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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

Public Passenger Transport Services Regulation
the value of a service, a route, a public service contract, or a compensation scheme for public passenger transport corresponding to the total remuneration, before VAT, of the public service operator or operators, including compensation of whatever kind paid by the public authorities and revenue from the sale of tickets which is not repaid to the competent authority in question

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

variant 2 definitions

Agricultural and Forestry Vehicles Type-Approval Regulation
vehicles of the same type which do not differ in at least the following respects:
Two- or Three-Wheel Vehicles Type-Approval Regulation
a vehicle of the same type where:

variation

Veterinary Medicinal Products Regulation
a change to the terms of the marketing authorisation for a veterinary medicinal product as referred to in Article 36

variation margin

CCP Recovery and Resolution Regulation
margins collected or paid out to reflect current exposures resulting from actual changes in market prices

varnish

Industrial Emissions Directive
a transparent coating

vehicle 4 definitions

Agricultural and Forestry Vehicles Type-Approval Regulation
any tractor, trailer or interchangeable towed equipment as defined in points 8, 9 and 10
Animal Transport Protection Regulation
a means of transport fitted with wheels which is propelled or towed.
Driving Time and Rest Periods Regulation
a motor vehicle, tractor, trailer or semi-trailer or a combination of these vehicles, defined as follows: — ‘motor vehicle’: any self-propelled vehicle travelling on the road, other than a vehicle permanently running on rails, and normally used for carrying passengers or goods, — ‘tractor’: any self-propelled vehicle travelling on the road, other than a vehicle permanently running on rails, and specially designed to pull, push or move trailers, semi-trailers, implements or machines, — ‘trailer’: any vehicle designed to be coupled to a motor vehicle or tractor, — ‘semi-trailer’: a trailer without a front axle coupled in such a way that a substantial part of its weight and of the weight of its load is borne by the tractor or motor vehicle
Vehicle Type-Approval Regulation
any motor vehicle or its trailer

vehicle master control switch

General Vehicle Safety Regulation
the device by which the vehicle’s on-board electronics system is brought, from being switched off, as in the case where a vehicle is parked without the driver being present, to normal operation mode

vehicle on-board diagnostic (OBD) information

Vehicle Type-Approval Regulation
the information generated by a system that is on board a vehicle or that is connected to an engine, and that is capable of detecting a malfunction, and, where applicable, is capable of signalling its occurrence by means of an alert system, is capable of identifying the likely area of malfunction by means of information stored in a computer memory, and is capable of communicating that information off-board

vehicle platooning

General Vehicle Safety Regulation
the linking of two or more vehicles in a convoy using connectivity technology and automated driving support systems which allow the vehicles to maintain automatically a set, close distance between each other when connected for certain parts of a journey and to adapt to changes in the movement of the lead vehicle with little to no action from the drivers

vehicle produced in small series

Vehicle Type-Approval Regulation
a type of vehicle of which the number of units that are made available on the market, registered or entered into service do not exceed the quantitative annual limits laid down in Annex V

vehicle repair and maintenance information 3 definitions

Agricultural and Forestry Vehicles Type-Approval Regulation
all information required for diagnosis, servicing, inspection, periodic monitoring, repair, reprogramming or reinitialising of the vehicle and which the manufacturers provide for their authorised dealers and repairers, including all subsequent amendments and supplements to such information; that information includes all information required for the fitting of parts and equipment on vehicles
Two- or Three-Wheel Vehicles Type-Approval Regulation
all information required for diagnosis, servicing, inspection, periodic monitoring, repair, re-programming or re-initialising of a vehicle and which manufacturers provide to their authorised dealers and repairers, including all subsequent amendments and supplements to such information; that information includes all information required for the fitting of parts and equipment on vehicles
Vehicle Type-Approval Regulation
all information, including all subsequent amendments and supplements thereto, that is required for diagnosing, servicing and inspecting a vehicle, preparing it for road worthiness testing, repairing, re-programming or re-initialising of a vehicle, or that is required for the remote diagnostic support of a vehicle or for the fitting on a vehicle of parts and equipment, and that is provided by the manufacturer to his authorised partners, dealers and repairers or is used by the manufacturer for the repair and maintenance purposes

vehicle type 2 definitions

Agricultural and Forestry Vehicles Type-Approval Regulation
a group of vehicles, including variants and versions of the same category, that do not differ in at least the following essential respects: — category, — manufacturer, — type designation given by the manufacturer, — essential construction and design characteristics, — backbone chassis/chassis with side members/articulated chassis (obvious and fundamental differences), — for category T: axles (number) or, for category C: axles/tracks (number), — in the case of multi-stage built vehicles, the manufacturer and the type of the previous stage vehicle
Two- or Three-Wheel Vehicles Type-Approval Regulation
a group of vehicles, including variants and versions of a particular category that do not differ in at least the following essential respects:

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

verifiable date

Conflict Minerals Regulation
a date which can be verified by the inspection of physical date stamps on products or of inventory lists.

verification 2 definitions

Entry/Exit System (EES) Regulation
the process of comparing sets of data to establish the validity of a claimed identity (one-to-one check)
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

verification tolerance

Energy Labelling Framework Regulation
the maximum admissible deviation of the measurement and calculation results of the verification tests performed by, or on behalf of, market surveillance authorities, compared to the values of the declared or published parameters, reflecting deviation arising from interlaboratory variation.

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

version of a variant 2 definitions

Agricultural and Forestry Vehicles Type-Approval Regulation
vehicles which consist of a combination of items shown in the information package referred to in Article 24(10). References in this Regulation to requirements, procedures or arrangements laid down in this Regulation shall be read as references to such requirements, procedures or arrangements laid down in this Regulation and in the delegated and implementing acts adopted pursuant to this Regulation.
Two- or Three-Wheel Vehicles Type-Approval Regulation
a vehicle which consists of a combination of items shown in the information package referred to in Article 29(10)

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

very lightweight plastic carrier bags

Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation
plastic carrier bags with a wall thickness below 15 microns

very thick plastic carrier bags

Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation
plastic carrier bags with a wall thickness above 99 microns

veterinary medicinal product 3 definitions

EMA Crisis Preparedness Regulation
a veterinary medicinal product as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and the Council (18)
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 Medicinal Products Regulation
any substance or combination of substances which fulfils at least one of the following conditions:

veterinary prescription

Veterinary Medicinal Products Regulation
a document issued by a veterinarian for a veterinary medicinal product or a medicinal product for human use for its use in animals

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

virtual testing method 3 definitions

Agricultural and Forestry Vehicles Type-Approval Regulation
computer simulations, including calculations, to demonstrate whether a vehicle, a system, a component or a separate technical unit fulfils the technical requirements of a delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 27(6) without requiring the use of a physical vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit
Two- or Three-Wheel Vehicles Type-Approval Regulation
computer simulations, including calculations, to demonstrate whether a vehicle, a system, a component or a separate technical unit fulfils the technical requirements of a delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 32(6) without requiring the use of a physical vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit
Vehicle Type-Approval Regulation
computer simulations, including calculations, to demonstrate that a vehicle, a system, a component or a separate technical unit fulfils the technical requirements of a regulatory act listed in Annex II without requiring the use of a physical vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit

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

visa authority

Entry/Exit System (EES) Regulation
the visa authority as defined in point 3 of Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008

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

volatile organic compound

Industrial Emissions Directive
any organic compound as well as the fraction of creosote, having at 293,15 K a vapour pressure of 0,01 kPa or more, or having a corresponding volatility under the particular conditions of use

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

voluntary measure

Market Surveillance Regulation
a corrective action where not required by a market surveillance authority

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 user

General Vehicle Safety Regulation
non-motorised road users, including, in particular, cyclists and pedestrians, as well as users of powered two-wheelers

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