S.L. 427.34 Art. 3Interpretation.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"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; "the Authority" means the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority established by article 3 of the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority Act;

"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; "common specifications" means a set of technical requirements established to ensure compliance with regulatory obligations when harmonised standards are unavailable or insufficient;

"conformity assessment" means the process demonstrating whether the safety objectives referred to in regulation 5 and set out in Schedule I relating to electrical equipment 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

*See regulation 1(3). market emergency mode that may be activated pursuant to 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 electrical equipment 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 paragraph (c) of point 1 of Article 2, "a European standard adopted on the basis of a request made by the Commission for the application of Union harmonisation legislation" of Regulation EU. No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 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 electrical equipment 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 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; "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;

"MSD" means the Market Surveillance Directorate within the TRD;

"placing on the market" means the first making available of electrical equipment on the Union market;

"recall" means any measure aimed at achieving the return of electrical equipment 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 an electrical equipment; "TRD" means the Technical Regulations Division within the Authority; "Union harmonisation legislation" means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products; "withdrawal" means any measure aimed at preventing electrical equipment in the supply chain from being made available on the market.