See page 1 of this Official Journal

OJ L 59, 27.2.1998, p. 1.

OJ L 157, 9.6.2006, p. 24.

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Article 2Scope1

This Regulation shall apply to all two- or three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles as categorised in Article 4 and Annex I (‘L-category vehicles’), that are intended to travel on public roads, including those designed and constructed in one or more stages, and to systems, components and separate technical units, as well as parts and equipment, designed and constructed for such vehicles.

This Regulation also applies to enduro motorcycles (L3e-AxE (x = 1, 2 or 3)), trial motorcycles (L3e-AxT (x = 1, 2 or 3)) and heavy all terrain quads (L7e-B) as categorised in Article 4 and Annex I.

2

This Regulation does not apply to the following vehicles:

a

vehicles with a maximum design speed not exceeding 6 km/h;

b

vehicles exclusively intended for use by the physically handicapped;

c

vehicles exclusively intended for pedestrian control;

d

vehicles exclusively intended for use in competition;

e

vehicles designed and constructed for use by the armed services, civil defence, fire services, forces responsible for maintaining public order and emergency medical services;

f

agricultural or forestry vehicles subject to Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 February 2013 on the approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles, machines subject to Directive 97/68/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1997 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to measures against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants from internal combustion engines to be installed in non-road mobile machinery and Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery and motor vehicles subject to Directive 2007/46/EC;

g

vehicles primarily intended for off-road use and designed to travel on unpaved surfaces;

h

pedal cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of less than or equal to 250 W, where the output of the motor is cut off when the cyclist stops pedalling and is otherwise progressively reduced and finally cut off before the vehicle speed reaches 25 km/h;

i

self-balancing vehicles;

j

vehicles not equipped with at least one seating position;

k

vehicles equipped with any seating position of the driver or rider having an R-point height ≤ 540 mm in case of categories L1e, L3e and L4e or ≤ 400 mm in case of categories L2e, L5e, L6e and L7e.

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