Commission Directive 1999/26/EC of 20 April 1999 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 93/94/EEC relating to the space for mounting the rear registration plate of two or three-wheel motor vehicles (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1999-04-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: harmonisation of standards, motor vehicle, technical standard, technological change, two-wheeled vehicle, vehicle registration

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COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 1999/26/EC

of 20 April 1999

adapting to technical progress Council Directive 93/94/EEC relating to the space
for mounting the rear registration plate of two or three-wheel motor vehicles

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

EC of
Council (4),

the European Parliament and of

the

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 92/61/EEC of 30
June 1992 relating to the type-approval of two or three-
wheel motor vehicles (1), as amended by the Act of Acces-
sion of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in particular
Article 16 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 93/94/EEC of 29
October 1993 relating to the space for mounting the rear
registration plate of two or three-wheel motor vehicles (2),
and in particular Article 3 thereof,

(1) Whereas Directive 93/94/EEC is one of the sepa-
rate Directives of the Community type-approval
procedure introduced by Directive 92/61/EEC;
whereas the provisions of Directive 92/61/EEC
relating to vehicle systems, components and tech-
nical units therefore apply to that Directive;

(2) Whereas developments in technology now permit
an adaptation of Council Directive 93/94/EEC to
technical progress; whereas in order to ensure the
proper functioning of the type-approval system as a
therefore necessary to clarify or
whole,
it
the Directive
complete
concerned;

is
certain provisions of

(3) Whereas to this end it is necessary to adapt the
relating to the load conditions of
provisions
vehicles when measuring the inclination and those
relating to the dimensions of spaces for mounting
the rear registration plate of quadricycles fitted with
a body as well as to align Figure 1 on the actual
position of vehicles during tests and to better
specify certain references in the information docu-
ment;

(4) Whereas the measures provided for in this Dir-
ective are in accordance with the opinion of the
Committee for Adaptation to Technical Progress
set up by Article 13 of Council Directive 70/
156/EEC (3), as last amended by Directive 98/91/

(1) OJ L 225, 10.8.1992, p. 72.
(2) OJ L 311, 14.12.1993, p. 83.
(3) OJ L 42, 23.2.1970, p. 1.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

The Annex to Directive 93/94/EEC is hereby amended in
accordance with the Annex to this Directive.

Article 2

1. With effect from 1 January 2000, Member States
shall not, on grounds relating to the space for mounting
the rear registration plate:

(cid:190) refuse,

in respect of a type of two or three-wheel

vehicle, to grant EC type-approval,

(cid:190) prohibit the registration, sale or entry into service of

two or three-wheel motor vehicles,

if
the space for mounting the rear registration plate
complies with the requirements of Directive 93/94/EEC
as amended by this Directive.

2. With effect from 1 July 2000, Member States shall
refuse to grant EC type-approval for any type of two or
three-wheel motor vehicle on grounds relating to the
space for mounting the rear registration plate if
the
requirements of Directive 93/94/EEC, as amended by this
Directive, are not fulfilled.

Article 3

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, no later than
31 December 1999, the provisions necessary to comply
with this Directive. They shall
forthwith inform the
Commission thereof.

They shall apply those provisions from 1 January 2000.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall
contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied
by such a reference on the occasion of their official publi-
cation. Member States shall determine how such reference
is to be made.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commis-
sion the texts of the main provisions of national law that
they adopt in the field governed by this Directive.

(4) OJ L 11, 16.1.1999, p. 25.

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

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Article 5

Done at Brussels, 20 April 1999.

For the Commission

Martin BANGEMANN

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

1. Item 1.1 is replaced by the following:

‘1.1. Mopeds and light quadricycles without a body'.

2. Item 1.2 is replaced by the following:

‘1.2. Motorcycles, tricycles up to a maximum power of 15 kW and quadricycles, other than light

quadricycles, without a body'.

3. Item 1.3 is replaced by the following:

‘1.3. Tricycles with a maximum power exceeding 15 kW, light quadricycles fitted with a body and

quadricycles other than light quadricycles fitted with a body'.

4. Item 3.1.2 is replaced by the following:

‘3.1.2. may be inclined from the vertical by not more than 30(cid:176), with the vehicle unladen, when the backing

plate for the registration number faces upwards;'.

5. Item 3.1.3 is replaced by the following:

‘3.1.3. may be inclined by not more than 15(cid:176) from the vertical, with the vehicle unladen, when the backing

plate for the registration number faces downwards;'.

6. Item 4.1 is replaced by the following:

‘4.1. No point on the space for mounting the registration plate may be more than 1,5 m above the

ground when the vehicle is unladen'.

7. Item 5.1 is replaced by the following:

‘5.1. No point on the space for mounting the registration plate shall be less than 0,20 m above the
ground or less than the radius of the wheel above the ground if that is less than 0,20 m, when the
vehicle is unladen'.

8. Figure 1 is replaced by the following:

‘

Angle of geometric visibility (dihedral with horizontal edge)'

9. Appendix 1 is replaced by the following:

Figure 1

‘Appendix 1

Information document in respect of the space for mounting the rear registration plate of a type
of two or three-wheel motor vehicle

(to be attached to the application for component type-approval where this is submitted separately from the
application for vehicle type-approval)

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Order No (assigned by the applicant):

The application for component type-approval in respect of the space for mounting the rear registration
plate of a type of two or three-wheel motor vehicle must contain the information set out in Annex II to
Council Directive 92/61/EEC, Part A, sections:

(cid:190) 0.1,

(cid:190) 0.2,

(cid:190) 0.4 to 0.6,

(cid:190) 2.2,

(cid:190) 2.2.1,

(cid:190) 9.6,

(cid:190) 9.6.1'.