; or

    2. (b)

       is established in Northern Ireland and places an appliance or fitting on the market that has been supplied to them for distribution, consumption or use in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge, from an EEA state;

20. (20)

    ‘distributor’ means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes an appliance or a fitting available on the market;

21. (21)

    ‘economic operators’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;

22. (22)

    ‘technical specification’ means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by an appliance or a fitting;

23. (23)

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26. (26)

    ‘conformity assessment’ means the process demonstrating whether the essential requirements of this Regulation relating to an appliance or a fitting have been fulfilled;

27. (27)

    ‘conformity assessment body’ means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;

28. (28)

    ‘recall’ means any measure aimed at achieving the return of an appliance that has already been made available to the end-user or of a fitting that has already been made available to an appliance manufacturer;

29. (29)

    ‘withdrawal’ means any measure aimed at preventing an appliance or a fitting in the supply chain from being made available on the market;

30. (30)

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32. (32)

    F8‘approved body’ has the meaning given in Article 19;

33. (33)

    ‘designated standard’ has the meaning given in Article 6A;

34. (34)

    ‘enforcement authority’ means a person enforcing this Regulation under regulation 4 of the Gas Appliances (Enforcement) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/389);

35. (35)

    ‘UK marking’ means the marking in the form set out in Annex 2 of Regulation (EC) 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) 339/93;

36. (36)

    ‘UK national accreditation body’ means the body appointed by the Secretary of State in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) 339/93;

37. (37)

    ‘Regulation 2016/426 (pre-exit)’ means Regulation (EU) 2016/426 of the European Parliament and of the Council on appliances burning gaseous fuels and repealing Directive 2009/142/EC, as it had effect immediately before IP completion day;

38. (38)

    In this Regulation, references to “the market surveillance authority” are to be construed in accordance with regulation 3 of the Gas Appliances (Enforcement) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2018.