Directive 2000/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 March 2000 on speedometers for two- or three-wheel motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 92/61/EEC on the type-approval of two- or three-wheel motor vehicles

Directive 2000/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 20 March 2000
on speedometers for two- or three-wheel motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 92/61/EEC on the type-approval of two- or three-wheel motor vehicles
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 95 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee(2),
Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty(3),
Whereas:
(1) Road safety is a fundamental Community objective which requires speed to be monitored and checked by means of a speedometer, with a view to raising awareness, particularly among young people, of the need for proper road use.
(2) The technical legislation on road safety should be adopted in a cohesive fashion, in the form of "packages" of directives, so as to raise public awareness of the European Union's contribution to enhancing road safety.
(3) In every Member State, two- or three-wheel motor vehicles must, as regards speedometers, display certain technical characteristics laid down as compulsory requirements that vary from Member State to Member State; such variation constitutes an obstacle to intra-Community trade.
(4) Such obstacles to the functioning of the internal market can be eliminated by the adoption of the same requirements by all the Member States in lieu of their existing rules and regulations.
(5) This Directive is to be added to the separate Directives that must be complied with under Article 4 of Council Directive 92/61/EEC of 30 June 1992 relating to the type-approval of two- or three-wheel motor vehicles(4).
(6) The introduction of harmonised requirements for speedometers in two- or three-wheel motor vehicles is necessary in order to permit implementation, for each type of those vehicles, of the type-approval and approval procedures laid down by Directive 92/61/EEC.
(7) In accordance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty, the objective of the action envisaged, namely Community type-approval by type of vehicle, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, in view of the scale and the impact of the action proposed, be better achieved at the Community level. This Directive limits itself to the minimum required for the attainment of that objective and does not go beyond what is necessary for that purpose.
(8) To facilitate access to the markets of non-member countries, it is clearly necessary to establish equivalence between the requirements of this Directive and those of Regulation No 39 of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations (hereinafter referred to as "UN-ECE Regulation No 39").
(9) The Member States of the European Union must negotiate as soon as possible an amendment to UN-ECE Regulation No 39 to align it with the provisions of this Directive.
(10) Directive 92/61/EEC should therefore be amended accordingly,