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vacuum cleaner

Critical Raw Materials Act
an appliance that removes soil from a surface to be cleaned by means of an airflow created by underpressure developed within the unit

validation

eIDAS Regulation
the process of verifying and confirming that an electronic signature or a seal is valid.

validation data 2 definitions

AI Act
data used for providing an evaluation of the trained AI system and for tuning its non-learnable parameters and its learning process in order, inter alia, to prevent underfitting or overfitting
eIDAS Regulation
data that is used to validate an electronic signature or an electronic seal

validation data set

AI Act
a separate data set or part of the training data set, either as a fixed or variable split

value added service

ePrivacy Directive
any service which requires the processing of traffic data or location data other than traffic data beyond what is necessary for the transmission of a communication or the billing thereof

value adjustment

Accounting Directive
the adjustments intended to take account of changes in the values of individual assets established at the balance sheet date, whether the change is final or not

value chain

Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
all activities and processes that are part of the life cycle of a product, as well as its possible remanufacturing

value date

PSD2
a reference time used by a payment service provider for the calculation of interest on the funds debited from or credited to a payment account

value of lost load

Electricity Regulation (recast)
an estimation in euro/MWh, of the maximum electricity price that customers are willing to pay to avoid an outage

ventilation shaft

Methane Regulation
a vertical passage used to move fresh air underground or to remove methane and other gases from an underground coal mine

venting

Methane Regulation
the direct release of uncombusted methane into the atmosphere

veranda

Organic Farming Regulation
an additional, roofed, uninsulated, outdoor part of a building intended for poultry, the longest side usually being equipped with wire fencing or netting, with an outdoor climate, natural and, where necessary, artificial illumination, and a littered floor

verification

Methane Regulation
the activities carried out by a verifier to assess the conformity with this Regulation of the reports transmitted by the operators, undertakings and mine operators pursuant to this Regulation

verifier

Methane Regulation
a legal person who carries out verification activities and who is, at the time a verification statement is issued, accredited by a national accreditation body pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 765/2008, or, without prejudice to Article 5(2) of that Regulation, a natural person otherwise authorised to carry out verification activities

vertically integrated undertaking 2 definitions

Electricity Market Directive (recast)
an electricity undertaking or a group of electricity undertakings where the same person or the same persons are entitled, directly or indirectly, to exercise control, and where the undertaking or group of undertakings performs at least one of the functions of transmission or distribution, and at least one of the functions of generation or supply
Gas Directive
a natural gas undertaking or a group of natural gas undertakings where the same person or the same persons are entitled, directly or indirectly, to exercise control, and where the undertaking or group of undertakings perform at least one of the functions of transmission, distribution, LNG or storage, and at least one of the functions of production or supply of natural gas

very common and widespread habitat type

Nature Restoration Law
a habitat type that occurs in several biogeographical regions in the Union with a range exceeding 10 000 km2

very high capacity network

European Electronic Communications Code
either an electronic communications network which consists wholly of optical fibre elements at least up to the distribution point at the serving location, or an electronic communications network which is capable of delivering, under usual peak-time conditions, similar network performance in terms of available downlink and uplink bandwidth, resilience, error-related parameters, and latency and its variation; network performance can be considered similar regardless of whether the end-user experience varies due to the inherently different characteristics of the medium by which the network ultimately connects with the network termination point

veterinary medicinal product

Organic Farming Regulation
a veterinary medicinal product as defined in point (2) of Article 1 of Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (39)

veterinary treatment

Organic Farming Regulation
all courses of a curative or preventive treatment against an occurrence of a specific disease

viable alternative

Single European Railway Area Directive
access to another service facility which is economically acceptable to the railway undertaking, and allows it to operate the freight or passenger service concerned

video-sharing platform service

Digital Markets Act
a video-sharing platform service as defined in Article 1(1), point (aa), of Directive 2010/13/EU

virgin substance

F-gas Regulation
a substance which has not previously been used

virtual assistant

Digital Markets Act
a software that can process demands, tasks or questions, including those based on audio, visual, written input, gestures or motions, and that, based on those demands, tasks or questions, provides access to other services or controls connected physical devices

virtual assistants

Data Act
software that can process demands, tasks or questions including those based on audio, written input, gestures or motions, and that, based on those demands, tasks or questions, provides access to other services or controls the functions of connected products

virtual IBAN

Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR)
an identifier causing payments to be redirected to a payment account identified by an IBAN different from that identifier

visa

Dublin III Regulation
the authorisation or decision of a Member State required for transit or entry for an intended stay in that Member State or in several Member States. The nature of the visa shall be determined in accordance with the following definitions: — ‘long-stay visa’ means an authorisation or decision issued by one of the Member States in accordance with its national law or Union law required for entry for an intended stay in that Member State of more than three months, — ‘short-stay visa’ means an authorisation or decision of a Member State with a view to transit through or an intended stay on the territory of one or more or all the Member States of a duration of no more than three months in any six-month period beginning on the date of first entry on the territory of the Member States, — ‘airport transit visa’ means a visa valid for transit through the international transit areas of one or more airports of the Member States

visited network

Roaming Regulation (recast)
a terrestrial public mobile communications network situated in a Member State other than that of the roaming customer's domestic provider that permits a roaming customer to make or receive calls, to send or receive SMS messages or to use packet switched data communications, by means of arrangements with the home network operator

voice communications service

European Electronic Communications Code
a publicly available electronic communications service for originating and receiving, directly or indirectly, national or national and international calls through a number or numbers in a national or international numbering plan

voluntary collection point

Batteries Regulation
any non-profit, commercial or other economic undertaking or public body involved on its own initiative in the separate collection of waste portable batteries and waste LMT batteries, generated by it or by other end-users, before handing those waste batteries over to producers, to producer responsibility organisations or to waste management operators for subsequent treatment

volunteer

Air Passenger Rights Regulation
a person who has presented himself for boarding under the conditions laid down in Article 3(2) and responds positively to the air carrier's call for passengers prepared to surrender their reservation in exchange for benefits.

vulnerability 3 definitions

Cyber Resilience Act
a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of a product with digital elements that can be exploited by a cyber threat
DORA
a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of an asset, system, process or control that can be exploited
NIS2 Directive
a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of ICT products or ICT services that can be exploited by a cyber threat

vulnerable road users

ITS Directive
non-motorised road users, such as pedestrians and cyclists as well as motor-cyclists and persons with disabilities or reduced mobility and orientation