Commission Directive 2006/51/EC of 6 June 2006 amending for the purposes of adapting to technical progress Annex I to Directive 2005/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annexes IV and V to Directive 2005/78/EC as regards requirements for the emission control monitoring system for use in vehicles and exemptions for gas engines (Text with EEA relevance)

ANNEX IIAMENDMENTS TO DIRECTIVE 2005/78/EC

1.Annex IV is amended as follows:

(a)

in section 3.6.4 ‘permanent emission default mode’ is replaced by ‘emission default mode’;

(b)

in the second paragraph of section 3.7 ‘permanent emission default mode’ is replaced by ‘emission default mode’;

(c)

section 3.8.3. is replaced by the following:

‘3.8.3.In the case of MI activation due to incorrect operation of the engine system with respect to NO_x control measures, or incorrect reagent consumption and dosing activity, the MI may be switched back to the previous state of activation if the conditions given in section 6.5.3., 6.5.4 and 6.5.7. of Annex I to Directive 2005/55/EC no longer apply.’;

(d)

section 3.9.2. is replaced by the following:

‘3.9.2.From 9 November 2006 for new type approvals and from 1 October 2007 for all registrations, in the case of a non-erasable fault code being generated according to sections 6.5.3 or 6.5.4 of Annex I to Directive 2005/55/EC, the OBD system shall retain a record of the fault code and the hours run by the engine during the MI activation for at least 400 days or 9 600 hours of engine operation.

Any such fault code and the corresponding hours run by the engine during MI activation shall not be erased through use of any external diagnostic or other tool as referred to in section 6.8.3 of this Annex.’

2.Annex V is amended as follows:

(a)

point 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2.Example of applying requirements set out in this Directive and Directive 2005/55/EC for the third approval (with, as yet, no extension) corresponding to application date B1 with OBD stage I, issued by the United Kingdom:

e11*2005/55*2005/78B*0003*00’;

(b)

point 3 is replaced by the following:

‘3.Example of applying requirements set out in Directives 2005/55/EC and amending Directive 2006/51/EC for the second extension to the fourth approval corresponding to application date B2, with OBD stage II, issued by Germany:

e1*2005/55*2006/51F*0004*02’;

(c)

the following point 4 is added:

‘4.Table showing the characters to be used in accordance with the different implementation dates set out in Directive 2005/55/EC: