Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions in points (5) ‘authentication’, (12) ‘qualified electronic signature’, (19) ‘trust service provider’, (20) ‘qualified trust service provider’, (27) ‘qualified electronic seal’ and (30) ‘qualified certificate for electronic seal’ of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 and in point (16) ‘distributor’ of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2020/740 shall apply.

The following definitions also apply:

‘EPREL’ or ‘European Product Registry for Energy Labelling’ means the product database established and maintained by the Commission in line with Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1369;

‘verification process’ means the process by which a natural person or legal person provides evidence of identity and of establishment in the Union, entitling them to register products in EPREL;

‘Business Register Identifier’ or ‘Register ID’ means the alphanumerical code assigned by a Member State’s authority, or someone acting on its behalf, to the particular section or office of the business register assigning the business registration number to natural persons or legal persons performing a professional activity, such as business or trade. If the legal person is in the scope of Directive (EU) 2017/1132, such number shall be part of the unique identifier (EUID) referred to in Article 16(1) of the same Directive and in point 9 of the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1042 ( 10 ) ;

‘Business Registration Number’ means the alphanumerical code, attributed by a business register at national level to the legal person or to the natural person performing a professional activity and providing evidence of its identity and its establishment in the Member State where the register is established. If the person is in the scope of Directive (EU) 2017/1132, such number shall be part of the unique identifier (EUID) referred to in Article 16(1) of the same Directive and in point 9 of the Annex to the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1042;

‘verified supplier’ means an EPREL supplier that has successfully completed the supplier verification process in the EPREL compliance system according to Articles 4, 5 and 6;

‘unverified supplier’ means an EPREL supplier that has not yet successfully completed the supplier verification process in the EPREL compliance system, including those not having renewed the qualified electronic seal within the required deadline;

‘EPREL supplier’ means a natural person or legal person in its capacity to act as a supplier for registering product models in the product database;

‘data exchange model’ means an XML model used to define the data structure and semantics of the product data, by means of the XML markup language and which permits the data import of the product model’s parameter values from a supplier’s database to the product database;

‘EPREL compliance system’ means the database and the software for managing its content, accessible via the EPREL compliance website subject to user authentication, enabling suppliers to register both public and compliance data in the product database and also enabling Member State’s market surveillance authorities to perform their activities;

‘EPREL compliance website’ means the website providing access to the product database for compliance verification purposes, requiring user registration and authentication, where only Member State’s market surveillance authorities and Commission staff have access to any public and technical information of registered product models and to the EPREL supplier information;

‘EPREL public system’ means the database and the software for accessing its content, freely accessible via the EPREL public website, enabling visitors to consult the public data of any registered product model since its date of placing on the market;

‘EPREL public website’ means the freely accessible website enabling visitors to consult the public data of any registered product model since its date of placing on the market;

‘API’ or ‘Application Programming Interface’ means a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software to share data;

‘business register’ or ‘trade register’ means a Member State’s national public sector body attributing business registration numbers to natural persons or legal persons performing a professional activity such as business or trade and providing evidence of their establishment in the Member State where the national public sector body is established;

‘GTIN’ or ‘Global Trade Item Number’ means a unique and internationally recognised identifier attributed by the GS1 international organization, used to identify trade items to facilitate accurate identification. GTINs can be encoded as barcode tags, affixed to products or to their packaging, or as Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags;

‘date of placing on the market’ means the date of placing on the market of the first unit of a product model;

‘date of end of placing on the market’ means the date of placing on the market of the last unit of a product model;

‘registered model’ or ‘registered product model’ means a model of a product, whose parameter values have been entered into EPREL. The registered model may not necessarily be publicly visible;

‘EPREL compliance production system’ means a copy of the compliance system, where the latest software versions are installed by the Commission and where suppliers register the real product models before placing them on the market;

‘EPREL compliance acceptance system’ means a system where the latest software versions of the compliance production system are installed by the Commission and where the suppliers can register a dummy supplier and dummy product models for testing purposes. Any new software version is first made available on this system and only made available on the EPREL compliance production system after the relevant test and acceptance period has elapsed;

‘transfer protocol’ means the protocol for electronic communication over the internet to securely exchange information between the computer systems of the supplier and of the Commission;

‘online portal’ means the website giving access to the public part and to the compliance part of EPREL and containing the information set out in point 2 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 and other relevant information on energy efficiency of products ( 11 ) ;

‘NTR’ means the acronym for identification based on an identifier from a national trade register, as in paragraph 5.1.4 of EN 319 412-1.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/994 of 2 April 2024 laying down operational details of the product database established under Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 of the European Parliament and of the Council