# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1614 of 25 October 2018 laying down specifications for the vehicle registers referred to in Article 47 of Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending and repealing Commission Decision 2007/756/EC (Text with EEA relevance), Division 3.2.4: Historical records

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.
Status: repealed

All data in the EVR shall be retained for 10 years from the date of withdrawal of a vehicle registration. As a minimum, data shall be available on-line for the first three years. After three years, data may be archived. If at any time during the 10-year period an investigation involving a vehicle or vehicles is started, data relating to those vehicles shall be retained beyond the 10-year period if so required by investigating bodies referred to in Article 22 of Directive (EU) 2016/798 of the European Parliament and of the Council or national jurisdictions.
After withdrawal of a vehicle registration, any of the registration numbers assigned to the vehicle shall not be assigned to any other vehicle for 100 years from the date the vehicle registration is withdrawn.
Any changes to the data in the EVR shall be recorded.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/1614/annex/II/division/3/division/3.2/division/3.2.4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1614/annex-II/division-3/division-3.2/division-3.2.4
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.