CELEX: 51992PC0042
Language: en
Date: 1992-03-25
Title: Amendment to the proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) ON THE TYPE-APPROVAL OF TWO OR THREE-WHEEL MOTOR VEHICLES

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                        C0M(92) 42 final - SYN 331
                                        Brussels, 25 March 1992
                  Amendment to the proposal for a
                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
     ON THE TYPE-APPROVAL OF TWO OR THREE-WHEEL MOTOR VEHICLES
      (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 149(3)
                         of the EEC-Treaty)
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                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
On 15 March 1991 the Commission sent the Council a proposal for a Regulation
on the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles [COM(90)669 final -
 SYN 331].
On 11 December 1991 the European Parliament delivered its opinion on first
reading and Invited the Commission to amend its propsal in accordance with the
provisions of Article 149(3) of the EEC Treaty.
The seven amendments accepted either partly or in their entirety by the
Commission concern the following:
    two recitals (the sixth and the eighth): the deletion of the sixth recital
     is intended to reduce the two categories of moped to a single category.
    The amendment of the eighth recital is aimed at the presentation, by the
    Commission, of the 24 separate regulations within a single document.   That
    amendment has been accepted in part in that the Commission has agreed to
    submit the proposals in packages containing the greatest possible number
    of proposals;
    three articles (Articles 1, 4 and 14): the amendment of Article 1 concerns
    the addition of details regarding the exclusion from the scope of the
    Regulation of vehicles intended for use in competitions; the amendment of
    Article 4 is intended to improve the wording of the reference to vehicles
    covered by the provisions relating to the checking of production
    conformity, and the amendment of Article 14, i.e. deletion of (3), is
    intended - Just like the sixth recital - to reduce the two categories of
    moped to a single category;
    Annex I: the addition of two new indents is intended to apply or exclude
    the requirements of certain separate regulations in respect of
    low-performance mopeds.   That amendment has been accepted in part in that
    the principle but not the wording put forward is accepted.
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                    Amendment to the proposal for a
                        COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
       ON THE TYPE-APPROVAL OF TWO OR THREE-WHEEL MOTOR VEHICLES
Sixth recital :
    deleted.
Eighth recital :
    on the third line following the words "separate regulations" the following
    should be added: "and whereas the relevant proposals will be submitted in
    packages containing the greatest possible number of those proposals".
Article 1(1)(2) third indent:
    should read: "vehicles intended for use in competitions either on or off
    roads".
Article 4(2):
    the words "placed on the market and used" are replaced by the words "put
    on sale and newly brought into service" and the words "sold and used" by
    the words "and sold new".
Article 14(3):
    deleted.
Annex I :
    the following subparagraph should be added at the end of this Annex:
    "The separate regulations will provide for specific requirements relating
    to reduced-performance mopeds, in other words mopeds fitted with pedals
    and an auxiliary power unit developing not more than 1 kW, and having a
    maximum design speed not exceeding 25 km/h.   These separate requirements
    will relate, in particular, to the components and characteristics referred
    to under headings Nos 19, 20, 29, 32, 33, 34, 41, 43 and 46 in this
    Annex."
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