Commission Directive 2006/120/EC of 27 November 2006 correcting and amending Directive 2005/30/EC amending, for the purposes of their adaptation to technical progress, Directives 97/24/EC and 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-11-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: anti-pollution device, motor vehicle, technical regulations, technical standard, two-wheeled vehicle

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Official Journal of the European Union

28.11.2006

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2006/120/EC

of 27 November 2006

correcting and amending Directive 2005/30/EC amending, for the purposes of their adaptation to
technical progress, Directives 97/24/EC and 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council, relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(6)

The measures provided for
in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Adap-
tation to Technical Progress,

this Directive

are

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

regard to Directive 97/24/EC of

Having
the European
Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 1997 on certain
components and characteristics of two- or three-wheel motor
vehicles (1), and in particular Article 7 thereof,

the European
Having regard to Directive 2002/24/EC of
Parliament and of the Council of 18 March 2002 relating to
the type-approval of two- and three-wheel motor vehicles and
repealing Council Directive 92/61/EEC (2), and in particular
Article 17 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Commission Directive 2005/30/EC contains some errors
which must be corrected.

It is necessary to clarify with the retroactive effect that
Article 3(1) of Directive 2005/30/EC concerns new
replacement catalytic converters, which comply with
Directive
Directive
2005/30/EC.

97/24/EC

amended

by

as

Editorial corrections should also be made in Annex I to
Directive 2005/30/EC.

Furthermore, it is necessary to make clear, by way of a
new provision, that the sale or installation on a vehicle of
replacement catalytic converters which are not of a type
in respect of which a type-approval has been granted in
compliance with Directive 97/24/EC, as amended by
2005/30/EC,
is forbidden after a certain transitional
period.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Directive 2005/30/EC is corrected as follows:

1. Article 3(1) is replaced by the following:

‘1. With effect from 18 May 2006 Member States shall
not,
in respect of new replacement catalytic converters
complying with the requirements of Directive 97/24/EC as
amended by this Directive and which are intended to be
fitted on vehicles
that have been type-approved in
accordance with Directive 97/24/EC:

(a) refuse to grant EC type-approval pursuant to Article 4(1)

of Directive 2002/24/EC;

(b) prohibit the sale or installation on a vehicle.’

2. In Annex I, ‘section 5 of Annex VI’ is replaced by ‘section 4a

of Annex VI’ throughout the text.

Article 2

The following paragraph 3 is added to Article 3 of Directive
2005/30/EC:

(5)

Directive 2005/30/EC should therefore be corrected and
amended accordingly.

(1) OJ L 226, 18.8.1997, p. 1. Directive as

last amended by

Commission Directive 2006/27/EC (OJ L 66, 8.3.2006, p. 7).
(2) OJ L 124, 9.5.2002, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission

Directive 2005/30/EC (OJ L 106, 27.4.2005, p. 17).

‘3. With effect from 1 January 2009, Member States shall
refuse the sale or installation on a vehicle of replacement
catalytic converters which are not of a type in respect of
which a type-approval has been granted in compliance
with Directive 97/24/EC, as amended by this Directive.’

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Article 3

Article 4

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive by 30 September 2007 at
the latest. They shall
forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those
provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and
this Directive.

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

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the
text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in
the field covered by this Directive.

This Directive shall enter into force on the day of its publication
in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 5

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 November 2006.

For the Commission

Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President