{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-37/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-37/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1999/37",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 1999/37/EC of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-37",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Directive:\n(a) ‘vehicle’: shall mean any vehicle as defined in Article 2 of Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers and in Article 1 of Council Directive 92/61/EEC of 30 June 1992 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles;\n(b) ‘registration’: shall mean the administrative authorisation for the entry into service in road traffic of a vehicle, involving the identification of the latter and the issuing to it of a serial number, to be known as the registration number;\n(c) ‘registration certificate’: shall mean the document which certifies that the vehicle is registered in a Member State;\n(d) ‘holder of the registration certificate’: shall mean the person in whose name a vehicle is registered;\n(e) ‘ suspension ’ : means a limited period of time in which a vehicle is not authorised by a Member State to be used in road traffic following which – provided the reasons for suspension have ceased to apply – it may be authorised to be used again without involving a new process of registration;\n(f) ‘ cancellation of a registration ’ : means the cancellation of a Member State’s authorisation for a vehicle to be used in road traffic.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Directive 2014/46/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 amending Council Directive 1999/37/EC on the registration documents for vehicles."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Inserted by Directive 2014/46/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 amending Council Directive 1999/37/EC on the registration documents for vehicles."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 42, 23.2.1970, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 98/14/EC (OJ L 91, 25.3.1998, p. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 225, 10.8.1992, p. 72. Directive as amended by the 1994 Act of Accession."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1999/37/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:04.829702+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}