PART 1PRELIMINARY

Interpretation2.

(1)

In these Regulations—

“active electrical energy meter” means a device which measures the active electrical energy consumed in a circuit;

“authorised representative” means a person who is established in a member State and is authorised by a manufacturer, in writing, to act on his behalf;

“CE marking” means the CE marking referred to in regulation 12;

“the Commission” means the European Commission;

“conformity assessment procedure” means any procedure referred to in regulation 6;

“the Directive” means Directive 2004/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31st March 2004 on measuring instruments M1;

“enforcement authority” means any person who is, pursuant to regulation 14, authorised to enforce these Regulations;

“enforcement notice” means a notice served in accordance with regulation 17(2);

“enforcement officer” means a person appointed by an enforcement authority to act on its behalf to enforce these Regulations;

“essential requirements” means the requirements set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1;

“GEMA” means the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority;

“harmonised standard” means a technical specification adopted by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENELEC) or the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) or jointly by two or all of these organisations, at the request of the Commission pursuant to Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22nd June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society Services M2, as amended by Directive 98/48/EC M3, and prepared in accordance with the General Guidelines agreed between the Commission and one or more of CEN, CENELEC and ETSI;

“in writing” includes text that is—

(a)

transmitted by electronic means;

(b)

received in legible form; and

(c)

capable of being used for subsequent reference;

“M marking” means the M marking referred to in regulation 12;

“manufacturer” means a person responsible for the conformity of a relevant instrument with the essential requirements with a view to either placing it on the market under his own name or putting it into use for his own purposes, or both;

“NIAER” means the Northern Ireland Authority for Energy Regulation;

“normative document” means a document containing technical specifications adopted by the Organisation Internationale de Métrologie Légale, subject to the procedure stipulated in Article 16.1, the reference of which is published by the Commission in the Official Journal of the European Union pursuant to Article 16.1(b);

“notified body” means—

(a)

the Secretary of State; or

(b)

a United Kingdom notified body; and

(c)

for the purposes of regulations 4(1)(c), 15(6) and 17(1)(b), a person designated by another member State,

who has been notified to the Commission and the other member States pursuant to Article 11(1);

“notified body criteria” means the criteria set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2;

“place on the market” means making available for the first time in a member State a relevant instrument intended for an end user, whether for reward or free of charge;

“put into use” means the first use of a relevant instrument intended for the end user for the purposes for which it was intended;

“relevant instrument” must be construed in accordance with regulation 3;

“relevant national standard” means a standard applicable to a relevant instrument—

(a)

implementing a harmonised standard that has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union C series; and

(b)

the reference of which is published—

  1. (i)

    in the United Kingdom by the Secretary of State; or

  2. (ii)

    in another member State by the competent authority pursuant to the third sub-paragraph of Article 13.1;

“relevant normative document” means a normative document applicable to a relevant instrument, the reference of which is published—

(a)

in the United Kingdom by the Secretary of State; or

(b)

in another member State by the competent authority pursuant to the third sub-paragraph of Article 13.2; and

“United Kingdom notified body” means a person designated under regulation 7.

(2)

In these Regulations, a reference to a member State includes Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein M4.

(3)

References in these Regulations to an Article, Annex or a part of an Annex are references to an Article, Annex, or part of an Annex to the Directive.