Road Traffic Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2011 and come into force on 14th January 2012. Revocation of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 2 The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 are revoked. Amendment of Regulations 3 The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 are amended as follows. End-of-series exemption 4 1 For regulation 61C (“end-of-series exemption”), substitute— End-of-series exemption 61C 1 The requirements in articles 4 to 6 and 10 and Annex 1 of European Community Regulation 715/2007 shall— a in relation to complete end-of-series vehicles— i of category N 1 class II and III, and ii of category N 2 having a reference mass not exceeding 2,610 kilograms, be deemed to be fulfilled for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 31st December 2012; b in relation to end-of-series completed multi-stage build vehicles of category N 1 class I, be deemed to be fulfilled for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 30th June 2012; c in relation to end-of-series completed multi-stage build vehicles— i of category N 1 class II and III, and ii of category N 2 having a reference mass not exceeding 2,610 kilograms, be deemed to be fulfilled for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 30th June 2013. 2 The requirements in articles 4 to 6 and 8 and Annex I of European Community Regulation 595/2009 shall— a for category N 2 end-of-series vehicles having a reference mass exceeding 2,610 kilograms, and b category N 3 end-of-series vehicles, be deemed to be fulfilled, in relation to complete vehicles, for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 30th December 2014, or in the case of completed multi-stage build vehicles, beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 29th June 2015. 3 For the purpose of paragraphs (1) and (2), a vehicle is an end-of-series vehicle if— a three months or more before the relevant date, a certificate of conformity or a Minister’s approval certificate issued under section 58(4) of the 1988 Act was in force for the vehicle, and the Minister’s approval certificate issued under section 58(1) of that Act or type approval certificate (as the case may be) had been issued by virtue of an emissions requirement that— i then applied to the vehicle, but ii apart from this regulation, would have ceased to apply on the relevant date, and b it is in the territory of an EEA state on the relevant date. 4 In this regulation— “category N 1 class I” means a motor vehicle with at least 4 wheels designed or constructed for the carriage of goods and having a reference mass not exceeding 1,305 kilograms; “category N 1 class II” means a motor vehicle with at least 4 wheels designed or constructed for the carriage of goods and having a reference mass exceeding 1,305 kilograms but not exceeding 1,760 kilograms; “category N 1 class III” means a motor vehicle with at least 4 wheels designed or constructed for the carriage of goods and having a reference mass exceeding 1,760 kilograms; “category N 2 ” and “category N 3 ” have the respective meanings given in Annex II to Directive 2007/46/EC ; “ complete vehicle ” means any vehicle which need not be completed in order to meet the relevant technical requirements of Directive 2007/46/EC ; “ completed multi-stage build vehicle ” means a vehicle resulting from the process of multi-stage type-approval which meets the relevant technical requirements of Directive 2007/46/EC ; “ reference mass ” has the meaning given in Article 3(3) of European Community Regulation 715/2007; “ relevant date ” means— in relation to vehicles to which paragraph (1) applies, the date on which the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2011 come into force, and in relation to vehicles to which paragraph (2) applies, 31st December 2013. . 5 After regulation 61C, insert— Review of regulations 61 to 61B 61D 1 The Secretary of State must from time to time— a carry out a review of regulations 61 to 61B, which relate to emissions, b set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and c publish the report. 2 In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how, in so far as they make provision in relation to emissions— a the Framework Directive, and b Directives 70/220/EEC , 88/77/EEC , 2005/55/EC and 2006/40/EC , which are implemented by means of various provisions in these Regulations and by the Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2009 , are implemented in other Member States. 3 The report must in particular— a set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by these Regulations to the extent that they relate to emissions, b assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and c assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation. 4 The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with 14th January 2012. 5 Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years. . Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport Theresa Villiers Minister of State Department for Transport 21st December 2011