2003/525/EC: Commission Decision of 18 July 2003 deferring the date of implementation of Council Directive 1999/36/EC for certain transportable pressure equipment (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2003) 2591)
Date: 2003-07-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EC conformity marking, application of EU law, packaging product, pressure equipment, roadworthiness tests, safety standard, transport of dangerous goods, transport safety

22.7.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 183/45

COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 July 2003

deferring the date of implementation of Council Directive 1999/36/EC for certain transportable
pressure equipment

(notified under document number C(2003) 2591)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2003/525/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accor-
dance with the opinion of the Committee on the trans-
port of dangerous goods set up under Article 9 of Direc-
tive 94/55/EC,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The date of
implementation of Directive 1999/36/EC is
deferred to 1 July 2005 for pressure drums, bundles of cylin-
ders and tanks.

Article 2

Member States shall authorise the placing on the market and
putting into service of the equipment referred to in Article 1
which complies with the regulations in force within their terri-
tory before 1 July 2005 until 24 months from that date and
shall authorise the subsequent putting into service of such
equipment placed on the market prior to that date.

This Decision shall apply from 1 July 2003.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 18 July 2003.

For the Commission

Loyola DE PALACIO

Vice-President

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 1999/36/EC of 29 April
1999 on transportable pressure equipment (1) as last amended
by Commission Directive 2002/50/EC (2), and in particular
Article 17(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

There are no detailed technical
specifications and
adequate references to the relevant European standards
have not been added to the Annexes to Council Direc-
tive 94/55/EC of 21 November 1994 on the approxima-
tion of the laws of the Member States with regard to the
transport of dangerous goods by road (3), as
last
amended by Commission Directive 2003/28/EC of 7
April 2003 (4) and to Council Directive 96/49/CE of 23
July 1996 on the approximation of the laws of the
Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous
goods by rail (5), as last amended by Commission Direc-
tive 2003/29/EC of 7 April 2003 (6), for the pressure
drums, bundles of cylinders and tanks referred to in
Article 2 of Directive 1999/36/EC. Consequently, the
date of implementation of Directive 94/55/EC should
therefore be deferred as regards this transportable pres-
sure equipment.

Article 18 of Directive 1999/36/EC provides that, during
a transitional period of 24 months as from the imple-
mentation of
that Directive, Member States must
authorise the placing on the market and putting into
service of
equipment which
complies with the regulations in force within their terri-
tory before 1 July 2001. Consequently,
the date of
expiry of that period should also be deferred.

transportable pressure

(1) OJ L 138, 1.6.1999, p. 20.
(2) OJ L 149, 7.6.2002, p. 28.
(3) OJ L 319, 12.12.1994, p. 7.
(4) OJ L 90, 8.4.2003, p. 45.
(5) OJ L 235, 17.9.1996, p. 25.
(6) OJ L 90, 8.4.2003, p. 47.