CELEX: 51988PC0286
Language: en
Date: 1988-05-20
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 85/3/EEC ON THE WEIGHTS, DIMENSIONS AND CERTAIN OTHER TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CERTAIN ROAD VEHICLES

No C 173/12                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                    2. 7. 88
                          Article 8                                3.     Member States shall communicate to the
                                                                   Commission the text of the main provisions of national
1.    Member States shall bring into force the laws,               law which they adopt in the field covered by this
regulations and administrative provisions necessary to             Directive.
comply with this Directive by 1 January 1990. They shall
inform the Commission thereof.
2.    Member States may provide that in the case of                                            Article 9
companies already in existence on 1 January 1990 this
Directive shall not apply until 1 January 1991.                    This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
             Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 85/3/EEC on the weights, dimensions and
                                certain other technical characteristics of certain road vehicles
                                                      COM(88) 286 final
                                       (Submitted by the Commission on 25 May 1988)
                                                       . (88/C 173/11)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            1. Article 7 is replaced by the following:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   Article 7
Economic Community, and in particular Article 75
thereof,                                                               After consulting the Commission, Member States shall
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                     take the measures necessary to comply with this
                                                                       Directive:
Having regard      to   the    opinion   of   the   European
Parliament,                                                            — as from 1 July 1986 as regards application of all
                                                                           provisions other than Article 4 and Annex II, as
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                           well as points 2.3 and 3.4 of Annex I,
Social Committee,
                                                                       — as from 1 January 1990 as regards the application
Whereas Directive 85/3/EEC ('), as amended by
                                                                            of Article 4, point 2.3 of Annex I and Annex II,
Directive 86/360/EEC (2), lays down maximum auth-
orized dimensions of all vehicles intended for the
                                                                       — as from 1 January 1992 as regards the application
transport of goods above 3,5 tonnes and maximum auth-
                                                                            of point 3.4 of Annex I.
orized vehicle weights and axle weights only of five- or
six-axle combined vehicles and trailers forming part of
                                                                       Member States shall inform the Commission of the
combined vehicles;
                                                                       measures they take to implement this Directive.'.
Whereas the maximum authorized vehicle weight and
drive axle weight of two-axle rigid vehicles should be              2. The following point is inserted in Annex I:
fixed as well,
                                                                       '2.3. Two-axle rigid vehicles                 18 tonnes';
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
                                                                    3. Point 3.4 of Annex I is replaced by the following:
                          Article 1
Council Directive 85/3/EEC is hereby amended as                        '3.4. Driving axle of vehicles referred to in points 2.2
follows:                                                               and 2.3                                     11,5 tonnes'.
                                                                                               Article 2
O OJ No L 2, 3. 1. 1985, p. 14.
 (2) OJ No L 217, 5. 8. 1986, p. 19.                                This Directive is addressed to the Member States.