Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C01210:reg:6:p17
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C01210
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 6 (pt 17/24)
Character Range: 45302–48118

A description of the vehicle and engine type comprising all the particulars referred to in annex 1.
        22.3 An engine and the equipment prescribed in annex 1 to the Regulation for fitting it to the vehicle to be approved shall be submitted to the technical service conducting the approval tests defined in paragraph 24 of the Regulation. However, if the manufacturer so requests and the technical service conducting the approval tests agrees, a test may be carried out on a vehicle representative of the vehicle type to be approved.

23. APPROVAL
        23.1 If the vehicle submitted for approval pursuant to this Regulation meets the requirements of paragraph 24 below, approval of that vehicle type shall be granted.
        23.2 An approval number shall be assigned to each vehicle type approved. Its first two digits (at present 03 corresponding to the 03 series of amendments which entered into force on 20 April 1986) 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.
        23.3 Notice of approval or of extension or of refusal of approval of a vehicle type pursuant to this Regulation shall be communicated to the Parties to the Agreement applying this Regulation by means of a form conforming to the model in annex 2 to this Regulation.
        23.4 There shall be affixed, conspicuously and in a readily accessible place specified on the approval form, to every vehicle conforming to a vehicle type approved under this Regulation an international approval mark consisting of:
        23.4.1 A circle surrounding the letter "E" followed by the distinguishing number of the country which has granted approval, l/
        23.4.2 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 5.4.1.
        23.4.3 The following additional symbols a rectangle surrounding a figure expressing in m -1 the corrected absorption coefficient obtained, at the time of approval, during the test under free acceleration, and determined at the time of approval by the procedure described in annex 5, paragraph 3.2, to this Regulation.
        23.5 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 23.4.1 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