[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR16.3]

[Page 175]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
PART 16--PROCEDURES FOR A VOLUNTARY CONSUMER PRODUCT INFORMATION LABELING PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 16.3  Definitions.

    (a) The term Secretary means the Secretary of Commerce or her 
designee.
    (b) The term consumer means the first person who purchases a 
consumer product for purposes other than resale.
    (c) The term participant means a manufacturer, assembler or private 
brand labeler of consumer products or an importer of such products for 
resale and who participates in the program.
    (d) The term consumer product means any article produced or 
distributed for sale to a consumer for the use, consumption, or 
enjoyment of such consumer. The term does not include products 
customarily intended primarily for business, commercial, or industrial 
use.
    (e) The term person means an individual; a manufacturer; 
distributor; retailer; importer; private brand labeler; government 
agency at the Federal (including any agency of the Department of 
Commerce), State and local level; consumer organization; trade 
association; standards writing body; professional society; testing 
laboratory; or educational institution.
    (f) The term performance characteristic means a performance 
characteristic of a consumer product that can be measured in an 
objective manner with respect to a given consumer product.
    (g) The term Specification means a Performance Information Labeling 
Specification developed under Sec. 16.5.
    (h) The term label means printed matter affixed to or otherwise 
provided with a consumer product and containing all of the performance 
characteristics as prescribed by the Specification applicable to that 
product.
    (i) The term designated agent means a person as defined in paragraph 
(e) of this section, who has been designated by the Secretary to carry 
out appropriate operational procedures on behalf of more than one 
participant in this program in accordance with rules set out under 
Sec. 16.9.