Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken by the Union within the Administrative Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe regarding the draft Regulation on uniform provisions concerning the approval of Retrofit Emission Control Devices (REC) for heavy duty vehicles, agricultural and forestry tractors and non-road mobile machinery equipped with compression ignition engines

At international level, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) develops harmonised requirements, intended to remove technical barriers to the trade in motor vehicles and systems used for such motor vehicles between the Contracting Parties to the Revised 1958 Agreement and to ensure that such vehicles and systems offer a high level of safety and environmental protection.

The UNECE recently finalised a draft Regulation on uniform provisions concerning the approval of Retrofit Emission Control Devices (REC) for heavy duty vehicles, agricultural and forestry tractors and non-road mobile machinery equipped with compression ignition engines. The objective of this draft regulation is to establish a set of requirements for the approval of those devices, which ensures an acceptable level of environmental performance and correct operation during its lifetime.

The present proposal aims at defining the Union position with regard to the draft UNECE regulation concerning the approval of REC and consequently to provide for the Union, represented by the Commission, to vote in favour of this draft.

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EUR-Lex: COM(2013)693: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:693:FIN

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