S.L. 427.1 Art. 4Definitions.

For the purposes 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;

"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 vessel 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 a vessel 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 pursuant to Article 18(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 with respect to vessels covered by these regulations; "distributor" means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes a vessel 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 point (c) of point 1 of Article 2 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 pursuant to Article 18(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 with respect to vessels covered by these regulations; "importer" means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places a vessel from a third country on the Union market; "internal market emergency mode" means internal market emergency mode as defined in sub-article (3) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747;

"making available on the market" means any supply of a vessel 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 vessel or has a vessel designed or manufactured, and markets that vessel under his name or trade mark;

"national accreditation body" means national accreditation body as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;

"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 15 before being placed on the market;

"placing on the market" means the first making available of a vessel on the Union market;

"recall" means any measure aimed at achieving the return of a vessel that has already been made available to the end- user;

"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); "technical specification" means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by a vessel; "Technical Regulations Division" or "TRD" means the Technical Regulations Division established under Part VI of the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority Act;

"Union harmonisation legislation" means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of vessels;

"withdrawal" means any measure aimed at preventing a vessel in the supply chain from being made available on the market.