Article 3 Definitions

‘reference CO2 emissions’ means the average of the specific CO2 emissions in the reference period of all new heavy-duty vehicles in each of the vehicle sub-groups, determined in accordance with point 3 of Annex I;

‘specific CO2 emissions’ means the CO2 emissions of an individual heavy-duty vehicle determined in accordance with point 2.1 of Annex I;

‘reporting period of the year Y’ means the period from 1 July of the year Y to 30 June of the year Y+1;

‘reporting period’ means the period from 1 July of a given year to 30 June of the following year;

‘reference period’ means the reporting period of a given year with respect to which the regulatory CO2 emissions reduction obligations for a certain vehicle sub-group are specified under this Regulation;

‘average specific CO2 emissions’ means the average of the specific CO2 emissions of a manufacturer’s new heavy-duty vehicles in a given reporting period determined in accordance with point 2.7 of Annex I;

‘specific CO2 emissions target’ means the CO2 emissions target of an individual manufacturer, determined annually for the preceding reporting period in accordance with point 4 of Annex I;

‘rigid lorry’ means a lorry that is not designed or constructed for the towing of a semi-trailer;

‘tractor’ means a tractor unit that is designed and constructed exclusively or principally to tow semi-trailers;

‘vehicle sub-group’ means a grouping of vehicles as defined in point 1 of Annex I, that are characterised by a common and distinctive set of technical criteria relevant for determining the CO2 emissions and fuel consumption of those vehicles;

‘vocational vehicle’ means a heavy-duty vehicle intended to be used for specific duties which, according to the information in its certificate of conformity, as reported by Member States, fulfils the criteria laid down in point 1.2 of Annex I;

‘manufacturer’ means the person or body to which the vehicles registered in a given period have been attributed in accordance with Article 7a;

‘reporter’ means an entity which is responsible for the reporting of data to the Commission;

‘zero-emission heavy-duty vehicle’ means any of the following vehicles:

‘low-emission heavy-duty vehicle’ means a heavy-duty vehicle, other than a zero-emission heavy-duty vehicle, with specific CO2 emissions of less than half of the reference CO2 emissions of all vehicles in the vehicle sub-group to which the heavy-duty vehicle belongs, as determined in accordance with point 2.3.4 of Annex I;

‘mission profile’ means a combination of a target speed cycle, a payload value, a body or trailer configuration and other parameters, if applicable, reflecting the specific use of a vehicle, on the basis of which official CO2 emissions and fuel consumption of a heavy-duty vehicle are determined;

‘target speed cycle’ means the description of the vehicle velocity, which the driver wants to reach or to which he is limited by traffic conditions, as a function of the distance covered in a trip;

‘payload’ means the weight of the goods that a vehicle is carrying under different conditions;

‘primary vehicle’ means a primary vehicle as defined in Article 3, point (22), of Regulation (EU) 2017/2400;

‘primary vehicle of a heavy-duty vehicle’ means a primary vehicle, for the simulation of which a generic body is allocated that corresponds to the actual body of the heavy-duty vehicle with regard to its floor (low/high) deck (single/double) configurations and any other parameters as applicable;

‘completed vehicle’ means a completed vehicle as defined in Article 3, point (26), of Regulation (EU) 2018/858;

‘complete vehicle’ means a complete vehicle as defined in Article 3, point (27), of Regulation (EU) 2018/858;

‘off-road vehicle’ means an off-road vehicle as defined in Part A, point 2.1, of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/858;

‘special purpose vehicle’ means a special purpose vehicle as defined in Article 3, point (31), of Regulation (EU) 2018/858;

‘off-road special purpose vehicle’ means an off road special purpose vehicle as defined in Part A, point 2.3.1, of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/858;

‘certificate of conformity’ means a certificate of conformity as defined in Article 3, point (5), of Regulation (EU) 2018/858;

‘public contract’, in the context of public procurement procedures and unless otherwise specified, means a ‘public contract’ as defined in Article 2(1), point (5), of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 4 ), ‘supply, works and service contracts’ as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 5 ), and ‘concessions’ as defined in Article 5, point (1), of Directive 2014/23/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 6 );

‘extra heavy combination lorry’ or ‘EHC lorry’ means a heavy-duty vehicle of category N3 suitable for use in a vehicle combination and meeting all the following design and construction criteria:

undertakings in which the manufacturer has, directly or indirectly:

undertakings which directly or indirectly have, over the manufacturer, the right or powers referred to in point (a);

undertakings in which an undertaking referred to in point (b) has, directly or indirectly, the right or powers referred to in point (a);

undertakings in which the manufacturer together with one or more of the undertakings referred to in point (a), (b) or (c), or in which two or more of the latter undertakings, jointly have the right or powers referred to in point (a);

undertakings in which the right or the powers referred to in point (a) are jointly held by the manufacturer or one or more of its connected undertakings referred to in points (a) to (d) and one or more third parties.