AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON THE MASSES AND DIMENSIONS OF MOTOR VEHICLES OF CATEGORY M1
Date: 1991-02-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: motor vehicle, road transport, standard, weight and size

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 

C0M(91) 38 final - SYN 236, 237, 238 

Brussels,  8  February 1991 

Amendments to  the  proposais  for 
ODracn. nnœnvES 
on 

safety glazing and glazing materials on motor vehicles and their  SYN 236 

trailers; 

tbe masses and dimensions of motor vehicles of category Ml; 

SYN 237 

pneumatic tyres for motor vehicles and their trailers. 

SYN 238 

(Submitted by the Commission pursuant to Artiole 149(3) of the EEC Treaty). 

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On 12 Feibruary 1990 the Commission sent to 12)6 Council three proposals for 
directives on: 

safety glazing and glazing materials on motor vehicles and their 
trailers; 
masses and dimensions of motor vehicles of category HI; 
pneumatic tyres for motor vehicles and their trailers. 

The proposals in question replaced those sent to the Council on 
20 September 1972 (O0M(72)981 final) and 31 December 1976 (OOM(76)701 final 
and O0M(76)712 final) concerning glazing, masses and dimensions and 
pneumatic tyres respectively. 

On 10 Ootober 1990 the European Parliament delivered its opinion on first 
reading.  It approved the three proposals for directives subject to the 
amendments below. 

Th^ proposed amendments, which have *n  been accepted by the Commission, 
oonoern* 

(a)  the addition of two new recitals in the three proposals, the first 

fimphAiai vA r^g the need for total Tvwnrwni «flM m  in order fully to achieve 
the Single Market, and the second Indicating that the transition to 
total harmonization should take into account the spirit of the QXITYYP 
resolution concerning the new approach; 

(b)  in the case of the "glazing" proposal, an amendment to Artiole 8 

excluding from the scope of the directive plastic materials used in 
the construction of oaravans, the rear windows of convertibles and the 
side windows of off-road vehicles. 

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Amendments to the three proposals for Council, directives on: 

safety glazing and glazing materials on motor vehicles and tlial 

trailers; 

the masses and dlmenRlonB of motor vehicles of category HI; 

paeumatio 'byres for motor vehicles and their trailers. 

(0CM(89)653 final - SXN 236, 237 and 238). 

Amendments common to all three proposals: 

After the first recital, add the following two new recitals: 

"whereas the total harmonization method will be essential in order 

fully to achieve the Single Market, " 

"whereas this method will have to be used at the time of the revision 

of the entire  EEC type approval procedure, taking account of the 
spirit of the Council Resolution of 7 May 1985 concerning a new 

approach to the question of technical harmonization and 

standardisation," 

Additional amendment to the proposal for a directive on safety glazing: 

In Artiole 8, insert the following text between the first and second 

paragraphs: 

"This directive shall not apply to the plastic windows of caravans, to 

the plastio rear windows of convertibles and to the plastic side 

windows of off-road vehicles." 

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