The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022

Amendments to Chapter XIV

36.—(1) In Article 61 (manufacturers’ obligations to provide vehicle OBD information and vehicle repair and maintenance information)—

(a) in paragraph 2, for the words from the beginning to “standardisation body” substitute “The Secretary of State may by regulations specify a relevant standard for the purposes of this Article, from standards developed by the British Standards Institute, the European Committee for Standardisation or a comparable standardisation body. Until such a standard has been specified”;

(b) in paragraph 3(a), omit “national”;

(c) in paragraph 11—

(i) for the words from the beginning to “amending” substitute “The Secretary of State may by regulations amend”;

(ii) for “Commission shall” substitute “Secretary of State must”.

(2) In Article 63 (fees for access to vehicle repair and maintenance information), in paragraph 1—

(a) for “national authorities” substitute “the approval authority or the market surveillance authority”;

(b) for “the Commission and” substitute “and to”.

(3) In Article 64 (proof of compliance with vehicle OBD information and repair and maintenance information obligations), in paragraph 1, for “EU type-approval or national type-approval” substitute “a GB type-approval, including a GB small series type-approval”.

(4) In Article 65 (compliance with obligations regarding access to vehicle OBD information and vehicle repair and maintenance information)—

(a) in paragraph 1, for “An approval” substitute “The approval”;

(b) in paragraph 2—

(i) for “an approval” substitute “the approval”;

(ii) omit “that granted the relevant type-approval”;

(c) in paragraph 3—

(i) omit “request the approval authority that granted the whole vehicle type-approval to”;

(ii) for “subsequently to” substitute “subsequently”;

(iii) omit “the national approval authority and”;

(iv) omit “of the request”.

(5) Omit Article 66 (forum on access to vehicle information).