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

1. (a)
   ‘trans-European road network’ means the road network as defined in Section 2 of Annex I to Decision No 661/2010/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council7 with the exclusion of urban nodes;
2. (b)

   ‘temporary slippery road’ means any unforeseen condition of the road surface which makes it slippery for a certain amount of time, causing low adherence of the vehicle to the road;

3. (c)

   ‘animal, people, obstacles, debris on the road’ means any situation where animals, debris, obstacles or people are positioned on the road where one would not expect to find them so that an emergency manoeuvre might be required to avoid them;

4. (d)

   ‘unprotected accident area’ means the area where an accident has occurred and which has not yet been secured by the competent authority;

5. (e)

   ‘short-term road works’ means any temporary road works that are carried out on the road or on the side of the road and which are indicated only by minimum signing because of the short-term nature of these works;

6. (f)

   ‘reduced visibility’ means visibility affected by any condition that reduces the sight range of drivers and which might affect safe driving;

7. (g)

   ‘wrong-way driver’ means a vehicle travelling on the wrong side of a divided carriageway against the oncoming traffic;

8. (h)

   ‘unmanaged blockage of a road’ means any blockage of a road, partial or total, which has not been adequately secured and signposted;

9. (i)

   ‘exceptional weather conditions’ means unusual, severe or unseasonal weather conditions which might affect safe driving;

10. (j)

    ‘user of road safety-related minimum universal traffic information’ means any legal or natural person participating in the provision of road safety-related minimum universal traffic information services, such as public and private road operators, traffic managers, service providers, and broadcasters dedicated to traffic information;

11. (k)

    ‘end user’ means any driver benefiting from road safety-related minimum universal traffic information services;

12. (l)

    ‘road safety-related minimum universal traffic information service’ means a real-time traffic information service that provides an agreed minimum road safety-related content and which can be accessed at minimum effort by a maximum of end users;

13. (m)

    ‘road safety-related traffic data’ means data necessary for providing the road safety-related minimum universal traffic information service and collected via any private or public source;

14. (n)

    ‘road safety-related minimum universal traffic information’ means any extracted, aggregated and processed road safety-related traffic data, offered by public and/or private road operators and/or service providers to end users through any delivery channels;

15. (o)

    ‘access point’ means a digital point of access where the road safety-related traffic data necessary for generating the road safety-related minimum universal traffic information are collected, formatted, and made available for exchange and reuse;

16. (p)

    ‘free of charge’ means the provision of the road safety-related minimum universal traffic information service at no extra cost for the end users at the point of use.