Definitions

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

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

‘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 Member State;

‘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;

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

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

‘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);

‘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;

‘eCall’ (referred to in Directive 2010/40/EU as ‘interoperable EU-wide eCall’) 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;

‘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;

‘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;

‘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;

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

‘public mobile wireless communications network’ means mobile wireless communications network available to the public in accordance with Directive 2002/22/EC and with Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 7 ) ;

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

‘raw MSD’ means a representation of the transmitted minimum set of data before being presented in an intelligible way to the eCall PSAP operator.

COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) No 305/2013 of 26 November 2012 supplementing Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the harmonised provision for an interoperable EU-wide eCall