The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020

Form of certificates: national type approval of small series and individual approval

20.—(1) A national small series type approval certificate must be in the form set out in Model A of Annex III to the Implementing Regulation.

(2) An individual approval certificate must be in the form set out in Model E of Annex III to the Implementing Regulation.

(3) A national small series certificate of conformity must be in the same format as that prescribed by Articles 36 and 37 of the Type Approval Regulation and Article 8 of the Implementing Regulation for an EU certificate of conformity relating to a vehicle of the same category and class containing such particulars as are relevant to the vehicle in respect of which it is issued, save that—

(a) the certificate must carry the heading “National Small Series Certificate of Conformity (United Kingdom)”,

(b) for each reference to an EU type-approval there must be substituted a reference to a national small series type approval, and

(c) for “EU type-approved”, in each place the expression occurs, there must be substituted “nationally type-approved”.

(4) In this regulation, “the Implementing Regulation” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/683 of 15 April 2020 implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regards to the administrative requirements for the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles(1).

(1)

OJ No. L 163, 26.5.2020, p. 1.