CELEX: 51991PC0038(01)
Language: en
Date: 1991-02-08
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON SAFETY GLAZING AND GLAZING MATERIALS ON MOTOR VEHICLES AND THEIR TRAILERS

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                          C0M(91) 38 final - SYN 236, 237, 238
                                          Brussels, 8 February 1991
                        Amendments to the proposais for
                              ODracn. nnœnvES
                                       on
       safety glazing and glazing materials on motor vehicles and their SYN 236
       trailers;
       tbe masses and dimensions of motor vehicles of category Ml;       SYN 237
       pneumatic tyres for motor vehicles and their trailers.            SYN 238
  (Submitted by the Commission pursuant to Artiole 149(3) of the EEC Treaty).
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On 12 Feibruary 1990 the Commission sent to 12)6 Council three proposals for
directives on:
     safety glazing and glazing materials on motor vehicles and their
     trailers;
     masses and dimensions of motor vehicles of category HI;
     pneumatic tyres for motor vehicles and their trailers.
The proposals in question replaced those sent to the Council on
20 September 1972 (O0M(72)981 final) and 31 December 1976 (OOM(76)701 final
and O0M(76)712 final) concerning glazing, masses and dimensions and
pneumatic tyres respectively.
On 10 Ootober 1990 the European Parliament delivered its opinion on first
reading. It approved the three proposals for directives subject to the
amendments below.
Th^ proposed amendments, which have * n been accepted by the Commission,
oonoern*
 (a) the addition of two new recitals in the three proposals, the first
     fimphAiai vA r^g the need for total Tvwnrwni «flM m in order fully to achieve
     the Single Market, and the second Indicating that the transition to
     total harmonization should take into account the spirit of the QXITYYP
     resolution concerning the new approach;
 (b) in the case of the "glazing" proposal, an amendment to Artiole 8
     excluding from the scope of the directive plastic materials used in
     the construction of oaravans, the rear windows of convertibles and the
     side windows of off-road vehicles.
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Amendments to the three proposals for Council, directives on:
     safety glazing and glazing materials on motor vehicles and tlial
     trailers;
     the masses and dlmenRlonB of motor vehicles of category HI;
     paeumatio 'byres for motor vehicles and their trailers.
(0CM(89)653 final - SXN 236, 237 and 238).
Amendments common to all three proposals:
     After the first recital, add the following two new recitals:
      "whereas the total harmonization method will be essential in order
     fully to achieve the Single Market, "
      "whereas this method will have to be used at the time of the revision
     of the entire EEC type approval procedure, taking account of the
     spirit of the Council Resolution of 7 May 1985 concerning a new
     approach to the question of technical harmonization and
     standardisation,"
Additional amendment to the proposal for a directive on safety glazing:
      In Artiole 8, insert the following text between the first and second
     paragraphs:
      "This directive shall not apply to the plastic windows of caravans, to
      the plastio rear windows of convertibles and to the plastic side
      windows of off-road vehicles."
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