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

(a) ‘carriage of goods by road’ : all transport of goods by means of a goods road transport vehicle;

(b) ‘road transport vehicle’ : a road vehicle fitted with an engine whence it derives its sole means of propulsion, which is normally used for carrying persons or goods by road, or for drawing, on the road, vehicles used for the carriage of persons or goods;

(c) ‘road vehicle for the transport of goods’ : a road vehicle designed exclusively or primarily to carry goods (lorry, trailer, semi-trailer);

(d) ‘goods road transport vehicle’ : any single road transport vehicle, or combination of road vehicles, namely road train or articulated vehicle, designed to carry goods;

(e) ‘lorry’ : a rigid road vehicle designed exclusively or primarily to carry goods;

(f) ‘road tractor’ : a road transport vehicle designed exclusively or primarily to haul other road vehicles which are not power-driven (mainly semi-trailers);

(g) ‘trailer’ : a road vehicle for the transport of goods designed to be hauled by a road transport vehicle;

(h) ‘semi-trailer’ : a road vehicle for the transport of goods with no front axle so designed that part of the vehicle and a substantial part of its loaded weight rest on the road tractor;

(i) ‘articulated vehicle’ : a road tractor coupled to a semi-trailer;

(j) ‘road train’ : a goods road transport vehicle coupled to a trailer or an articulated vehicle with a further trailer attached;

(k) ‘registered’ : the state of having been entered in a register of road transport vehicles, kept by an official body in a Member State, whether or not the registration is accompanied by the issue of a registration plate. In the case of carriage by means of a combination of road transport vehicles, namely road train or articulated vehicle, in which the goods road transport vehicle and the trailer or semi-trailer are registered in different countries, the complete vehicle shall be deemed to be registered in the country where the goods road transport vehicle is registered;

(l) ‘load capacity’ : maximum weight of goods declared permissible by the competent authority of the country of registration of the vehicle. When the goods road transport vehicle is a road train made up of a lorry with trailer, the load capacity of the road train is the sum of the load capacities of the lorry and the trailer;

(m) ‘maximum permissible weight’ : total weight of the vehicle (or vehicle combination) when stationary and ready for the road and of the weight of the load declared permissible by the competent authority of the country of registration of the vehicle;

(n) ‘Eurostat’ : the Commission department responsible for carrying out the tasks incumbent on the Commission in the field of the production of Union statistics.