Regulation (EU) 2018/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, amending Regulations (EC) No 715/2007 and (EC) No 595/2009 and repealing Directive 2007/46/EC (Text with EEA relevance) (c. 858)

ANNEX I U.K. GENERAL DEFINITIONS, CRITERIA FOR VEHICLE CATEGORISATION, TYPES OF VEHICLE AND TYPES OF BODYWORK

PART B U.K. Criteria for types of vehicle, variants and versions

6. Categories O₃ and O₄ U.K.

6.1. Type of vehicle U.K.

6.1.1. A ‘type of vehicle’ shall consist of vehicles that have the following features in common: U.K.

(a)

the manufacturer's company name.

A change in the legal form of ownership of the company does not require that a new approval has to be granted;

(b)

the category;

(c)

the concept of the trailer with relation to the definitions in point 5 of Part C;

(d)

the following aspects of construction and design:

(i)

the design and construction of the essential constituent elements forming the chassis;

(ii)

the design and construction of the essential constituent elements forming the body structure in the case of trailers with a self-supporting body;

(e)

the number of axles.

6.1.2. A type of vehicle shall consist of at least one variant and one version. U.K.

6.2. Variants U.K.

6.2.1. A ‘variant’ within a type of vehicle shall group the vehicles that have the following construction and design features in common: U.K.

(a)

the kind of bodywork as referred to in Appendix 2 (for complete and completed vehicles);

(b)

the stage of completion (e.g. complete/incomplete/completed);

(c)

the concept of the suspensions (steel, air or hydraulic suspension);

(d)

the following technical features:

(i)

the capability or not for the chassis to be extendible;

(ii)

the deck height (normal, low loader, semi-low loader etc.);

(e)

in the case of multi-stage built vehicles, the manufacturer and the type of the previous stage vehicle.

6.3. Versions U.K.

6.3.1. A ‘version’ within a variant shall group the vehicles that have the following features in common: U.K.

(a)

the technically permissible maximum laden mass;

(b)

the subdivisions or combination of subdivisions referred to in [F1 column 4 of table 6 in Schedule 3 to the Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) Regulations 1998] into which the axle spacing between two consecutive axles forming a group belongs;

(c)

the definition of the axles in the following respects:

(i)

lift axles (number and position);

(ii)

loadable axles (number and position);

(iii)

steered axle (number and position).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Annex 1 Pt. B point 6.3.1(b) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 40(4)