Regulation (EU) 2019/519 amending Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 on the approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles

Summary:

Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2019 amending Regulation No 167/2013 on the safety and performance of agricultural and forestry vehicles.

Further information:

Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 sets out the general fundamental provisions on functional safety, occupational safety and environmental performance applying to agricultural and forestry vehicles. It empowers the European Commission to lay down the corresponding detailed technical requirements, test procedures and limit values, where applicable, in four delegated acts on (i) occupational safety (vehicle construction requirements); (ii) functional safety; (iii) braking; and (iv) environmental and propulsion performance.

The Regulation limited the power of the Commission to adopt delegated acts to a period of 5 years, which expired on 21 March 2018. As there is a continuous need to update elements of these delegated acts to technical progress or to introduce other amendments, the Commission proposed to amend Article 71(2) of the Regulation to provide for the power to adopt delegated acts of another 5 years with the possibility for tacit extension.

In addition, certain terms and editorial errors in the Regulation needed to be corrected as well as a limited number of points upgraded to technical progress following the first implementation period of these acts.

EUR-Lex: COM(2018)289: Proposal for a Regulation amending and correcting Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 on the approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2018:289:FIN

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