Article 4

For the purposes of this Regulation:

  1. (a)

    ‘repeatability limit’: shall be the value less than or equal to which the absolute difference between two test results obtained under the repeatability conditions (same operator, same apparatus, same laboratory and a short interval of time) may be expected to be with a probability of 95 % {ISO 3534-1};

  2. (b)

    ‘reproducibility limit’: shall be the value less than or equal to which the absolute difference between two test results obtained under the reproducibility conditions (different operators, different apparatus and different laboratories), may be expected to be with a probability of 95 % {ISO 3534-1};

  3. (c)

    ‘accuracy’: shall be the closeness of agreement between a test result and the accepted reference value {ISO 3534-1}.

  4. (d)

    F1‘Regulation 110/2008’: means Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of spirit drinks.