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ANNEX IX U.K. EU TYPE-APPROVAL IN RESPECT OF THE SOUND LEVEL OF SILENCING SYSTEMS AS SEPARATE TECHNICAL UNITS (REPLACEMENT SILENCING SYSTEMS)

4. EU TYPE-APPROVAL MARK U.K.

4.2. The EU type-approval mark shall consist of a rectangle surrounding the lower case letter ‘e’ followed by the distinguishing letter(s) or number of the Member State which has granted the approval: U.K.

• ‘1’ for Germany

• ‘2’ for France

• ‘3’ for Italy

• ‘4’ for the Netherlands

• ‘5’ for Sweden

• ‘6’ for Belgium

• ‘7’ for Hungary

• ‘8’ for the Czech Republic

• ‘9’ for Spain

• ‘11’ for the United Kingdom

• ‘12’ for Austria

• ‘13’ for Luxembourg

• ‘17’ for Finland

• ‘18’ for Denmark

• ‘19’ for Romania

• ‘20’ for Poland

• ‘21’ for Portugal

• ‘23’ for Greece

• ‘24’ for Ireland

• ‘25’ for Croatia

• ‘26’ for Slovenia

• ‘27’ for Slovakia

• ‘29’ for Estonia

• ‘32’ for Latvia

• ‘34’ for Bulgaria

• ‘36’ for Lithuania

• ‘49’ for Cyprus

• ‘50’ for Malta

It shall also include in the vicinity of the rectangle the ‘base approval number’ contained in section 4 of the type-approval number referred to in Annex VII to Directive 2007/46/EC, preceded by the two figures indicating the sequence number assigned to the most recent major technical amendment to this Regulation which was applicable at the time of the vehicle type-approval. For this Regulation in its original form, the sequence number is 00. Furthermore, that sequence number shall be preceded by the character ‘A’ if the replacement silencing system is intended to be fitted on vehicle types complying with the limit values of Phase 1 in Annex III only, or the character ‘B’ if the replacement silencing system is intended to be fitted on vehicle types complying with the limit values of Phase 2 in Annex III only, or the character ‘C’ if the replacement silencing system is intended to be fitted on vehicle types complying with the limit values of Phase 3 in Annex III.