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 EUROPEAN  
COMMISSION   
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[…](2019) XXX  draft  
 
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/...  
of XXX  
amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 901/2014 with regard to the adaptation of 
the templates for type -approval procedures for two - or three -wheel vehicles and 
quadricycles to the environmental steps Euro 5 and Euro 5+ requirements  
(Text with EEA releva nce)  EN 1  EN COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/...  
of XXX  
amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 901/2014 with regard to the adaptation of 
the templates for type -approval procedures for two - or three -wheel vehicles and 
quadricycles to the environmental steps Euro 5 and Euro 5+ requirements  
(Text with EEA relevance)  
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,  
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Unio n, 
Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 
2013 on the approval and market surveillance of two - or three -wheel vehicles and 
quadricycles1, and in particular Article 27(4), Article 29(4), Article 3 2(1) and Article 38(2) 
thereof,  
Whereas:  
(1) Pursuant to the requirements introduced by Regulation (EU) 2019/129 of the European 
Parliament and of the Council2 as regards the application of the environmental step 
Euro 5 for L -category vehicles, certain sub -categories of v ehicles will have to comply 
with additional technical requirements as from certain dates. Other sub -categories are 
exempted or are required to comply with certain requirements later than originally set 
out in Regulation (EU) No  168/2013.  
(2) The administrativ e type -approval templates laid down in Commission Implementing 
Regulation (EU) No 901/2014 3 should be adapted in light of the amendments 
provided for in Regulation (EU) 2019/129 to facilitate the type -approval process and 
to enable national authorities to verify compliance with the requirements of 
environmental step s Euro  5 and Euro 5+  applicable at a given date.  
(3) Implementing Regulation (EU) No 901/2014 should therefore be amended 
accordingly.  
(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of 
the Technical Committee – Motor Vehicles,  
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:  
Article 1  
Regulation (EU) No 901/2014  is amended as follows:  
                                                 
1 OJ L 60, 2.3.2013, p. 52.   
2  Regulation (EU) 2019/129 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 January 2019 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 quadr icycles  (OJ L 30, 31.1.2019, p. 106 ). 
3  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 901/2014 of 18 July 2014 implementing Regulation 
(EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the administrative 
requirements for the appro val and market surveillance of two - or three -wheel vehicles and quadricycles 
(OJ L 249, 22.8.2014, p. 1).  EN 2  EN (1) the following Article 1 2a is inserted:  
‘Article 1 2a 
Transitional provisions  
1. Until 30 June 2020, national  authorities shall continue to grant type -approvals to 
vehicle types in accordance with this Regulation in its version applicable on [ OP, 
please insert the date immediately preceding the date of entry into force of this 
Regulation ]. 
2. Until 31 December 2020,  the Member States shall permit the placing on the market,  
registration and entry into service  of vehicles based on a vehicle type approved in 
accordance with this Regulation in its version applicable on [ OP, please insert the 
date immediately preceding th e date of entry into force of this Regulation ].’;  
(2) Annexes I, IV, VII and VIII are amended in accordance with the Annex to this 
Regulation . 
Article 2  
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in 
the Offic ial Journal of the European Union . 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.  
Done at Brussels,  
 For the Commission  
 The President Jean -Claude Juncker