Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00147:body:0:p57
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00147
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Character Range: 190455–193392

vehicle type with respect to the items mentioned in paragraph 13.2. above;

       14.2.2. A list of the components necessary to identify rear‑view mirrors which can be installed in the vehicle;

       14.2.3. Drawings showing the position of the rear‑view mirror and its adapting components on the vehicle.

       14.3. A vehicle representative of the vehicle type to be approved shall be submitted to the technical service responsible for conducting the approval tests.

       14.4. The competent authority shall verify the existence of satisfactory arrangements for ensuring effective control of the conformity of production before type‑approval is granted.

15. APPROVAL

       15.1. If the vehicle type submitted for approval in accordance with paragraph 14 above meets the requirements of paragraph 16 of this Regulation, approval shall be granted.

       15.2. An approval number shall be assigned to each type approved.  Its first two digits (at present 00, for the Regulation in its original form) shall indicate the series of amendments incorporating the most recent major technical amendments made to the Regulation at the time of issue of the approval.  The same Contracting Party may not assign the same number to another vehicle type.

       15.3. Notice of approval or of extension or refusal of approval of a vehicle type pursuant to this Regulation shall be communicated to the Parties to the 1958 Agreement applying this Regulation, by means of a form conforming to the model in annex 2 to this Regulation.

       15.4. There shall be affixed, conspicuously and in a readily accessible place specified on the approval form, to every vehicle conforming to a type approved under this Regulation an international approval mark consisting of:

       15.4.1. A circle surrounding the letter "E" followed by the distinguishing number of the country which has granted approval,[4]

       15.4.2. The number of this Regulation, followed by the letter "R", a dash and the approval number to the right of the circle prescribed in paragraph 15.4.1.

       15.5. If the vehicle conforms to a vehicle type approved, under one or more other Regulations annexed to the Agreement, in the country which has granted approval under this Regulation, the symbol prescribed in paragraph 15.4.1. need not be repeated; in such a case, the Regulation and approval numbers and the additional symbols of all the Regulations under which approval has been granted in the country which has granted approval under this Regulation shall be placed in vertical columns to the right of the symbol prescribed in paragraph 15.4.1.

       15.6. The approval mark shall be clearly legible and be indelible.

       15.7. The approval mark shall be placed close to or on the vehicle data plate affixed by the manufacturer.

       15.8. Annex 4 to this Regulation gives examples of arrangements of the approval mark.

16. REQUIREMENTS

       16.1.