accreditation — accreditation as defined in point 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 (24)

appliance category — 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 (12)

appliances — 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 (1)

authorised representative — any natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on his behalf in relation to specified tasks (18)

burning — a process in which gaseous fuel reacts with oxygen producing heat or light (3)

CE marking — a marking by which the manufacturer indicates that the appliance or the fitting is in conformity with the applicable requirements set out in Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing (31)

conformity assessment — the process demonstrating whether the essential requirements of this Regulation relating to an appliance or a fitting have been fulfilled (26)

conformity assessment body — a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection (27)

cooking — the art or practice of preparing or warming food for consumption with the use of heat and employing a wide range of methods (5)

distributor — 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 (20)

economic operators — the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor (21)

energy efficiency — the ratio of output of performance of an appliance to input of energy (13)

fittings — 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 (2)

gas family — a group of gaseous fuels with similar burning behaviour linked together by a range of Wobbe indices (9)

gas group — a specified range of Wobbe indices within that of the gas family concerned (10)

gaseous fuel — any fuel which is in a gaseous state at a temperature of 15 °C under an absolute pressure of 1 bar (6)

harmonised standard — a harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 (23)

importer — any natural or legal person established within the Union who places an appliance or a fitting from a third country on the Union market (19)

industrial premises — any place where the main activity carried out is an industrial process that would be subject to specific national health and safety regulations (8)

industrial process — 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 (7)

making available on the market — any supply of an appliance or a fitting for distribution or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge (14)

manufacturer — 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 (17)

national accreditation body — a national accreditation body as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 (25)

placing on the market — the first making available of an appliance or a fitting on the Union market (15)

putting into service — the first use of an appliance in the Union by its end-user (16)

recall — 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 (28)

technical specification — a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by an appliance or a fitting (22)

Union harmonisation legislation — any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products (30)

washing — the entire washing process, including drying and ironing (4)

withdrawal — any measure aimed at preventing an appliance or a fitting in the supply chain from being made available on the market (29)

Wobbe index — an indicator of the interchangeability of fuel gases used to compare the combustion energy output of different composition fuel gases in an appliance (11)