Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 305/2013Show full title

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

The following definitions shall apply for the purposes of this Regulation:

(a)

‘emergency service’ means a service, recognised as such by the [F1 Secretary of State], that provides immediate and rapid assistance in situations where there is, in particular, a direct risk to life or limb, to individual or public health or safety, to private or public property, or to the environment, in accordance with national legislation;

(b)

‘public safety answering point’ (PSAP) means a physical location where emergency calls are first received under the responsibility of a public authority or a private organisation recognised by the [F2 Secretary of State];

(c)

‘most appropriate PSAP’ means a PSAP defined beforehand by responsible authorities to cover emergency calls from a certain area or for emergency calls of a certain type;

(d)

‘eCall PSAP’ means a most appropriate PSAP defined beforehand by the authorities to first receive and handle the eCalls;

(e)

‘eCall PSAP operator’ means a person in the eCall PSAP receiving and/or handling the emergency calls;

(f)

‘service partner’ means a public or private organisation recognised by national authorities, that has a role in the handling of incidents related to an eCall (e.g. road operator, assistance service);

(g)

‘in-vehicle equipment’ means equipment within the vehicle that provides or has access to the in-vehicle data required to perform the eCall transaction via a public mobile wireless communications network;

(h)

‘eCall’ F3 ... means an in-vehicle emergency call to 112, made either automatically by means of the activation of in-vehicle sensors or manually, which carries a standardised minimum set of data and establishes an audio channel between the vehicle and the eCall PSAP via public mobile wireless communications networks;

(i)

‘eCall transaction’ means the establishment of a mobile wireless communications session across a public wireless communications network and the transmission of a minimum set of data from a vehicle to an eCall PSAP and the establishment of an audio channel between the vehicle and the same eCall PSAP;

(j)

‘minimum set of data’ (MSD) means the information defined by the standard ‘Road transport and traffic telematics — eSafety — eCall minimum set of data (MSD)’ (EN 15722) which is sent to the eCall PSAP;

(k)

‘Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)’ means the alphanumeric code assigned to a vehicle by the manufacturer in order to ensure proper identification of every vehicle, as described in ISO standard 3779;

(l)

‘mobile wireless communications network’ means wireless communications network with homogeneous handover between network access points;

(m)

‘public mobile wireless communications network’ [F4 means a communications network used wholly or mainly for the provision of publicly available mobile wireless communications services];

(n)

‘emergency control centre’ means a facility used by one or more emergency services to handle emergency calls;

(o)

‘raw MSD’ means a representation of the transmitted minimum set of data before being presented in an intelligible way to the eCall PSAP operator.

(p)

[F5 “the GDPR” has the meaning given in section 3(10) of the Data Protection Act 2018;

(q)

“the data protection legislation” has the meaning given by section 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 2(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/246), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in Art. 2(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/246), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Art. 2(h) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/246), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Words in Art. 2(m) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/246), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5 Art. 2(p)(q) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/246), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)