Commission Directive 2000/72/EC of 22 November 2000 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 93/31/EEC on stands for two-wheel motor vehicles (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2000-11-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: approval, marketing standard, motor vehicle, technical standard, two-wheeled vehicle, vehicle parts

L 300/18

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

29.11.2000

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2000/72/EC

of 22 November 2000

adapting to technical progress Council Directive 93/31/EEC on stands for two-wheel motor
vehicles

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

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 Directive 2000/7/EC of the Euro-
pean Parliament and of the Council (2), and in particular Article
16 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 93/31/EEC of 14 June 1993
on stands for two-wheel motor vehicles (3), and in particular
Article 3 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Directive 93/31/EEC is one of the separate directives
under the Community type-approval procedure intro-
duced by Directive 92/61/EEC. The provisions of
Directive 92/61/EEC relating to systems, components
and separate technical units for vehicles therefore apply
to that Directive.

Developments in technology now enable Directive 93/
31/EEC to be adapted to technical progress. In order to
enable the full type-approval system to function prop-
erly, it is therefore necessary to clarify or supplement
certain requirements of the Directive concerned.

To this end, it should be specified that when conducting
stability tests on an inclined surface, the transverse and
longitudinal tilt tests should be carried out separately.

The measures provided for in this Directive are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Committee for
Adaptation to Technical Progress set up under Article 13
of Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on
the approximation of the laws of the Member States
relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their
trailers (4), as last amended by European Parliament and
Council Directive 2000/40/EC (5),

(1) OJ L 225, 10.8.1992, p. 72.
(2) OJ L 106, 3.5.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 188, 29.7.1993, p. 19.
(4) OJ L 42, 23.2.1970, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 203, 10.8.2000, p. 9.

The Annex to Directive 93/31/EEC is hereby amended in
accordance with the Annex to this Directive.

Article 2

1. With effect from 1 January 2002, Member States may
not, on grounds relating to stands:

— refuse to grant EC type-approval for a type of two-wheel

motor vehicle, or

— prohibit the registration, sale or entry into service of two-

wheel motor vehicles;

if the stands of those vehicles comply with the requirements of
Directive 93/31/EEC, as amended by this Directive.

2. With effect from 1 July 2002, Member States shall refuse
to grant EC type-approval for any new type of two-wheel
motor vehicle on grounds relating to stands if the requirements
of Directive 93/31/EEC, as amended by this Directive, are not
fulfilled.

Article 3

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, no later than 31
December 2001, the provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.

They shall apply those provisions from 1 January 2002.

those provisions,

When Member States adopt
they shall
contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by
such a reference on 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 national law that they adopt in
the field governed by this Directive.

Article 4

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

29.11.2000

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 300/19

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Article 5

Done at Brussels, 22 November 2000.

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission

Section 6.2.2 is replaced by the following:

ANNEX

‘6.2.2. The parking platform is shifted to its minimum transverse tilt (TT) and then, separately, to its minimum

longitudinal tilt (LT) in accordance with the following table:

Tilt

TT (left and right)

Downstream LT

Upstream LT

See figures 1a, 1b and 2 below.’

Prop stand

Centre stand

Moped

Motorcycle

Moped

Motorcycle

5 %

5 %

6 %

6 %

6 %

8 %

6 %

6 %

12 %

8 %

8 %

14 %