PART IVGENERAL PROVISIONS
Equivalent standards13.
(1)
Nothing in these Regulations shall make it unlawful to supply a tyre if it would not be unlawful to supply the tyre were there substituted, for a reference in these Regulations to any provision in a British Standard Specification, a reference to an equivalent provision in a corresponding standard.
(2)
In this regulation, “corresponding standard”, in relation to a British Standard Specification, means —
(a)
a standard or code of practice of a national standards body or equivalent body of any EEA State;
(b)
any international standard recognised for use as a standard by any EEA State; or
(c)
a technical specification or code of practice which, whether mandatory or not, is recognised for use as a standard by a public authority of any EEA State,
where the standard, code of practice, international standard or technical specification provides, in relation to tyres, a level of safety equivalent to that provided by the British Standard Specification and contains a requirement as respects the marking of tyres equivalent to that provided by that instrument.
(3)
In this regulation —
“EEA State” means a state which is a contracting Party to the EEA Agreement but, until the EEA Agreement comes into force in relation to Liechtenstein, does not include the State of Liechtenstein; and