Defined terms — Regulation (EU) 2019/515 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2019 on the mutual recognition of goods lawfully marketed in another Member State and repealing Regulation (EC) No 764/2008 (Text with EEA relevance.)
European Union · 32019R0515 · 379 provisions
15 defined in this instrument.
authorised representative — any natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a producer to act on that producer's behalf with regard to the making available of goods on the market in question (9)
conformity assessment body — a conformity assessment body as defined in point 13 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 (15)
denying market access — any of the following:
prohibiting goods from being made available on the market in the Member State of destination or from being kept on that market; or
requiring the withdrawal or recall of those goods from that market (4)
distributor — any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the producer or the importer, who makes goods available on the market in a Member State (11)
economic operator — any of the following in relation to goods: the producer, the authorised representative, the importer or the distributor (12)
end user — any natural or legal person residing or established in the Union, to whom the goods have been made available or are being made available, either as a consumer outside of any trade, business, craft or profession or as a professional end user in the course of its industrial or professional activities (13)
importer — any natural or legal person established within the Union who makes goods from a third country available on the Union market for the first time (10)
lawfully marketed in another Member State — that goods or goods of that type comply with the relevant rules applicable in that Member State or are not subject to any such rules in that Member State, and are made available to end users in that Member State (1)
legitimate public interest grounds — any of the grounds set out in Article 36 TFEU or any other overriding reasons of public interest (14)
making available on the market — any supply of goods for distribution, consumption or use on the market within the territory of a Member State in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge (2)
prior authorisation procedure — an administrative procedure under the law of a Member State whereby the competent authority of that Member State is required, on the basis of an application by an economic operator, to give its formal approval before goods may be made available on the market in that Member State (7)
producer — any natural or legal person who manufactures goods or has goods designed or manufactured, or who produces goods which were not the result of a manufacturing process, including agricultural products, and markets them under that person's name or trademark,
any natural or legal person who modifies goods already lawfully marketed in a Member State in a way that might affect compliance with the relevant rules applicable in that Member State, or
any other natural or legal person who, by putting its name, trademark or other distinguishing feature on goods or on the documents that accompany those goods, presents itself as the producer of those goods (8)
recall — any measure aimed at achieving the return of goods that have already been made available to the end user (6)
restricting market access — imposing conditions to be fulfilled before goods can be made available on the market in the Member State of destination, or conditions for keeping goods on that market, which in either case require the modification of one or more of the characteristics of those goods, as referred to in point (c)(i) of Article 2(2), or require the performance of additional testing (3)
withdrawal — any measure aimed at preventing goods in the supply chain from being made available on the market (5)