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Article 2 – Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

  1. ‘data’ means any digital representation of acts, facts or information and any compilation of such acts, facts or information, including in the form of sound, visual or audio-visual recording;
  2. ‘metadata’ means a structured description of the contents or the use of data facilitating the discovery or use of that data;
  3. ‘personal data’ means personal data as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;
  4. ‘non-personal data’ means data other than personal data;
  5. ‘connected product’ means an item that obtains, generates or collects data concerning its use or environment and that is able to communicate product data via an servicio de comunicaciones electrónicasServicio de comunicaciones electrónicas Significa un servicio prestado normalmente a cambio de una remuneración a través de redes de comunicaciones electrónicas, que engloba, con excepción de los servicios que proporcionan contenidos transmitidos utilizando redes y servicios de comunicaciones electrónicas o ejercen un control editorial sobre ellos, los siguientes tipos de servicios: a) "servicio de acceso a internet", tal como se define en el artículo 2, párrafo segundo, punto 2, del Reglamento (UE) 2015/2120; b) servicio de comunicaciones interpersonales; y c) servicios consistentes, en su totalidad o principalmente, en el transporte de señales, como los servicios de transmisión utilizados para la prestación de servicios de máquina a máquina y para la radiodifusión. - Definición según el artículo 2, punto (4), de la Directiva (UE) 2018/1972, physical connection or on-device access, and whose primary function is not the storing, processing or transmission of data on behalf of any party other than the user;
  6. ‘related service’ means a servicio digitalServicio digital todo servicio de la sociedad de la información, es decir, todo servicio prestado normalmente a cambio de una remuneración, a distancia, por vía electrónica y a petición individual de un destinatario de servicios. A efectos de esta definición: (i) "a distancia" significa que el servicio se presta sin que las partes estén presentes simultáneamente; (ii) "por vía electrónica" significa que el servicio se envía inicialmente y se recibe en su destino mediante equipos electrónicos de tratamiento (incluida la compresión digital) y almacenamiento de datos, y se transmite, conduce y recibe íntegramente por cable, radio, medios ópticos u otros medios electromagnéticos; (iii) "a petición individual de un destinatario de servicios" significa que el servicio se presta mediante la transmisión de datos a petición individual. - Definición con arreglo al artículo 1, apartado 1, letra b), de la Directiva (UE) 2015/1535 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo., other than an electronic communications service, including software, which is connected with the product at the time of the purchase, rent or lease in such a way that its absence would prevent the connected product from performing one or more of its functions, or which is subsequently connected to the product by the manufacturer or a third party to add to, update or adapt the functions of the connected product;
  7. ‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on data or on sets of data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or other means of making them available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
  8. ‘data processing service’ means a digital service that is provided to a customer and that enables ubiquitous and on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable, scalable and elastic computing resources of a centralised, distributed or highly distributed nature that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction;
  9. ‘same service type’ means a set of data processing services that share the same primary objective, data processing service model and main functionalities;
  10. ‘data intermediation service’ means data intermediation service as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2022/868;
  11. ‘data subject’ means data subject as referred to in Article 4, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;
  12. ‘user’ means a natural or legal person that owns a connected product or to whom temporary rights to use that connected product have been contractually transferred, or that receives related services;
  13. ‘data holder’ means a natural or legal person that has the right or obligation, in accordance with this Regulation, applicable Union law or national legislation adopted in accordance with Union law, to use and make available data, including, where contractually agreed, product data or related service data which it has retrieved or generated during the provision of a related service;
  14. ‘data recipient’ means a natural or legal person, acting for purposes which are related to that person’s trade, business, craft or profession, other than the user of a connected product or related service, to whom the data holder makes data available, including a third party following a request by the user to the data holder or in accordance with a legal obligation under Union law or national legislation adopted in accordance with Union law;
  15. ‘product data’ means data generated by the use of a connected product that the manufacturer designed to be retrievable, via an electronic communications service, physical connection or on-device access, by a user, data holder or a third party, including, where relevant, the manufacturer;
  16. ‘related service data’ means data representing the digitisation of user actions or of events related to the connected product, recorded intentionally by the user or generated as a by-product of the user’s action during the provision of a related service by the provider;
  17. ‘readily available data’ means product data and related service data that a data holder lawfully obtains or can lawfully obtain from the connected product or related service, without disproportionate effort going beyond a simple operation;
  18. ‘trade secret’ means trade secret as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2016/943;
  19. ‘trade secret holder’ means a trade secret holder as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Directive (EU) 2016/943;
  20. ‘profiling’ means profiling as defined in Article 4, point (4), of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;
  21. ‘making available on the market’ means any supply of a connected product for distribution, consumption or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
  22. ‘placing on the market’ means the first making available of a connected product on the Union market;
  23. ‘consumer’ means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside that person’s trade, business, craft or profession;
  24. ‘enterprise’ means a natural or legal person that, in relation to contracts and practices covered by this Regulation, is acting for purposes which are related to that person’s trade, business, craft or profession;
  25. ‘small enterprise’ means a small enterprise as defined in Article 2(2) of the Annex to Recommendation 2003/361/EC;
  26. ‘microenterprise’ means a microenterprise as defined in Article 2(3) of the Annex to Recommendation 2003/361/EC;
  27. ‘Union bodies’ means the Union bodies, offices and agencies set up by or pursuant to acts adopted on the basis of the Treaty on European Union, the TFEU or the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community;
  28. ‘public sector body’ means national, regional or local authorities of the Member States and bodies governed by public law of the Member States, or associations formed by one or more such authorities or one or more such bodies;
  29. ‘public emergency’ means an exceptional situation, limited in time, such as a public health emergency, an emergency resulting from natural disasters, a human-induced major disaster, including a major ciberseguridadCiberseguridad "ciberseguridad": la ciberseguridad definida en el artículo 2, punto 1, del Reglamento (UE) 2019/881; - Definición según el artículo 6 de la Directiva (UE) 2022/2555 (Directiva NIS2) "ciberseguridad": las actividades necesarias para proteger las redes y los sistemas de información, a los usuarios de dichos sistemas y a otras personas afectadas por las ciberamenazas; - Definición según el artículo 2, punto (1), del Reglamento (UE) 2019/881; incidenteIncidente Se refiere a un suceso que compromete la disponibilidad, autenticidad, integridad o confidencialidad de los datos almacenados, transmitidos o procesados, o de los servicios ofrecidos por los sistemas de red y de información o accesibles a través de ellos". Definición según el artículo 6 de la Directiva (UE) 2022/2555 (Directiva NIS2), negatively affecting the population of the Union or the whole or part of a Member State, with a riesgoRiesgo Se refiere al potencial de pérdida o perturbación causado por un incidente y debe expresarse como una combinación de la magnitud de dicha pérdida o perturbación y la probabilidad de que se produzca el incidente. Definición según el artículo 6 de la Directiva (UE) 2022/2555 (Directiva NIS2) of serious and lasting repercussions for living conditions or economic stability, financial stability, or the substantial and immediate degradation of economic assets in the Union or the relevant Member State and which is determined or officially declared in accordance with the relevant procedures under Union or national law;
  30. (30) ‘customer’ means a natural or legal person that has entered into a contractual relationship with a provider of data processing services with the objective of using one or more data processing services;
  31. ‘virtual assistants’ means 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;
  32. ‘digital assets’ means elements in digital form, including applications, for which the customer has the right of use, independently from the contractual relationship with the data processing service it intends to switch from;
  33. ‘on-premises ICT infrastructure’ means ICT infrastructure and computing resources owned, rented or leased by the customer, located in the data centre of the customer itself and operated by the customer or by a third-party;
  34. ‘switching’ means the process involving a source provider of data processing services, a customer of a data processing service and, where relevant, a destination provider of data processing services, whereby the customer of a data processing service changes from using one data processing service to using another data processing service of the same service type, or other service, offered by a different provider of data processing services, or to an on-premises ICT infrastructure, including through extracting, transforming and uploading the data;
  35. ‘data egress charges’ means data transfer fees charged to customers for extracting their data through the network from the ICT infrastructure of a provider of data processing services to the system of a different provider or to on-premises ICT infrastructure;
  36. ‘switching charges’ means charges, other than estándarEstándar Especificación técnica, adoptada por un organismo de normalización reconocido, de aplicación repetida o continua, cuyo cumplimiento no es obligatorio y que es una de las siguientes (a) "norma internacional": norma adoptada por un organismo internacional de normalización; b) "norma europea": norma adoptada por un organismo europeo de normalización; c) "norma armonizada": norma europea adoptada sobre la base de una solicitud formulada por la Comisión para la aplicación de la legislación de armonización de la Unión; d) "norma nacional": norma adoptada por un organismo nacional de normalización - Definición según el artículo 2, punto 1, delReglamento (UE) nº 1025/2012 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo. service fees or early termination penalties, imposed by a provider of data processing services on a customer for the actions mandated by this Regulation for switching to the system of a different provider or to on-premises ICT infrastructure, including data egress charges;
  37. ‘functional equivalence’ means re-establishing on the basis of the customer’s exportable data and digital assets, a minimum level of functionality in the environment of a new data processing service of the same service type after the switching process, where the destination data processing service delivers a materially comparable outcome in response to the same input for shared features supplied to the customer under the contract;
  38. ‘exportable data’, for the purpose of Articles 23 to 31 and Article 35, means the input and output data, including metadata, directly or indirectly generated, or cogenerated, by the customer’s use of the data processing service, excluding any assets or data protected by intellectual property rights, or constituting a trade secret, of providers of data processing services or third parties;
  39. ‘smart contract’ means a computer program used for the automated execution of an agreement or part thereof, using a sequence of electronic data records and ensuring their integrity and the accuracy of their chronological ordering;
  40. ‘interoperability’ means the ability of two or more data spaces or communication networks, systems, connected products, applications, data processing services or components to exchange and use data in order to perform their functions;
  41. open interoperability specification’ means a especificaciones técnicasEspecificaciones técnicas Se entiende un documento que prescribe los requisitos técnicos que debe cumplir un producto, proceso, servicio o sistema y que establece uno o varios de los siguientes elementos a) las características exigidas a un producto, incluidos los niveles de calidad, rendimiento, interoperabilidad, protección del medio ambiente, salud, seguridad o dimensiones, e incluidos los requisitos aplicables al producto en lo que se refiere al nombre con el que se vende, la terminología, los símbolos, los ensayos y métodos de ensayo, el envasado, el marcado o etiquetado y los procedimientos de evaluación de la conformidad; b) los métodos y procesos de producción utilizados en relación con los productos agrícolas definidos en el artículo 38, apartado 1, del TFUE, los productos destinados al consumo humano y animal y los medicamentos, así como los métodos y procesos de producción relativos a otros productos, cuando incidan en sus características (c) las características exigidas a un servicio, incluidos los niveles de calidad, rendimiento, interoperabilidad, protección del medio ambiente, salud o seguridad, e incluidos los requisitos aplicables al prestador en lo que se refiere a la información que debe ponerse a disposición del destinatario, tal como se especifica en el artículo 22, apartados 1 a 3, de la Directiva 2006/123/CE; (d) los métodos y criterios de evaluación de las prestaciones de los productos de construcción, tal como se definen en el artículo 2, punto 1, del Reglamento (UE) n.º 305/2011 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, de 9 de marzo de 2011, por el que se establecen condiciones armonizadas para la comercialización de productos de construcción, en relación con sus características esenciales; - Definición con arreglo al artículo 2, punto 1, del Reglamento (UE) n.º 1025/2012 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo. in the field of information and communication technologies which is performance oriented towards achieving interoperability between data processing services;
  42. ‘common specifications’ means a document, other than a standard, containing technical solutions providing a means to comply with certain requirements and obligations established under this Regulation;
  43. ‘harmonised standard’ means a harmonised standard as defined in Article 2, point (1)(c), of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012.