S.L. 454.15 Art. 2Definitions. S.L. 419.07. Cap. 460.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"accreditation" means accreditation as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) no 765/2008;

"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; "Authority" means the Standards and Metrology Institute of the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority; "CE marking" means a marking by which the manufacturer indicates that the measuring instrument is in conformity with the applicable requirements set out in Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing; "conformity assessment" means the process demonstrating whether the essential requirements of these regulations relating to a measuring instrument have been fulfilled; "conformity assessment body" means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing,

* see regulation 1(2) of these Regulations, as originally promulgated. certification and inspection.

"distributor" means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes a measuring instrument available on the market; "economic operators" means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor; "harmonised standard" means harmonised standard as defined in regulation 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012; "importer" means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places a measuring instrument from a third country on the Union market; "legal metrological control" means the control of the measurement tasks intended for the field of application of a measuring instrument, for reasons of public interest, public health, public safety, public order, protection of the environment, levying of taxes and duties, protection of the consumers and fair trading; "making available on the market" means any supply of a measuring instrument 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 a measuring instrument or has a measuring instrument designed or manufactured, and markets that measuring instrument under his name or trade mark or puts it into use for his own purposes; "measuring instrument" means any device or system with a measurement according to the provisions of these regulations; "Member State" means a Member State of the European Union;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for standards and metrology and includes, to the extent of the authority given, any person authorised by the Minister to act in that behalf for any purpose of these regulations; "National Accreditation Board (Malta)" means the National Accreditation Board (Malta) established in terms of regulation 3 of the National Accreditation Board (Malta) (Establishment)

Regulations; "normative document" means a document containing technical specifications adopted by the International Organisation of Legal * Metrology ; "placing on the market" means the first making available of a measuring instrument on the Union market; "putting into use" means the first use of a measuring instrument intended for the end-user for the purposes for which it was intended;

"recall" means any measure aimed at achieving the return of a

* https://www.oiml.org/en measuring instrument that has already been made available to the end-user; "sub-assembly" means a hardware device, mentioned as such in the instrument-specific schedules that functions independently and makes up a measuring instrument together with other sub-assemblies with which it is compatible, or with a measuring instrument with which it is compatible; "technical specification" means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by a measuring instrument; "the Union" means the European Union as referred to article 2 of the European Union Act; "Union harmonisation legislation" means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products; and "withdrawal" means any measure aimed at preventing a measuring instrument in the supply chain from being made available on the market.