Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00356:front:0:p34
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00356
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manufacturer's in-service conformity procedure, including:

                   (a) Identification of the vehicles included in the programme (whether tested or not). The identification shall include the following:

                    (i) Model name;

                    (ii) Vehicle identification number (VIN);

                    (iii) Vehicle registration number;

                    (iv) Date of manufacture;

                    (v) Region of use (where known);

                    (vi) Tyres fitted.

                   (b) The reason(s) for rejecting a vehicle from the sample;

                   (c) Service history for each vehicle in the sample (including any re-works);

                   (d) Repair history for each vehicle in the sample (where known);

                   (e) Test data, including the following:

                    (i) Date of test;

                    (ii) Location of test;

                    (iii) Distance indicated on vehicle odometer;

                    (iv) Test fuel specifications (e.g. test reference fuel or market fuel);

                    (v) Test conditions (temperature, humidity, dynamometer inertia   weight);

                    (vi) Dynamometer settings (e.g. power setting);

                    (vii) Test results (from at least three different vehicles per family).

              9.2.5.12.  Records of indication from the OBD system.

              9.3.  Selection of vehicles for in-service conformity

              9.3.1.  The information gathered by the manufacturer shall be sufficiently comprehensive to ensure that in-service performance can be assessed for normal conditions of use as defined in paragraph 9.2. The manufacturer's sampling shall be drawn from at least two Contracting Parties with substantially different vehicle operating conditions. Factors such as differences in fuels, ambient conditions, average road speeds, and urban/highway driving split shall be taken into consideration in the selection of the Contracting Parties.

              9.3.2.  In selecting the Contracting Parties for sampling vehicles, the manufacturer may select vehicles from a Contracting Party that is considered to be particularly representative. In this case, the manufacturer shall demonstrate to the Approval Authority which granted the type approval that the selection is representative (e.g. by the market having the largest annual sales of a vehicle family within the applicable Contracting Party). When an in-service family requires more than one sample lot to be tested as defined in paragraph 9.3.5., the vehicles in the second and third sample lots shall reflect different vehicle operating conditions from those selected for the first sample.

              9.3.3.  The emissions testing may be done at a test facility which is located in a different market or region from where the vehicles have been selected.

              9.3.4.  The in-service conformity tests by the manufacturer shall be continuously carried out reflecting the production cycle of applicable vehicles types within a given in-service vehicle family. The maximum time period between commencing two in-service conformity checks shall not exceed 18 months. In the case of vehicle types covered by an extension to the type approval that did not require an emissions test, this period may be extended up to 24 months.

              9.3.5.  When applying the statistical procedure defined in Appendix 4, the number of sample lots shall depend on the annual