Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2400Dangos y teitl llawn

CHAPTER 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1 Subject matter

This Regulation complements the legal framework for the type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with regard to emissions and vehicle repair and maintenance information established by Regulation (EU) No 582/2011 by laying down the rules for issuing licences to operate a simulation tool with a view to determining CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption of new vehicles to be sold, registered or put into service in the Union and for operating that simulation tool and declaring the CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption values thus determined.

Article 2 Scope

1. Subject to the second paragraph of Article 4, this Regulation shall apply to vehicles of category N2, as defined in Annex II to Directive 2007/46/EC, with a technically permissible maximum laden mass exceeding 7 500 kg and to all vehicles of category N3, as defined in that Annex.

2. In case of multi-stage type-approvals of vehicles referred to in paragraph 1, this Regulation shall apply only to base vehicles equipped at least with a chassis, engine, transmission, axles and tyres.

3. This Regulation shall not apply to off-road vehicles, special purpose vehicles and off road special purpose vehicles as defined, respectively, in points 2.1., 2.2. and 2.3. of Part A of Annex II to Directive 2007/46/EC.

Article 3 Definitions

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

(1)

‘CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption related properties’ means specific properties derived for a component, separate technical unit and system which determine the impact of the part on the CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption of a vehicle;

(2)

‘input data’ means information on the CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption related properties of a component, separate technical unit or system which is used by the simulation tool for the purpose of determining CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption of a vehicle;

(3)

‘input information’ means information relating to the characteristics of a vehicle which is used by the simulation tool for the purposes of determining their CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption of the vehicle and which is not part of an input data;

(4)

‘manufacturer’ means the person or body who is responsible to the approval authority for all aspects of the certification process and for ensuring conformity of CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption related properties of components, separate technical units and systems. It is not essential that the person or body be directly involved in all stages of the construction of the component, separate technical unit or system which is the subject of the certification.

(5)

‘authorised entity’ means a national authority authorised by a Member State to request relevant information from the manufacturers and vehicle manufacturers on the CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption related properties of a specific component, specific separate technical unit or specific system and CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption of new vehicles respectively.

(6)

‘transmission’ means a device consisting of at least of two shiftable gears, changing torque and speed with defined ratios;

(7)

‘torque converter’ means a hydrodynamic start-up component either as a separate component of the driveline or transmission with serial power flow that adapts speed between engine and wheel and provides torque multiplication;

(8)

‘other torque transferring component’ or ‘OTTC’ means a rotating component attached to the driveline which produces torque losses dependent on its own rotational speed;

(9)

‘additional driveline component’ or ‘ADC’ means a rotating component of the driveline which transfers or distributes power to other driveline components and produces torque losses dependant on its own rotational speed;

(10)

‘axle’ means a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear as drive axle of a vehicle;

(11)

‘air drag’ means characteristic of a vehicle configuration regarding aerodynamic force acting on the vehicle opposite to the direction of air flow and determined as a product of the drag coefficient and the cross sectional area for zero crosswind conditions;

(12)

‘auxiliaries’ means vehicle components including an engine fan, steering system, electric system, pneumatic system and air conditioning (AC) system whose CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption properties have been defined in Annex IX;

(13)

‘component family’, ‘separate technical unit family’ or ‘system family’ means a manufacturer's grouping of components, separate technical units or systems, respectively, which through their design have similar CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption related properties;

(14)

‘parent component’, ‘parent separate technical unit’ or ‘parent system’ means a component, separate technical unit or system, respectively, selected from a component, separate technical unit or system family, respectively, in such a way that its CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption related properties will be the worst case for that component family, separate technical unit family or system family;

Article 4 Vehicle groups

For the purpose of this Regulation, motor vehicles shall be classified in vehicle groups in accordance with Table 1 in Annex I.

Articles 5 to 22 do not apply to motor vehicles of vehicle groups 0, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 and 17.

Article 5 Electronic tools

1. The Commission shall provide free of charge the following electronic tools in the form of downloadable and executable software:

(a) a simulation tool;

(b) pre-processing tools;

(c) a hashing tool.

The Commission shall maintain the electronic tools and provide modifications and updates to those tools.

2. The Commission shall make the electronic tools referred to in paragraph 1 available through a publicly available dedicated electronic distribution platform.

3. The simulation tool shall be used for the purposes of determining CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption of new vehicles. It shall be designed to operate on the basis of input information as specified in Annex III, as well as input data referred to in Article 12(1).

4. The pre-processing tools shall be used for the purpose of verification and compilation of the testing results and performing additional calculations relating to CO₂ emission and fuel consumption related properties of certain components, separate technical units or systems and converting them in a format used by the simulation tool. The pre-processing tools shall be used by the manufacturer after performing the tests referred to in point 4 of Annex V for engines and in point 3 of Annex VIII for air-drag.

5. The hashing tools shall be used for establishing an unequivocal association between the certified CO₂ emission and fuel consumption related properties of a component, separate technical unit or system and its certification document, as well as for establishing an unequivocal association between a vehicle and its manufacturer's records file as referred to in point 1of Annex IV.