The Road Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emission Performance Standards (Cars, Vans and Heavy Duty Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Amendments to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 427/2014

9.—(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 427/2014 is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 2 (scope)—

(a) in paragraph 1—

(i) in points (b) and (d), for “Regulation (EC) No 661/2009” substitute “Regulation (EC) No 661/2009, in the case of vehicles with GB type-approval, or Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 as it has effect in EU law as amended from time to time, in the case of vehicles with UK (NI) type-approval or EU type-approval”;

(ii) in point (c), for “Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 and of Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009” substitute “Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 and Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009, in the case of vehicles with GB type-approval, or Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 and Regulation (EU) 2020/740 as they have effect in EU law as amended from time to time, in the case of vehicles with UK (NI) type-approval or EU type-approval”;

(b) in paragraph 2, in point (b), at the end insert “, as it has effect in domestic law or, as the case may be, as that Regulation has effect in EU law as amended from time to time and by virtue of the Northern Ireland Protocol”;

(c) in paragraph 3, for “EC type-approved” substitute “GB type-approved”;

(d) in paragraph 4, in point (b), after “Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1151” insert “(as it has effect in domestic law or, as the case may be, as that Regulation has effect in EU law as amended from time to time and by virtue of the Northern Ireland Protocol)”.

(3) In Article 3 (definitions), in point (5)(a), for “Article 41(3)(a) and (b)” to the end substitute “Article 68(1)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858 (as it has effect in domestic law, or as that Regulation has effect in EU law as amended from time to time and by virtue of the Northern Ireland Protocol) meeting the requirements set out in Article 73 of that Regulation with the exception of technical services designated in accordance with Article 72(1) of that Regulation”.

(4) In Article 5 (baseline and eco-innovation), in paragraph 4, after “second subparagraph of point 1.2.3.1 of sub-Annex 6 or point 3.2.3.1 of sub-Annex 7 to Annex XXI to Regulation (EU) 2017/1151,” insert “as it has effect in domestic law, or as the case may be, as that Regulation has effect in EU law as amended from time to time and by virtue of the Northern Ireland Protocol,”.

(5) In Article 11 (certification of CO2 savings from eco-innovations), in paragraph 1, for “an EC type-approval certificate” substitute “a GB type-approval certificate”.