For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) ‘making available on the market’ means any supply of electrical equipment 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;
(2) ‘placing on the market’ means the first making available of electrical equipment on the Union market;
(3) ‘manufacturer’ means any natural or legal person who manufactures electrical equipment or has electrical equipment designed or manufactured, and markets that equipment under his name or trade mark;
(4) ‘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;
(5) ‘importer’ means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places electrical equipment from a third country on the Union market;
(6) ‘distributor’ means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes electrical equipment available on the market;
(7) ‘economic operators’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;
(8) ‘technical specification’ means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by an electrical equipment;
(9) ‘harmonised standard’ means harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;
(10) ‘conformity assessment’ means the process demonstrating whether the safety objectives referred to in Article 3 and set out in Annex I relating to electrical equipment have been fulfilled;
(11) ‘recall’ means any measure aimed at achieving the return of electrical equipment that has already been made available to the end-user;
(12) ‘withdrawal’ means any measure aimed at preventing electrical equipment in the supply chain from being made available on the market;
(13) ‘Union harmonisation legislation’ means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;
(14) ‘CE marking’ means a marking by which the manufacturer indicates that the electrical equipment is in conformity with the applicable requirements set out in Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing;
(15) ‘crisis-relevant goods’ means crisis-relevant goods as defined in Article 3, point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 of the European Parliament and of the Council (
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(16) ‘internal market emergency mode’ means internal market emergency mode as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747.