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For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply: ‘equipment’ means any apparatus or fixed installation; ‘apparatus’ means any finished appliance or combination thereof made available on the market as a single functional unit, intended for the end-user and liable to generate electromagnetic disturbance, or the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance; ‘fixed installation’ means a particular combination of several types of apparatus and, where applicable, other devices, which are assembled, installed and intended to be used permanently at a predefined location; ‘electromagnetic compatibility’ means the ability of equipment to function satisfactorily in its electromagnetic environment without introducing intolerable electromagnetic disturbances to other equipment in that environment; ‘electromagnetic disturbance’ means any electromagnetic phenomenon which may degrade the performance of equipment; an electromagnetic disturbance may be electromagnetic noise, an unwanted signal or a change in the propagation medium itself; ‘immunity’ means the ability of equipment to perform as intended without degradation in the presence of an electromagnetic disturbance; ‘safety purposes’ means the purposes of safeguarding human life or property; ‘electromagnetic environment’ means all electromagnetic phenomena observable in a given location; ‘making available on the market’ means any supply of apparatus for distribution, consumption or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge; ‘placing on the market’ means the first making available of apparatus on the Union market; ‘manufacturer’ means any natural or legal person who manufactures apparatus or has apparatus designed or manufactured, and markets that apparatus under his name or trade mark; ‘authorised representative’ means 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; ‘importer’ means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places apparatus from a third country on the Union market; ‘distributor’ means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes apparatus available on the market; ‘economic operators’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor; ‘technical specification’ means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by the equipment; ‘harmonised standard’ means harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012; ‘accreditation’ means accreditation as defined in point 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008; ‘national accreditation body’ means national accreditation body as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008; ‘conformity assessment’ means the process demonstrating whether the essential requirements of this Directive relating to an apparatus have been fulfilled; ‘conformity assessment body’ means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection; ‘recall’ means any measure aimed at achieving the return of apparatus that has already been made available to the end-user; ‘withdrawal’ means any measure aimed at preventing apparatus in the supply chain from being made available on the market; ‘Union harmonisation legislation’ means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products; ‘CE marking’ means a marking by which the manufacturer indicates that the apparatus is in conformity with the applicable requirements set out in Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-29 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.