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

(a) ‘vehicle’ means any motor vehicle intended for use on the road, whether complete or incomplete, which has at least four wheels and a maximum design speed exceeding 25 km/h, together with its trailers, with the exception of vehicles which run on rails, of agricultural and forestry tractors and of all mobile machinery;

(b) ‘dangerous goods’ means dangerous goods as defined in Article 1, point (b), of the Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR), concluded at Geneva on 30 September 1957, and in Annexes A and B to that Agreement, as referred to in Section I.1 of Annex I to Directive 2008/68/EC;

(c) ‘transport’ means any road transport operation performed by a vehicle wholly or partly on public roads within the territory of a Member State, including the loading and unloading of goods covered by Directive 2008/68/EC, without prejudice to the arrangements laid down by the laws of the Member States concerning liability in respect of such operations;

(d) ‘undertaking’ means any natural or legal person, whether or not profit-seeking, any association or group of persons without legal personality, whether or not profit-seeking, and any body coming under a public authority, whether itself possessing legal personality or dependent on an authority having such personality, which carry, load or unload dangerous goods or cause them to be carried, and those which temporarily store, collect, package or take delivery of such goods as part of a transport operation and are located in the territory of the Union;

(e) ‘check’ means any check, control, inspection, verification or formality carried out by the competent authorities for reasons of safety inherent in the transport of dangerous goods.