Regulation (EU) 2019/129 amending Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 as regards the application of the Euro 5 step to the type-approval of two- or three- wheel vehicles and quadricycles

Summary:

Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 January 2019 making certain changes and clarifications to Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 in the light of the 2017 effect study of the environmental step Euro 5 for L-category vehicles.

Further information:

The term ‘L-category vehicles’ covers a wide range of light vehicle types with two, three or four wheels, e.g. powered cycles, two- and three-wheel mopeds, two- and three-wheel motorcycles, motorcycles with side-cars and four-wheel vehicles (quadricycles) such as on-road quads, all-terrain vehicles and quadrimobiles. Type-approval requirements applying to L-category vehicles as of 1 January 2016 are set out in Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 and its four delegated and implementing acts.

The Commission drafted, on the basis of a comprehensive environmental effect study, a report on the effects of the Euro 5 environmental step for L-category vehicles. The conclusions of the report pointed out recommendations for improvements to Regulation (EU) No 168/2013, as well as Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 44/2014 and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 134/2014.

Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 limited all empowerments of the Commission to adopt delegated acts to a period of five years ending on 21 March 2018. As there is a continuous need to constantly update elements of the type-approval acts to technical progress or to introduce other amendments, the new regulation proposed by the Commission in March 2018 also amends Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 to provide for an empowerment of another five years with the possibility for tacit extension.

EUR-Lex: COM(2018)137: Proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 as regards the application of the Euro 5 step to the type-approval of two- or three- wheel vehicles and quadricycles https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2018:137:FIN

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