For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:

1. (1)

   ‘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;

2. (2)

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

3. (3)

   ‘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;

4. (4)

   ‘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;

5. (5)

   ‘importer’ means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places electrical equipment from a third country on the Union market;

6. (6)

   ‘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;

7. (7)

   ‘economic operators’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;

8. (8)

   ‘technical specification’ means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by an electrical equipment;

9. (9)

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

10. (10)

    ‘conformity assessment’ means the process demonstrating whether the safety objectives referred to in Article 3 and set out in Annex I relating to electrical equipment have been fulfilled;

11. (11)

    ‘recall’ means any measure aimed at achieving the return of electrical equipment that has already been made available to the end-user;

12. (12)

    ‘withdrawal’ means any measure aimed at preventing electrical equipment in the supply chain from being made available on the market;

13. (13)

    ‘Union harmonisation legislation’ means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;

14. (14)

    ‘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.