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nanomaterial 2 definitions

Cosmetics Regulation
an insoluble or biopersistant and intentionally manufactured material with one or more external dimensions, or an internal structure, on the scale from 1 to 100 nm
Medical Devices Regulation
a natural, incidental or manufactured material containing particles in an unbound state or as an aggregate or as an agglomerate and where, for 50 % or more of the particles in the number size distribution, one or more external dimensions is in the size range 1-100 nm; Fullerenes, graphene flakes and single-wall carbon nanotubes with one or more external dimensions below 1 nm shall also be deemed to be nanomaterials

national accreditation body 4 definitions

Batteries Regulation
a national accreditation body as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008
CBAM Regulation
a national accreditation body as appointed by each Member State pursuant to Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008
Cybersecurity Act
a national accreditation body as defined in point (11) of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008
Machinery Regulation
a national accreditation body as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008

national authority

Batteries Regulation
an approval authority or any other authority involved in and responsible for market surveillance in a Member State in respect of batteries

national bureau

Solvency II Directive
a national insurers’ bureau as defined in Article 1(3) of Directive 72/166/EEC

national competent authority 3 definitions

AI Act
a notifying authority or a market surveillance authority; as regards AI systems put into service or used by Union institutions, agencies, offices and bodies, references to national competent authorities or market surveillance authorities in this Regulation shall be construed as references to the European Data Protection Supervisor
SRM Regulation
any national competent authority as defined in Article 2(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013
SSM Regulation
a national competent authority designated by a participating Member State in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms (13) and Directive 2013/36/EU

national court

Digital Markets Act
a court or tribunal of a Member State within the meaning of Article 267 TFEU.

national cybersecurity certification scheme

Cybersecurity Act
a comprehensive set of rules, technical requirements, standards and procedures developed and adopted by a national public authority and that apply to the certification or conformity assessment of ICT products, ICT services and ICT processes falling under the scope of the specific scheme

national cybersecurity strategy

NIS2 Directive
a coherent framework of a Member State providing strategic objectives and priorities in the area of cybersecurity and the governance to achieve them in that Member State

national designated authority

SSM Regulation
a designated authority of a participating Member State, within the meaning of the relevant Union law

national guarantee fund

Solvency II Directive
the body referred to in Article 1(4) of Directive 84/5/EEC

national inventory system 2 definitions

Energy Union Governance Regulation
a system of institutional, legal and procedural arrangements established within a Member State for estimating anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases, and for reporting and archiving inventory information
Monitoring Mechanism Regulation
a system of institutional, legal and procedural arrangements established within a Member State for estimating anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, and for reporting and archiving inventory information in accordance with Decision 19/CMP.1 or other relevant decisions of UNFCCC or Kyoto Protocol bodies

national programme

Critical Raw Materials Act
a national programme or a compiled set of programmes, covering the entire territory, prepared and adopted by relevant national or regional authorities

national registry

Monitoring Mechanism Regulation
a registry in the form of a standardised electronic database which includes data on the issue, holding, transfer, acquisition, cancellation, retirement, carry-over, replacement or change of expiry date, as relevant, of AAUs, RMUs, ERUs, CERs, tCERs and lCERs

national regulatory authority 4 definitions

Framework Directive (electronic communications)
the body or bodies charged by a Member State with any of the regulatory tasks assigned in this Directive and the Specific Directives
Market Abuse Regulation
national regulatory authority as defined in point (10) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011
REMIT Regulation
a national regulatory authority designated in accordance with Article 35(1) of Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity (10) or Article 39(1) of Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas (11)
TEN-E Regulation
a national regulatory authority designated in accordance with Article 35(1) of Directive 2009/72/EC or Article 39(1) of Directive 2009/73/EC

national resolution authority

SRM Regulation
an authority designated by a participating Member State in accordance with Article 3 of Directive 2014/59/EU

national standard 2 definitions

European Standardisation Regulation
a standard adopted by a national standardisation body
General Product Safety Regulation
a national standard as defined in Article 2, point (1), point (d) of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012

national standardisation body

European Standardisation Regulation
a body notified to the Commission by a Member State in accordance with Article 27 of this Regulation.

national strategy on the security of network and information systems 2 definitions

Cybersecurity Act
a national strategy on the security of network and information systems as defined in point (3) of Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2016/1148
NIS Directive
a framework providing strategic objectives and priorities on the security of network and information systems at national level

national supervisory authority

EU Institutions Data Protection Regulation
an independent public authority which is established by a Member State pursuant to Article 51 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or pursuant to Article 41 of Directive (EU) 2016/680

native tree species

Nature Restoration Law
a tree species occurring within its natural range, past or present, and dispersal potential, i.e. within the range it occupies naturally or could occupy without direct or indirect introduction or care by humans

natural disturbances

LULUCF Regulation
any non-anthropogenic events or circumstances that cause significant emissions in forests and the occurrence of which is beyond the control of the relevant Member State, and the effects of which the Member State is objectively unable to significantly limit, even after their occurrence, on emissions

natural gas undertaking

Gas Directive
a natural or legal person carrying out at least one of the following functions: production, transmission, distribution, supply, purchase or storage of natural gas, including LNG, which is responsible for the commercial, technical and/or maintenance tasks related to those functions, but shall not include final customers

naturally regenerating forest

Deforestation Regulation
forest predominantly composed of trees established through natural regeneration; it includes any of the following:

near miss 2 definitions

Cyber Resilience Act
a near miss as defined in Article 6, point (5), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555
NIS2 Directive
an event that could have compromised the availability, authenticity, integrity or confidentiality of stored, transmitted or processed data or of the services offered by, or accessible via, network and information systems, but that was successfully prevented from materialising or that did not materialise

near real-time

Electricity Market Directive (recast)
in the context of smart metering, a short time period, usually down to seconds or up to the imbalance settlement period in the national market

nearly zero-energy building

Energy Union Governance Regulation
a nearly zero-energy building as defined in point (2) of Article 2 of Directive 2010/31/EU

negative predictive value

In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation
the ability of a device to separate true negative results from false negative results for a given attribute in a given population

negligible risk

Deforestation Regulation
the level of risk that applies to relevant commodities and relevant products, where, on the basis of a full assessment of product-specific and general information, and, where necessary, of the application of the appropriate mitigation measures, those commodities or products show no cause for concern as being not in compliance with Article 3, point (a) or (b)

net turnover

Accounting Directive
the amounts derived from the sale of products and the provision of services after deducting sales rebates and value added tax and other taxes directly linked to turnover

net-zero Industrial Partnerships

Net-Zero Industry Act
a commitment between the Union and a third country to increase cooperation related to net-zero technologies that is established through a non-binding instrument setting out concrete actions of mutual interest

net-zero regulatory sandbox

Net-Zero Industry Act
a scheme that enables undertakings to test innovative net-zero technologies and other innovative technologies in a controlled real-world environment, under a specific plan, developed and monitored by a competent authority

net-zero strategic project

Net-Zero Industry Act
a net-zero technology manufacturing project, a CO2 capture project, a CO2 storage project or a CO2 transport infrastructure project located in the Union that a Member State has recognised as a net-zero strategic project pursuant to Articles 13 and 14

net-zero technologies

Net-Zero Industry Act
the technologies listed in Article 4 where they are final products, specific components or specific machinery primarily used for the production of those products

net-zero technology manufacturing project

Net-Zero Industry Act
a planned commercial facility or an extension or repurposing of an existing facility to manufacture net-zero technologies, or an energy-intensive industry decarbonisation project

netting arrangement

BRRD
an arrangement under which a number of claims or obligations can be converted into a single net claim, including close-out netting arrangements under which, on the occurrence of an enforcement event (however or wherever defined) the obligations of the parties are accelerated so as to become immediately due or are terminated, and in either case are converted into or replaced by a single net claim, including ‘close-out netting provisions’ as defined in point (n)(i) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2002/47/EC and ‘netting’ as defined in point (k) of Article 2 of Directive 98/26/EC

netting set

CRR
a group of transactions between an institution and a single counterparty that is subject to a legally enforceable bilateral netting arrangement that is recognised under Section 7 and Chapter 4. Each transaction that is not subject to a legally enforceable bilateral netting arrangement which is recognised under Section 7 shall be treated as its own netting set for the purposes of this Chapter. Under the Internal Model Method set out in Section 6, all netting sets with a single counterparty may be treated as a single netting set if negative simulated market values of the individual netting sets are set to 0 in the estimation of expected exposure (hereinafter referred to as ‧EE‧)

network

Single European Railway Area Directive
the entire railway infrastructure managed by an infrastructure manager

network and information system 2 definitions

Cybersecurity Act
a network and information system as defined in point (1) of Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2016/1148
DORA
a network and information system as defined in Article 6, point 1, of Directive (EU) 2022/2555

network statement

Single European Railway Area Directive
the statement which sets out in detail the general rules, deadlines, procedures and criteria for charging and capacity-allocation schemes, including such other information as is required to enable applications for infrastructure capacity

network termination point

European Electronic Communications Code
the physical point at which an end-user is provided with access to a public electronic communications network, and which, in the case of networks involving switching or routing, is identified by means of a specific network address, which may be linked to an end-user’s number or name

new entrant

EU ETS Directive
any installation carrying out one or more of the activities indicated in Annex I, which has obtained a greenhouse gas emissions permit or an update of its greenhouse gas emissions permit because of a change in the nature or functioning or an extension of the installation, subsequent to the notification to the Commission of the national allocation plan

new infrastructure

Gas Directive
an infrastructure not completed by 4 August 2003

new interconnector 2 definitions

Electricity Cross-Border Access Regulation (2003)
an interconnector not completed by the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
Electricity Regulation (recast)
an interconnector not completed by 4 August 2003

next-generation chips

Chips Act
chips that go beyond the state of the art in offering significant improvements in functional performance, computing power or energy efficiency as well as other significant energy and environmental gains

next-generation semiconductor technologies

Chips Act
semiconductor technologies that go beyond the state of the art in offering significant improvements in functional performance, computing power or energy efficiency as well as other significant energy and environmental gains

nomadic device

ITS Directive
a portable communication or information device that can be brought inside the vehicle to support the driving task and/or the transport operations

nominated ECAI

CRR
an ECAI nominated by an institution

non-clinical assessment

Health Technology Assessment Regulation
the part of an HTA based on the non-clinical domains of HTA of the cost and economic evaluation of a health technology, and the ethical, organisational, social and legal aspects related to its use

non-compliance

Organic Farming Regulation
non-compliance with this Regulation or non-compliance with the delegated or implementing acts adopted in accordance with this Regulation

non-compliant products

Deforestation Regulation
relevant products that do not comply with Article 3

Non-credit institution

Mortgage Credit Directive
any creditor that is not a credit institution.

non-equity securities

Prospectus Regulation
all securities that are not equity securities

non-financial counterparty 2 definitions

EMIR
an undertaking established in the Union other than the entities referred to in points (1) and (8)
SFTR
an undertaking established in the Union or in a third country other than the entities referred to in point (3)

non-financial mixed activity holding company

Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR)
an undertaking, other than a financial holding company or a mixed financial holding company, which is not the subsidiary of another undertaking, the subsidiaries of which include at least one obliged entity as referred to in Article 3, point (3)

non-food cellulosic material

Renewable Energy Directive (recast)
feedstock mainly composed of cellulose and hemicellulose, and having a lower lignin content than ligno-cellulosic material, including food and feed crop residues, such as straw, stover, husks and shells; grassy energy crops with a low starch content, such as ryegrass, switchgrass, miscanthus, giant cane; cover crops before and after main crops; ley crops; industrial residues, including from food and feed crops after vegetal oils, sugars, starches and protein have been extracted; and material from biowaste, where ley and cover crops are understood to be temporary, short-term sown pastures comprising grass-legume mixture with a low starch content to obtain fodder for livestock and improve soil fertility for obtaining higher yields of arable main crops

non-frequency ancillary service 2 definitions

Electricity Market Directive (recast)
a service used by a transmission system operator or distribution system operator for steady state voltage control, fast reactive current injections, inertia for local grid stability, short-circuit current, black start capability and island operation capability
Electricity Regulation (recast)
non-frequency ancillary service as defined in point (49) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944

non-geographic number

European Electronic Communications Code
a number from the national numbering plan that is not a geographic number, such as mobile, freephone and premium-rate numbers

non-geographic numbers

Universal Service Directive
a number from the national numbering plan that is not a geographic number. It includes inter alia mobile, freephone and premium rate numbers.

non-hazardous waste

Landfill Directive
waste which is not covered by paragraph (c)

non-household customer 2 definitions

Electricity Market Directive (recast)
a natural or legal person who purchases electricity that is not for own household use, including producers, industrial customers, small and medium-sized enterprises, businesses and wholesale customers
Gas Directive
a customer purchasing natural gas which is not for his own household use

Non-interventional study

Clinical Trials Regulation
a clinical study other than a clinical trial

non-market-based measure

Electricity Risk-Preparedness Regulation
any supply- or demand-side measure that deviates from market rules or commercial agreements, the purpose of which is to mitigate an electricity crisis

non-operated assets

Methane Regulation
assets which are not under the operational control of the operator

non-organic production unit

Organic Farming Regulation
a production unit which is not managed in compliance with the requirements applicable to organic production

non-personal data 4 definitions

AI Act
data other than personal data as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2016/679
Data Act
data other than personal data
Data Governance Act
data other than personal data
Digital Markets Act
data other than personal data

non-rechargeable battery

Batteries Regulation
a battery that is not designed to be electrically recharged

non-selected obliged entity

AMLA Regulation
a credit institution, a financial institution, or a group of credit institutions or financial institutions at the highest level of consolidation in the Union in accordance with applicable accounting standards, other than a selected obliged entity

non-significant benchmark

Benchmarks Regulation
a benchmark that does not fulfil the conditions laid down in Articles 20(1) and 24(1)

non-sophisticated investor

Crowdfunding Regulation
an investor who is not a sophisticated investor

non-viable

Medical Devices Regulation
having no potential for metabolism or multiplication

Normal clinical practice

Clinical Trials Regulation
the treatment regime typically followed to treat, prevent, or diagnose a disease or a disorder

normal insolvency proceedings

BRRD
collective insolvency proceedings which entail the partial or total divestment of a debtor and the appointment of a liquidator or an administrator normally applicable to institutions under national law and either specific to those institutions or generally applicable to any natural or legal person

notified body 7 definitions

AI Act
a conformity assessment body notified in accordance with this Regulation and other relevant Union harmonisation legislation
Batteries Regulation
a conformity assessment body that has been notified in accordance with Chapter V
Cyber Resilience Act
a conformity assessment body designated in accordance with Article 43 and other relevant Union harmonisation legislation
Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
a conformity assessment body notified in accordance with Chapter IX
In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation
a conformity assessment body designated in accordance with this Regulation
Machinery Regulation
a conformity assessment body notified in accordance with this Regulation
Medical Devices Regulation
a conformity assessment body designated in accordance with this Regulation

notifying authority 2 definitions

AI Act
the national authority responsible for setting up and carrying out the necessary procedures for the assessment, designation and notification of conformity assessment bodies and for their monitoring
Cyber Resilience Act
the national authority responsible for setting up and carrying out the necessary procedures for the assessment, designation and notification of conformity assessment bodies and for their monitoring

novel food

Novel Foods Regulation
any food that was not used for human consumption to a significant degree within the Union before 15 May 1997, irrespective of the dates of accession of Member States to the Union, and that falls under at least one of the following categories:

number-based interpersonal communications service

European Electronic Communications Code
an interpersonal communications service which connects with publicly assigned numbering resources, namely, a number or numbers in national or international numbering plans, or which enables communication with a number or numbers in national or international numbering plans

number-independent interpersonal communications service 2 definitions

Digital Markets Act
a number-independent interpersonal communications service as defined in Article 2, point (7), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972
European Electronic Communications Code
an interpersonal communications service which does not connect with publicly assigned numbering resources, namely, a number or numbers in national or international numbering plans, or which does not enable communication with a number or numbers in national or international numbering plans

nursery

Organic Farming Regulation
a place where an intermediate aquaculture production system is applied between the hatchery and grow-out stages. The nursery stage is completed within the first third of the production cycle, with the exception of species undergoing a smoltification process

nutrient

Food Information to Consumers Regulation
protein, carbohydrate, fat, fibre, sodium, vitamins and minerals listed in point 1 of Part A of Annex XIII to this Regulation, and substances which belong to or are components of one of those categories