Article 11U.K.Specific provisions concerning Type approval of vehicles or engines
1.Type-approvals may be granted to vehicles equipped with engines not covered by the scope of application of Directive 97/68/EC.
2.From 24 months after the date of entry into force of the legislation extending the scope of Directive 97/68/EC to vehicles equipped with engines not currently covered by the scope of application of that directive [or on 1 January 2018 at the latest], Member States shall refuse to grant type-approvals under this Regulation to vehicles not complying with all the requirements of this Regulation.
3.Type-approvals granted under the first paragraph shall cease to be valid three years after the date of entry into force of the legislation extending the scope of Directive 97/68/EC to those engines [or on 31 December 2018 at the latest].
With effect from 1 January 2019, Member States shall consider certificates of conformity in respect of new vehicles to be no longer valid for the purposes of Article 38 of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013, and prohibit the registration, sale and entry into service of such vehicles.
4.For the purposes of type-approval, the dates set out in Article 9(3c), 9(3d) and 9(4a) of Directive 97/68/EC shall, for agricultural and forestry vehicles of categories T2, T4.1 and C2, as defined in Articles 4(3), (6) and (9) and 2(2) of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 and equipped with engines of categories L to R, be postponed for 3 years. The transition and derogation clauses in Articles 9(4a) and 10(5) of Directive 97/68/EC and Article 39 of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 shall also be delayed accordingly.
5.Replacement engines shall comply with the same limit values that the engine to be replaced had to meet when originally placed on the market.
6.Replacement engines shall be marked in accordance with the Appendix to Annex I.