Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 is amended as follows:

1. (1)

   paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:

   3.

   The provisions on engine categories, exhaust emission limits, test cycles, emission durability periods, exhaust emission requirements, the monitoring of emissions of in-service engines and the conduct of measurements and tests, as well as the transitional provisions and provisions allowing the early EU type-approval and the placing on the market of Stage V engines laid down for non-road mobile machinery in Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 of the European Parliament and of the Council25 and the delegated and implementing acts adopted pursuant thereto shall apply.

   For the purposes of the placing on the market, registration or entry into service of tractors of categories T2, T4.1 and C2, the engines in the power range 56-130 kW meeting the Stage III B requirements shall be considered to be transition engines as defined in point (32) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1628.

2. (2)

   in paragraph 6, the following subparagraph is added:

   By way of derogation from the principle set out in the second subparagraph, the Commission shall be empowered to amend, by 31 December 2016, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/9626, so that:

   1. (a)

      for the purposes of EU type-approval for tractors of categories T2, T4.1 and C2, the period of postponement set out in Article 11(4) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/96 is four years; and

   2. (b)

      under the flexibility scheme referred to in Article 14 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/96, the flexibility allowed pursuant to point 1.1.1 of Annex V to that Delegated Regulation is increased to 150 % for tractors of categories T2, T4.1 and C2.