Commission Directive 98/39/EC of 5 June 1998 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 75/321/EEC relating to the steering equipment of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1998-06-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural vehicle, national implementing measure, technical regulations, technological change, tractor

16. 6. 98

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 170/15

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 98/39/EC

of 5 June 1998

adapting to technical progress Council Directive 75/321/EEC relating to the
steering equipment of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

2.

From 1 October 1999, Member States:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 75/321/EEC of 20
May 1975 on the approximation of
the
Member States relating to the steering equipment of
last
wheeled agricultural or
amended by European Parliament and Council Directive
97/54/EC (2), and in particular Article 4 thereof,

the laws of

tractors (1),

forestry

as

Whereas it is now appropriate to regard a motor break-
down as a potential cause of failure of the special as-
sistance device which could cause the steering to lock;

Whereas Directive 75/321/EEC should therefore be
amended accordingly;

Whereas the provisions of this Directive are in line with
the opinion of the Committee on Adaptation to Tech-
nical
by Council Directive
74/150/EEC (3), as last amended by Directive 97/54/EC,

introduced

Progress

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

In the Annex to Directive 75/321/EEC, the first sentence
in item 2.2.4.1.2 is replaced by the following:

‘If the tractor is fitted with servo-steering equipment
as defined in 1.2.1.3, and provided that such equip-
ment has a wholly hydraulic steering gear, it must be
possible, should the special device or motor fail, to
carry out
the two manoeuvres specified in 2.2.1.3
using a special additional device’.

Article 2

1.

From 1 May 1999 no Member State may:

— refuse, in respect of a type of tractor, to grant EC type-
approval, to issue the document referred to in the
third indent of Article 10(1) of Council Directive
74/150/EEC, or to grant national type-approval, or

— to prohibit the entry into service of tractors,

those tractors meet

if
75/321/EEC, as amended by this Directive.

the requirements of Directive

(1) OJ L 147, 9. 6. 1975, p. 24.
(2) OJ L 277, 10. 10. 1997, p. 24.
(3) OJ L 84, 28. 3. 1974, p. 10.

— may no longer issue the document referred to in the
third indent of Article 10(1) of Directive 74/150/EEC
for any type of tractor that does not meet the require-
ments of Directive 75/321/EEC, as amended by this
Directive,

— may refuse to grant national type-approval in respect
of any type of tractor that does not meet the require-
ments of Directive 75/321/EEC, as amended by this
Directive.

Article 3

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regu-
lations and administrative provisions necessary in order to
comply with this Directive not later than 30 April 1999.
They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.

When Member States adopt these provisions, these shall
contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accom-
panied by such reference at the time of their official
publication. The procedure for such reference shall be
adopted by Member States.

2. Member States shall transmit to the Commission the
text of the essential provisions of national law that they
adopt in the area covered by this Directive.

Article 4

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

Article 5

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 5 June 1998.

For the Commission

Martin BANGEMANN

Member of the Commission