ANNEX IICALCULATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE POINTS

1.The following documents must be submitted by the driver of a heavy goods vehicle each time it crosses the Austrian border (in any direction):

  1. (a)

    a document showing the COP value for NOx emissions from the vehicle in question;

  2. (b)

    a valid points card issued by the competent authority.

Concerning (a):

  • in the case of EURO 0, EURO 1, EURO 2, EURO 3-standards heavy goods vehicles registered after 1 October 1990, the document showing the COP value must be a certificate issued by the competent authority giving details of an official COP value for NOx emissions or the type-approval certificate showing the date of approval and value established for type-approval purposes. In the latter case the COP value will be the type-approval value plus 10 %. Once such a value has been determined for a vehicle it cannot be changed during the vehicle's life.

  • In the case of heavy goods vehicles registered before 1 October 1990 and heavy goods vehicles for which no certificate is submitted, a COP value of 15,8 g/kWh will be set.

Concerning (b):

the points card/ecotag contains a certain number of points and is endorsed as follows on the basis of the COP value for the vehicles in question:

  1. 1.

    each g/kWh of NOx, calculated according to point (a), counts as one point;

  2. 2.

    NOx emission values are rounded up to the next full point if the decimal is 0,5 or more, otherwise they are rounded down.