The Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 2743

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002

Made

3rd November 2002

Laid before Parliament

6th November 2002

Coming into force

27th November 2002

The Secretary of State for Transport, being a Minister designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) for the regulation of the type, description, construction or equipment of vehicles, and of components of vehicles, and in particular any vehicle type approval scheme, in exercise of the powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 27th November 2002.

Amendments to Schedule 1

2.—(1) The Table in Schedule 1 to the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1998(3) shall be further amended by the insertion in the columns specified of the entries specified below.

(2) In item 9 (Braking), there shall be inserted in the third and fourth columns—

2002/78/EC*

L267, 4.10.2002, p.23

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

David Jamieson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Transport

3rd November 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1998 (“the 1998 Regulations”).

Directive 71/320/EEC(4) relating to the technical specification for braking devices in certain motor vehicles (a “separate Directive” specified in Schedule 1 to the 1998 Regulations) has been amended by Directive 2002/78/EC. Regulation 2 inserts a reference to Directive 2002/78/EC at the appropriate place in the table in Schedule 1 to the 1998 Regulations, thereby implementing that Directive for the purposes of EC type approval procedures.

In line with the 1998 Regulations, the use of the symbol * denotes that the Directive specified is a Commission Directive.

This Explanatory Note incorporates the Transposition Note that would otherwise have been provided separately.

Copies of the EC Directives referred to in these Regulations can be obtained from the Stationery Office.

(1)

S.I 1972/1811.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

S.I. 1998/2051, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(4)

OJ No. L81, 18.3.1998, p. 1.