The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2011

End-of-series exemption

5.  After regulation 61C, insert—

“Review of regulations 61 to 61B

61D.— (1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a) carry out a review of regulations 61 to 61B, which relate to emissions,

(b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and

(c) publish the report.

(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how, in so far as they make provision in relation to emissions—

(a) the Framework Directive, and

(b) Directives 70/220/EEC(1), 88/77/EEC(2), 2005/55/EC(3) and 2006/40/EC(4),

which are implemented by means of various provisions in these Regulations and by the Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2009(5), are implemented in other Member States.

(3) The report must in particular—

(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by these Regulations to the extent that they relate to emissions,

(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and

(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with 14th January 2012.

(5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.”.

(1)

Council Directive 70/220/EEC of 20 March 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States on measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles (OJ No L 76, 6.4.1970, p.1), amended by: Council Directive 74/290/EEC of 28 May 1974 (OJ No L 159, 15.6.1974, p.61); Commission Directive 77/102/EEC of 30 November 1976 (OJ No L 32, 3.2.1977, p.32); Commission Directive 78/665/EEC of 14 July 1978 (OJ No L 223, 14.8.1978, p.48); Council Directive 83/351/EEC of 16 June 1983 (OJ No L 197, 20.7.1983, p.1); Council Directive 88/76/EEC of 3 December 1987 (OJ No L 36, 9.2.1988, p.1); Council Directive 88/436/EEC of 16 June 1988 (OJ No L 214, 6.8.1988, p.1); Council Directive 89/458/EEC of 18 July 1989 (OJ No L 226, 3.8.1989, p.1); Commission Directive 89/491/EEC of 17 July 1989 (OJ No L 238, 15.8.1989, p.43); Council Directive 91/441/EEC of 26 June 1991 (OJ No L 242, 30.8.1991, p.1); Council Directive 93/59/EEC of 28 June 1993 (OJ No L 186, 28.7.1993, p.21); Directive 94/12/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 23 March 1994 (OJ No L 100, 19.4.1994, p.42); Commission Directive 96/44/EC of 1 July 1996 (OJ No L 210, 20.8.1996, p.25); Directive 96/69/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 October 1996 (OJ No L 282, 1.11.1996, p.64); Commission Directive 98/77/EC of 2 October 1998 (OJ No L 286, 23.10.1998, p.34); Directive 98/69/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 (OJ No. L 350, 28.12.1998, p.1); Commission Directive 1999/102/EC of 15 December 1999 (OJ No L 334, 28.12.1999, p.43); Directive 2001/1/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 January 2001 (OJ No L 35, 6.2.2001, p.34); Directive 2001/100/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 December 2001 (OJ No L 16, 18.1.2002, p.32); Commission Directive 2002/80/EC of 3 October 2002 (OJ No L 291, 28.10.2002, p.20); Commission Directive 2003/76/EC of 11 August 2003 (OJ No L 206, 15.8.2003, p.29); and Council Directive 2006/96/EC of 20 November 2006 (OJ No L 363, 20.12.2006, p.81).

(2)

Council Directive 88/77/EEC of 3 December 1987 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the measures to be taken against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants from compression ignition engines for use in vehicles, and the emission of gaseous pollutants from positive ignition engines fuelled with natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas for use in vehicles, as amended by: Council Directive 91/542/EEC of 1 October 1991 (OJ No L 295, 25.10.1991, p.1); Directive 96/1/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 January 1996 (OJ No L 40, 17.2.1996, p.1); Directive 1999/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 (OJ No L 44, 16.2.2000, p.1); Commission Directive 2001/27/EC of 10 April 2001 (OJ No L 107, 10 18.4.2001, p.10); the Act of Accession of Austria, Sweden and Finland (OJ No C 241, 29.8.1994, p.21) and adapted by Council Decision 95/1/EC, Euratom, ECSC (OJ No L 1, 1.1.1995, p.1); and the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded (OJ No L 236, 23.9.2003, p.33).

(3)

Directive 2005/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 September 2005 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the measures to be taken against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants from compression-ignition engines for use in vehicles, and the emission of gaseous pollutants from positive-ignition engines fuelled with natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas for use in vehicles (OJ No L 275, 20.10.2005, p.1), as amended by: Commission Directive 2005/75/EC of 14 November 2005 (OJ No L 313, 29.11.2005, p.1); Commission Directive 2006/51/EC of 6 June 2006 (OJ No L 11, 7.6.2006, p.11); and Commission Directive 2008/74/EC of 18 July 2008 (OJ No L 51, 19.7.2008, p51).

(4)

Directive 2006/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 relating to emissions from air-conditioning systems in motor vehicles and amending Directive 70/156/EEC (OJ No L161, 14.6.2006, p.12). Directive 70/56/EEC was the predecessor of the current Framework Directive.

(5)

S.I. 2009/717, amended by S.I. 2011/1946.