Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1892Show full title

Article 1 U.K.

Regulation (EU) No 1230/2012 is amended as follows:

(1)

in Article 1, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1. This Regulation lays down the requirements for the EC type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers with regard to their masses and dimensions as well as of certain separate technical units intended for those vehicles.’;

(2)

Article 2 is amended as follows:

(a)

points (25) and (26) are replaced by the following:

‘(25)

“wheelbase” means the following:

(a)

for motor vehicles and drawbar trailers, the horizontal distance between the centre of the first and the last axle;

(b)

for centre-axle trailers, semi-trailers and rigid drawbar trailers, the distance between the vertical axis of the coupling and the centre of the last axle;

(26)

“axle spacing” means the distance between two consecutive axles; for centre axle trailers, semi-trailers and rigid drawbar trailers, the first axle spacing is the horizontal distance between the vertical axis of the front coupling and the centre of the first axle;’;

(b)

point (33) is replaced by the following:

‘(33)

“rear swing-out” means the distance between the initial point and the actual extreme point reached by the rear end of a vehicle when manoeuvring in the conditions specified in Section 8 of Part B of Annex I or in Section 7 of Part C of that Annex;’;

(c)

the following point (41) is added:

‘(41)

“aerodynamic devices and equipment” mean devices or equipment that are designed to reduce the aerodynamic drag of road vehicles, with the exception of elongated cabs.’;

(3)

the following Articles 4a and 4b are inserted:

‘Article 4a EC separate technical unit type-approval of aerodynamic devices and equipment

1. The manufacturer or his representative shall submit to the type-approval authority the application for EC type-approval of an aerodynamic device or equipment as a separate technical unit.

The application shall be drawn up in accordance with the model of the information document set out in Part C of Annex V.

2. If the relevant requirements set out in this Regulation are met, the approval authority shall grant an EC separate technical unit type-approval and issue a type-approval number in accordance with the numbering system set out in Annex VII to Directive 2007/46/EC

A Member State shall not assign the same number to another type of separate technical unit.

3. For the purposes of paragraph 2, the type-approval authority shall deliver an EC type-approval certificate established in accordance with the model set out in Part D of Annex V.

Article 4b EC separate technical unit type-approval mark

Every separate technical unit conforming to a type in respect of which EC separate technical unit type-approval has been granted pursuant to this Regulation shall bear an EC separate technical unit type-approval mark as set out in Part E of Annex V.’;

(4)

Annex I is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation;

(5)

Annex V is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.

Article 2 U.K.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 31 October 2019.

For the Commission

The President

Jean-Claude Juncker