Commission Directive 2000/74/EC of 22 November 2000 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 93/29/EEC on the identification of controls, tell-tales and indicators for two- or three-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

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COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2000/74/EC

of 22 November 2000

adapting to technical progress Council Directive 93/29/EEC on the identification of controls,
tell-tales and indicators for two- or three-wheel motor vehicles

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

trailers (6), as last amended by Directive 2000/40/EC of
the European Parliament and of the Council (7),

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 last amended by Directive 2000/7/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council (2), and in particular
Article 16 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 93/29/EEC of 14 June 1993
on the identification of controls, tell-tales and indicators for
two- or three-wheel motor vehicles (3), and in particular Article
4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Directive 93/29/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/
29/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, the requirements concerning the designa-
tion and identification of certain symbols should be
aligned with those of Council Directive 78/316/EEC of
21 December 1977 on the approximation of the laws of
the Member States relating to the interior fittings of
motor vehicles (identification of controls, tell-tales and
indicators) (4), as amended by Commission Directive 93/
91/EEC (5), and certain information contained in the
information document should be clarified.

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

(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. 1.
(4) OJ L 81, 28.3.1978, p. 3.
(5) OJ L 284, 19.11.1993, p. 25.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Annexes I and II to Directive 93/29/EEC are 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 the identification of controls, tell-
tales and indicators:

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

three-wheel motor vehicle, or

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

or three-wheel motor vehicles,

the identification of controls,

tell-tales and indicators
if
complies with the requirements of Directive 93/29/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- or three-
wheel motor vehicle on grounds relating to the identification of
controls,
the requirements of
Directive 93/79/EEC, as amended by this Directive, are not
fulfilled.

tell-tales and indicators

if

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 publiclation.
Member States shall determine how such reference is to be
made.

(6) OJ L 42, 23.2.1970, p. 1.
(7) OJ L 203, 10.8.2000, p. 9.

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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.

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Article 5

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 22 November 2000.

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

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

I. Annex I is hereby amended as follows:

1. Section 2.1.1.

is replaced by the following text:

‘2.1.1. These symbols shall stand out clearly against the background’.

2. Section 2.1.5.

is amended as follows:

— the following is added to the caption to figure 3:

if there are separate tell-tales for the left and right direction indicators, the two arrows may also be used

‘Note:
separately.’

— figure 12 is replaced by the following:

‘Figure 12

Rear fog lamp (3)

Tell-tale colour: amber’

— the caption to figure 13 is replaced by the following:

‘Figure 13

Engine ignition or cut-off control in “out of use” position’

— the caption to figure 14 is replaced by the following text:

‘Figure 14

Engine ignition or cut-off control in the “operating” position’

— figure 15 is replaced by the following:

‘Figure 15

Lighting switch

Tell-tale colour: green’

— the caption to figure 16 is replaced by the following text:

‘Figure 16

Position (side) lamps

(if the control

is not separate,

it may be identified by the symbol shown in figure 15)

Tell-tale colour: green’

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— figure 17 is deleted.

— figures 18 and 19 are renumbered 17 and 18 respectively.

— note (1) is replaced by the following:

‘(1) The framed areas may be solid.’

II. Annex II is amended as follows:

Appendix 1 is replaced by the following text:

‘Appendix 1

Information document in respect of the identification of controls, tell-tales and indicators for a type of two- or
three-wheel motor vehicle

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

Order number (assigned by the applicant):

The application for a component type-approval in respect of the identification of controls, tell-tales and indicators of a type
of two- or three-wheel motor vehicle shall contain the information set out under the following points in Annex II to
Council Directive 92/61/EEC, Part A:

— 0.1
— 0.2
— 0.4 to 0.6
— 9.2.1.’