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

1. (a)

   ‘emergency service’ means a service, recognised as such by the F1Secretary 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;

2. (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 F2Secretary of State;

3. (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;

4. (d)

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

5. (e)

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

6. (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);

7. (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;

8. (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;

9. (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;

10. (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;

11. (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;

12. (l)

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

13. (m)

    ‘public mobile wireless communications network’ F4means a communications network used wholly or mainly for the provision of publicly available mobile wireless communications services;

14. (n)

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

15. (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.

16. (p)

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

17. (q)

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