S.L. 427.41 Art. 3Definitions.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"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 European 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 radio equipment 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 radio equipment have been fulfilled;

"conformity assessment body" means a body that performs conformity assessment activities;

* See regulation 1(3) of these Regulations as originally promulgated. "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;

"distributor" means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes radio equipment available on the market; "economic operators" means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor; "electromagnetic disturbance" means electromagnetic disturbance as defined in point 5 of Article 3(1) of Directive 2014/ 30/EU; "harmful interference" means harmful interference as defined in point (r) of Article 2 of Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the European Council;

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

"importer" means any natural or legal person established within the European Union who places radio equipment from a third country on the European Union market; "internal market emergency mode" shall have the same meaning assigned to it by point (3) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747; "making available on the market" means any supply of radio 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;

"manufacturer" means any natural or legal person who manufactures radio equipment or has radio equipment designed or manufactured, and markets that equipment under his name or trade mark; "MCA" means the Malta Communications Authority as established by the Malta Communications Authority Act;

"MCCAA" means the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority as established by the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Act; "MSD" means the Market Surveillance Directorate within the TRD; "national accreditation body" means national accreditation body as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008; "notified bodies" means conformity assessment bodies designated by a Member State to assess the conformity of certain products before being placed on the market;

"placing on the market" means the first making available of radio equipment on the European Union market; "putting into service" means the first use of radio equipment in the European Union by its end-user; "radio communication" means communication by means of radio waves; "radiodetermination" means the determination of the position, velocity and, or other characteristics of an object, or the obtaining of information relating to those parameters, by means of the propagation properties of radio waves;

"radio equipment" means an electrical or electronic product, which intentionally emits and, or receives radio waves for the purpose of radio communication and, or radiodetermination, or an electrical or electronic product which must be completed with an accessory, such as antenna, so as to intentionally emit and, or receive radio waves for the purpose of radio communication and, or radiodetermination; "radio equipment class" means a class identifying particular categories of radio equipment which, under these regulations, are considered similar and those radio interfaces for which the radio equipment is designed; "radio interface" means the specification of the regulated use of radio spectrum; "radio waves" means electromagnetic waves of frequencies lower than3 000 GHz, propagated in space without artificial guide; "recall" means any measure aimed at achieving the return of radio equipment that has already been made available to the end-user; "Regulation (EU) 2016/679 means Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation); 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 radio equipment; "TRD" means the Technical Regulations Division of the MCCAA established by the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Act; "Union harmonisation legislation" means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products; "withdrawal" means any measure aimed at preventing radio equipment in the supply chain from being made available on the market.