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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-426/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2016/426",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2016/426 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on appliances burning gaseous fuels and repealing Directive 2009/142/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-426",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions apply:\n(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;\n(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;\n(3)‘burning’ means a process in which gaseous fuel reacts with oxygen producing heat or light;\n(4)‘washing’ means the entire washing process, including drying and ironing;\n(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;\n(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;\n(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;\n(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;\n(9)‘gas family’ means a group of gaseous fuels with similar burning behaviour linked together by a range of Wobbe indices;\n(10)‘gas group’ means a specified range of Wobbe indices within that of the gas family concerned;\n(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;\n(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;\n(13)‘energy efficiency’ means the ratio of output of performance of an appliance to input of energy;\n(14)‘making available on the market’ means any supply of an appliance or a fitting for distribution or use on the market of Great Britain in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;\n(15)‘placing on the market’ means the first making available of an appliance or a fitting on the market of Great Britain;\n(16)‘putting into service’ means the first use of an appliance in Great Britain by its end-user;\n(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;\n(18)‘authorised representative’ means any natural or legal person established within the United Kingdom who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on his behalf in relation to specified tasks;\n(19) “importer” means a person who—\n(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\n(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;\n(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;\n(21)‘economic operators’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;\n(22)‘technical specification’ means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by an appliance or a fitting;\n(23). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(24). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(25). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(26)‘conformity assessment’ means the process demonstrating whether the essential requirements of this Regulation relating to an appliance or a fitting have been fulfilled;\n(27)‘conformity assessment body’ means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;\n(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;\n(29)‘withdrawal’ means any measure aimed at preventing an appliance or a fitting in the supply chain from being made available on the market;\n(30). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(31). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(32)‘approved body’ has the meaning given in Article 19;\n(33)‘designated standard’ has the meaning given in Article 6A;\n(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);\n(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;\n(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;\n(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;\n(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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(14) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 36 para. 2(3)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2 and S.I. 2020/1460, reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 25(4)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(15) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 36 para. 2(3)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2 and S.I. 2020/1460, reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 25(4)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(16) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 36 para. 2(3)(aa) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2 and S.I. 2020/1460, reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 25(5)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(18) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (UK(NI) Indication) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1460), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 1(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 2(19) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 36 para. 2(3)(c) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2 and S.I. 2020/1460, reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 25(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 2(23)-(25) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 36 para. 2(3)(d) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 2(30)-(31) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 36 para. 2(3)(d) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Art. 2(32)-(38) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 36 para. 2(3)(e) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2 and S.I. 2020/852, regs. 2(2), 4(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(v)(iii)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
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