S.L. 427.29 Art. 4Definitions.

For the purpose of these regulations, the following definitions shall apply:

"accreditation" means accreditation as defined in point 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008; "assemblies" means several pieces of pressure equipment assembled by a manufacturer to constitute an integrated and functional whole; "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; "CE marking" means a marking by which the manufacturer indicates that the pressure equipment or assembly is in conformity with the applicable requirements set out in Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing;

"common specifications" means a set of technical requirements established to ensure compliance with regulatory obligations when harmonised standards are unavailable or insufficient; "conformity assessment body" means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection; "conformity assessment" means the process demonstrating whether the essential safety requirements of these regulations relating to pressure equipment or assemblies have been fulfilled; "crisis-relevant goods" means goods that are non-substitutable, non-diversifiable or indispensable in the maintenance of vital societal functions or economic activities in order to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market and its supply chains and that are considered essential for responding to a crisis during the internal market emergency mode that may be activated in accordance with Article 18(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 with respect to equipment covered by these regulations; "distributor" means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes pressure equipment or assemblies available on the market; "economic operators" means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor; "the Directive" means European Parliament and Council Directive 2014/68/EU on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of Pressure Equipment; "European approval for materials" means a technical document defining the characteristics of materials intended for repeated use in the manufacture of pressure equipment which are not covered by any harmonised standard;

"fluids" means gases, liquids and vapours in pure phase as well as mixtures thereof; fluids may contain a suspension of solids;

"harmonised standard" means harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;

"implementing act" means a non-legislative act adopted by the European Commission for the purpose of providing rules and measures necessary for the implementation of these regulations and which are essential to provide for crisis situations during an internal market emergency mode activated in accordance with Article 18(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 with respect to equipment covered by these regulations; "importer" means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places pressure equipment or assemblies from a third country on the Union market;

"internal market emergency mode" means internal market emergency mode as defined in point (3) of Article 3 of Regulation

(EU) 2024/2747; "making available on the market" means any supply of pressure equipment or assemblies for distribution or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;

"manufacturer" means any natural or legal person who manufactures pressure equipment or an assembly or has such equipment or assembly designed or manufactured, and markets that pressure equipment or assembly under his name or trademark or uses it for his own purposes; "maximum allowable pressure PS" means the maximum pressure for which the equipment is designed, as specified by the manufacturer, and defined at a location specified by him, being either the connection of protective and, or limiting devices, or the top of equipment or, if not appropriate, any point specified; "maximum/minimum allowable temperature TS" means the maximum/minimum temperatures for which the equipment is designed, as specified by the manufacturer; "national accreditation body" means national accreditation body as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008; "nominal size (DN)" means a numerical designation of size which is common to all components in a piping system other than components indicated by outside diameters or by thread size; it is a convenient round number for reference purposes and is only loosely related to manufacturing dimensions; the nominal size is designated by DN followed by a number;

"notified body" means a conformity assessment body which has been officially designated by its national authority and notified to the Commission to carry out the procedures for conformity assessment of certain products in accordance with regulation 16 before being placed on the market;

"permanent joints" means joints which cannot be disconnected except by destructive methods;

"piping" means piping components intended for the transport of fluids, when connected together for integration into a pressure system; piping includes in particular a pipe or system of pipes, tubing, fittings, expansion joints, hoses, or other pressure-bearing components as appropriate; heat exchangers consisting of pipes for the purpose of cooling or heating air shall be considered as piping; "placing on the market" means the first making available of pressure equipment or assemblies on the Union market; "pressure accessories" means devices with an operational function and having pressure-bearing housings; "pressure" means pressure relative to atmospheric pressure, i.e. gauge pressure. As a consequence, vacuum is designated by a negative value; "putting into service" means the first use of pressure equipment or an assembly by its user; "recall" means any measure aimed at achieving the return of pressure equipment or assemblies that have already been made available to consumers or other users;

"Regulation (EU) 2024/2747" means Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2024 establishing a framework of measures related to an internal market emergency and to the resilience of the internal market and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2679/98 (Internal Market Emergency and Resilience Act); "safety accessories" means devices designed to protect pressure equipment against the allowable limits being exceeded, including devices for direct pressure limitation, such as safety valves, bursting disc safety devices, buckling rods, controlled safety pressure relief systems (CSPRS), and limiting devices, which either activate the means for correction or provide for shutdown or shutdown and lockout, such as pressure switches or temperature switches or fluid level switches and safety related measurement control and regulation (SRMCR) devices; "technical specification" means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by pressure equipment or assemblies; "Union harmonisation legislation" means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products; "volume (V)" means the internal volume of a chamber, including the volume of nozzles to the first connection or weld and excluding the volume of permanent internal parts;

"withdrawal" means any measure aimed at preventing pressure equipment or assemblies in the supply chain from being made available on the market; ‘vessel" means a housing designed and built to contain fluids under pressure including its direct attachments up to the coupling point connecting it to other equipment; a vessel may be composed of more than one chamber.