# 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), Article 2: Definitions Extent: E+W+S+N.I. For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions apply: (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)‘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)‘burning’ means a process in which gaseous fuel reacts with oxygen producing heat or light; (4)‘washing’ means the entire washing process, including drying and ironing; (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)‘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)‘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)‘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)‘gas family’ means a group of gaseous fuels with similar burning behaviour linked together by a range of Wobbe indices; (10)‘gas group’ means a specified range of Wobbe indices within that of the gas family concerned; (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)‘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)‘energy efficiency’ means the ratio of output of performance of an appliance to input of energy; (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; (15)‘placing on the market’ means the first making available of an appliance or a fitting on the market of Great Britain; (16)‘putting into service’ means the first use of an appliance in Great Britain by its end-user; (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)‘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; (19) “importer” means a person who— (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 (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)‘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)‘economic operators’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor; (22)‘technical specification’ means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by an appliance or a fitting; (23). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (24). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (25). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (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)‘conformity assessment body’ means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection; (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)‘withdrawal’ means any measure aimed at preventing an appliance or a fitting in the supply chain from being made available on the market; (30). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (31). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (32)‘approved body’ has the meaning given in Article 19; (33)‘designated standard’ has the meaning given in Article 6A; (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)‘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)‘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)‘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)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. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/426/article/2 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-426/article-2 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.