CELEX: 51998PC0227
Language: en
Date: 1998-04-15
Title: Amended proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) on the recognition in intra-Community traffic of the distinguishing sign of the Member State in which motor vehicles and their trailers are registered

C 159/16            EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   26.5.98
             Amended proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) on the recognition in intra-Community traffic
             of the distinguishing sign of the Member State in which motor vehicles and their trailers are
                                                        registeredØ(Î)
                                                       (98/C 159/07)
                                                  (Text with EEA relevance)
                                          COM(1998) 227 final — 97/0199(SYN)
             (Submitted by the Commission pursuant to Article 189a(2) of the EC Treaty on 16 April 1998)
             (Î)ÙOJ C 290, 24.9.1997.
             The Commission proposal in document COM(97) 366 final — SYN 97/0199 is amended as
             follows:
                      ORIGINAL TEXT                                                     AMENDED TEXT
                                                      (Amendment 1)
                                                          Article 2
This Regulation shall apply to vehicles registered in the         This Regulation shall apply to vehicles and their trailers
Member States that are driven in the Community.                   registered in the Member States that are driven in the
                                                                  Community.
                                                      (Amendment 2)
                                                          Article 3
Member States requiring vehicles registered in another            Member States requiring vehicles and their trailers
Member State to display a distinguishing registration             registered in another Member State to display a distin-
sign when they are being driven on their territory shall          guishing registration sign when they are being driven on
recognise the distinguishing registration sign displayed in       their territory shall recognise the distinguishing regis-
accordance with the specifications in the annex to this           tration sign displayed on the left-hand side of the
Regulation.                                                       number plate in accordance with the specifications in the
                                                                  annex to this Regulation as being equivalent to any other
                                                                  distinguishing sign which they recognise for the purpose
                                                                  of identifying the State of registration of the vehicle.