ANNEX III U.K. PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED WITH RESPECT TO [F1 GB]  TYPE-APPROVAL

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in Annex 3 heading substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 42(2)

Appendix 2 Procedure for the assessment of the technical services

4. Application for designation U.K.

4.1. A duly authorised representative of the applicant technical service shall submit a formal application to the competent authority that includes the following information: U.K.

(a)

general features of the technical service, including corporate entity, name, addresses, legal status and technical resources;

(b)

a detailed description, including curriculum vitae, of the personnel in charge of testing and of the managerial staff, setting out their educational qualifications and professional skills;

(c)

technical services which use virtual testing methods shall provide evidence of their ability to work in a Computer-Aided-x environment;

(d)

general information concerning the technical service, including its activities, its relationship in a larger corporate entity, if any, and addresses of all its physical location(s) to be covered by the scope of designation;

(e)

an agreement to fulfil the requirements for designation and the other obligations of the technical service as provided for in the relevant regulatory acts for which it is designated;

(f)

a description of the conformity assessment services that the technical service undertakes in the framework of the relevant regulatory acts and a list of the regulatory acts for which the technical service applies for designation, including limits of capability, where applicable;

(g)

a copy of the quality assurance manual of the technical service.

4.2. The competent authority shall review the adequacy of the information provided by the technical service. U.K.

4.3. The technical service shall notify to the competent authority any modifications to the information provided in accordance with point 4.1. U.K.