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Directive 2005/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (repealed)Show full title

Directive 2005/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 relating to the use of frontal protection systems on motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC (repealed)

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3.EC TYPE-APPROVAL MARK

3.1.Every frontal protection system conforming to the type approved pursuant to this Directive shall bear an EC type-approval mark.

3.2.This mark shall consist of:

3.2.1.A rectangle surrounding the letter ‘e’ followed by the distinguishing number or letters of the Member State which has granted type-approval:

1

for Germany

2

for France

3

for Italy

4

for the Netherlands

5

for Sweden

6

for Belgium

9

for Spain

11

for the United Kingdom

12

for Austria

13

for Luxembourg

17

for Finland

18

for Denmark

21

for Portugal

23

for Greece

IRL

for Ireland

49

for Cyprus

8

for the Czech Republic

29

for Estonia

7

for Hungary

32

for Latvia

36

for Lithuania

50

for Malta

20

for Poland

27

for the Slovak Republic

26

for Slovenia

3.2.2.In the vicinity of the rectangle the ‘base approval number’ contained in section 4 of the type-approval number referred to in Annex VII of Directive 70/156/EEC, preceded by the two figures indicating the sequence number assigned to the most recent major technical amendment to this Directive on the date the EC type-approval was granted. In this Directive the sequence number is 01.

An asterisk inserted after the sequence number will indicate that the frontal protection system was approved under the consideration, for the legform impactor test, allowed by paragraph 3.1.1.1 or 3.1.2.1 of Annex I. If this consideration is not granted by the approval authority the asterisk is replaced by a space.

3.3.The EC type-approval mark shall be affixed to the frontal protection system in such a way as to be indelible and clearly legible even when the system is fitted to the vehicle.

3.4.An example of the EC type-approval mark is given in Appendix 5.

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