Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 70/220/EEC concerning measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles
Date: 2000-09-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: air quality, motor vehicle, motor vehicle pollution, technological change

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Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council
Directive 70/220/EEC concerning measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from
motor vehicles

(2000/C 365 E/23)

(Text with EEA relevance)

COM(2000) 487 final (cid:16) 2000/0211(COD)

(Submitted by the Commission on 6 September 2000)

(4) Due to their emission characteristics, it is appropriate to
exempt vehicles with positive-ignition engines that run
only on gas fuel (LPG or NG) from the low temperature
test. Vehicles where
fitted for
the petrol
system is
emergency purposes or
starting only and where the
petrol tank cannot contain more than 15 litres of petrol,
should be regarded as vehicles that can only run on a
gaseous fuel.

(5) It

is appropriate to align the test

for low temperature
emissions at a normal
emissions with the
ambient
low temperature is
therefore restricted to vehicles of category M and N with
a maximum mass not exceeding 3 500 kg.

temperature. The test at

test

for

(6) Directive 70/220/EEC should be amended accordingly,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Annexes I and VII to Directive 70/220/EEC are amended in
accordance with the Annex to this Directive.

Article 2

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive by 30 June 2001. They shall forthwith inform the
Commission thereof.

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

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

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the (third) day following
its publication in the Official
the European
Communities.

Journal

of

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community and in particular Article 95 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
251 of the Treaty,

Whereas:

as

last

the laws of

(1) Council Directive 70/220/EEC of 20 March 1970 on the
the Member States on
approximation of
measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions
from vehicles (1),
amended by Commission
Directive 1999/102/EC (2) is one of the separate directives
under the type-approval procedure laid down by Council
Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approxi-
mation of the laws of the Member States relating to the
type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers (3), as last
amended
European
Parliament and of the Council (4).

by Directive 98/91/EC of

the

(2) Directive

as

amended

70/220/EEC,

emission limits

introduced specific

by Directive
98/69/EC (5),
for
carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons in combination with
a new test to measure those emissions at low temperatures
in order to adapt the behaviour of the emission control
system of vehicles of category M1 and category N1 class I
with positive-ignition engines to the ambient conditions
experienced in practice.

(3) The Commission have

determined

appropriate

low
temperature emission limits for vehicles of category N1
class II and III with positive-ignition engines.
It is now
also appropriate to include within the scope of the low
temperature test vehicles of category M1 with positive-
ignition engines designed to carry more
than six
occupants and vehicles of category M1 with positive-
ignition engines whose maximum mass exceeds 2 500 kg,
which were previously excluded.

(1) OJ L 76, 6.4.1970, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 334, 28.12.1999, p. 43.
(3) OJ L 42, 23.2.1970, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 11, 16.1.1999, p. 25.
(5) OJ L 350, 28.12.1998, p. 1.

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ANNEX

AMENDMENTS TO ANNEX I TO DIRECTIVE 70/220/EEC

1. Section 5.3.5. is modified as follows:

Footnote (1) is deleted.

2. Section 5.3.5.1. is replaced by the following:

=5.3.5.1. This test must be carried out on all vehicles of category M1 and N1 equipped with a positive-ignition engine
except such vehicles that only run on a gaseous fuel (LPG or NG). Vehicles that can be fuelled with both
petrol and a gaseous fuel, but where the petrol system is fitted for emergency purposes or starting only and
of which the petrol tank cannot contain more than 15 litres of petrol will be regarded for the Type VI test
as vehicles that can only run on a gaseous fuel.

Vehicles which can be fuelled with petrol and either LPG or NG shall be tested in the test Type VI on petrol
only.

From 1 January 2002, this section is applicable to new types of vehicles of category M1 and N1 class I,
except vehicles designed to carry more than six occupants and vehicles whose maximum mass exceeds
2 500 kg.

From 1 January 2003, this section is applicable to new types of vehicles of category M1 class II and III and
vehicles designed to carry more than six occupants and vehicles whose maximum mass exceeds 2 500 kg.?

3. The table in section 5.3.5.2. is replaced by the following table:

Category

Class

Mass of carbon monoxide
(CO)
L1 (g/km)

Mass of hydrocarbons
(HC)
L2 (g/km)

Test temperature 266 K (A7 BC)

M1 (1)

N1

N1 (2)

C

I

II

III

15

15

27

34

1,8

1,8

3,2

4,0

(1) Except vehicles designed to carry more than six occupants and vehicles whose maximum mass exceeds 2 500 kg.
(2) And those category M1 vehicles which are specified in note 1.

AMENDMENTS TO ANNEX VII TO DIRECTIVE 70/220/EEC

4. The first sentence of section 1 is modified as follows:

=1. This Annex applies only to vehicles with positive-ignition engines as defined in section 5.3.5. of Annex I.?

5. The first sentence of section 2.1.1 is modified as follows:

=2.1.1. This chapter deals with the equipment needed for low ambient temperature exhaust emission tests on vehicles

equipped with positive-ignition engines, as defined in section 5.3.5. of Annex I.?

6. Footnote (1) in section 4.3.3. is deleted.