Article 2

For the purposes of this Directive: 1. 'telecommunications administrations' means the administrations or private operating agencies recognized in the Community and providing public telecommunications services; 2. 'terminal equipment' means equipment directly or indirectly connected to the termination of a public telecommunications network to send, process or receive information; 3. 'technical specification' means a specification contained in a document which lays down the characteristics required of a product such as levels of quality, performance, safety or dimensions, including the requirements applicable to the product as regards terminology, symbols, testing and test methods, packaging, marking and labelling; 4. 'international technical specification in telecommunications' means the technical specification of all or some characteristics of a product, recommended by such organizations as the Comité international télégraphique et téléphonique (CCITT) or the CEPT; 5. 'common technical specification' means a technical specification drawn up with a view to uniform application in all Member States of the Community; 6. 'standard' means a technical specification adopted by a recognized standards body for repeated or continuous application, compliance with which is not compulsory; 7. 'international standard' means a standard adopted by a recognized international standards body; 8. 'approved testing laboratory' means a laboratory the conformity of which with the accreditation system established by the CEPT in close cooperation with specialized organizations and any relevant national accreditation organizations has been verified, with particular reference to the relevant ISO guides, by the appropriate Member State or a body recognized as competent by that State and which is approved by that Member State or body recognized as competent for conducting conformity tests on terminal equipment; 9. 'certificate of conformity' means the document certifying that a product or service conforms to given standards or technical specifications; 10. 'type approval of terminal equipment' means the confirmation delivered by the competent authority of a Member State that a particular terminal equipment type is authorized or recognized as suitable to be connected to a particular public telecommunications network; 11. 'conformity specification' means a document giving a precise and full description of the technical characteristics of the relevant terminal equipment (such as safety, technical parameters, functions and procedures and service requirements) together with a precise definition of the tests and test methods enabling the conformity of the terminal equipment with the prescribed technical characteristics to be verified; 12. 'type approval specification' means a specification setting out the full and precise requirements that must be satisfied by terminal equipment to be granted type approval. It includes the conformity specification and also administrative requirements and, where appropriate, requirements concerning quality control operations to be carried out during the manufacture of the equipment; 13. 'common conformity specification' means a conformity specification used in all the Community Member States by the authority competent for testing the conformity of terminal equipment. It also includes, where appropriate, requirements made necessary in a given State by historical network peculiarities or established national provisions concerning the use of radio frequencies; 14. 'common type approval specification' means a type approval specification which is used in all the Community Member States by all the authorities empowered to grant type approval for terminal equipment. It includes the common conformity specification and also administrative requirements and, where appropriate, requirements concerning quality control operations to be carried out during the manufacture of the equipment; 15. 'NET' (Norme européenne de télécommunications) is an approved technical specification recommendation of the CEPT or part or parts thereof which the signatories of the Memorandum of Understanding, established at the meeting of Directors-General of CEPT Administrations, in Copenhagen on 15 November 1985, adopted in accordance with the procedures set down in that Memorandum; 16. 'mutual recognition of the results of conformity tests on terminal equipment' means a situation where, when an approved laboratory or the competent authority in a Member State issues a certificate, accompanied by test data and identification details, stating that a terminal is in conformity with a common conformity specification or a part thereof, that certificate is recognized in the other Member States, so that if the terminal in question is the subject of an application for type approval in another Member State, it no longer has to be subjected to the tests for verifying conformity with that specification, or with the part of that specification concerning the tests carried out; 17. 'essential requirements' means those aspects of common conformity specifications of such importance as to necessitate compliance as a matter of legal obligation for the implementation of the mutual recognition of the results of conformity tests on terminal equipment as an integral part of the type approval procedure. These essential requirements are at present: user safety in so far as this requirement is not covered by Directive 73/23/EEC, safety of employees of public telecommunications network operators in so far as this requirement is not covered by Directive 73/23/EEC, protection of public telecommunications networks from harm, interworking of terminal equipment, in justified cases.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-10 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.