http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/764/schedule/2/paragraph/1

The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval and Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) Regulations 2018

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2023-02-09

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2022-12-31

These Regulations make provision in connection with Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 of the European Parliament and of the Council on requirements relating to gaseous and particulate pollutant emission limits and type-approval for internal combustion engines for non-road mobile machinery (OJ No L 252, 16.9.2016, p. 53) “the NRMM Regulation”. In particular, they—— appoint the Secretary of State as the approval authority and the market surveillance authority for the purposes of the NRMM Regulation (regulations 3 and 4)— specify when the Secretary of State may treat any application as having been withdrawn by the manufacturer (regulation 5) or when it must be refused (regulation 6)— require the holder of a type-approval to retain certain records (regulation 7)— provide for a review procedure in respect of decision notices given under article 53 of the NRMM Regulation (regulation 8)— specify when an approval may be withdrawn (regulation 9) and the effect of such a withdrawal or a suspension (regulation 10)— set out how any notice or other document is to be served on the approval authority, market surveillance authority or enforcement authority (regulation 11)— authorise the approval authority to provide and maintain testing stations and apparatus to use for examination of products for the purposes of the NRMM Regulation (regulation 12)— provide that breach of the duty to provide certain technical information which causes a person to sustain loss or damage is actionable at the suit of that person, and a defence available to the manufacturer where they have exercised all due diligence (regulation 13)— make provision in connection with the offence of use of defeat strategies to clarify that it includes the placing on the market of an engine that is fitted with a defeat device (regulation 14)— provide for breach of the Regulations or the NRMM Regulation to be an offence, and for offences to be punishable either by criminal or civil penalties (in the case of use of defeat devices) or civil penalties only (in the case of all other offences) (parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 1)— make provision for enforcement of the Regulations, including in connection with false statements and obstruction of officers, powers of search, detention of goods by customs officers and recovery of expenses of enforcement (part 3 of Schedule 1)— makes consequential amendments to various enactments, and revokes instruments replaced by the NRMM Regulation (Schedule 2).