Commission Directive 2009/1/ECShow full title

Article 1

Annex IV to Directive 2005/64/EC is amended by inserting a new paragraph 4 as follows:

‘4.1. For the purposes of preliminary assessment under Article 6 of Directive 2005/64/EC, the vehicle manufacturer shall be required to demonstrate that, through contractual arrangements with his suppliers, compliance with Article 4(2)(a) of Directive 2000/53/EC is ensured.

4.2. For the purposes of preliminary assessment under Article 6 of Directive 2005/64/EC, the vehicle manufacturer shall be required to establish procedures for the following purposes:

(a)

to communicate the applicable requirements to his staff and to all of his suppliers;

(b)

to monitor and ensure that suppliers act in accordance with those requirements;

(c)

to collect the relevant data through the full supply chain;

(d)

to check and verify the information received from suppliers;

(e)

to react adequately where the data received from the suppliers indicate non-compliance with the requirements under Article 4(2)(a) of Directive 2000/53/EC.

4.3. For the purposes of paragraph 4.1 and 4.2, the vehicle manufacturer shall be required to use, in agreement with the competent body, ISO 9000/14000 or other standardised quality assurance programme.’

Article 2

With effect from 1 January 2012, if the requirements laid down in Directive 2005/64/EC as amended by this Directive are not complied with, Member States, on grounds related to the reusability, recyclability and recoverability of motor vehicles, shall refuse to grant EC type-approval or national type-approval for new types of vehicles.

Article 3

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 3 February 2010, at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.

They shall apply those provisions from 4 February 2010.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 4

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 5

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 7 January 2009.

For the Commission

Günter Verheugen

Vice-President