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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-120/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2006/120",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Directive 2006/120/EC of 27 November 2006 correcting and amending Directive 2005/30/EC amending, for the purposes of their adaptation to technical progress, Directives 97/24/EC and 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-120",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Directive 2006/120/EC\nof 27 November 2006\ncorrecting and amending Directive 2005/30/EC amending, for the purposes of their adaptation to technical progress, Directives 97/24/EC and 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles\n(Text with EEA relevance)\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Directive 97/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 1997 on certain components and characteristics of two- or three-wheel motor vehicles, and in particular Article 7 thereof,\nHaving regard to Directive 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 March 2002 relating to the type-approval of two- and three-wheel motor vehicles and repealing Council Directive 92/61/EEC, and in particular Article 17 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nCommission Directive 2005/30/EC contains some errors which must be corrected.\n(2)\nIt is necessary to clarify with the retroactive effect that Article 3(1) of Directive 2005/30/EC concerns new replacement catalytic converters, which comply with Directive 97/24/EC as amended by Directive 2005/30/EC.\n(3)\nEditorial corrections should also be made in Annex I to Directive 2005/30/EC.\n(4)\nFurthermore, it is necessary to make clear, by way of a new provision, that the sale or installation on a vehicle of replacement catalytic converters which are not of a type in respect of which a type-approval has been granted in compliance with Directive 97/24/EC, as amended by 2005/30/EC, is forbidden after a certain transitional period.\n(5)\nDirective 2005/30/EC should therefore be corrected and amended accordingly.\n(6)\nThe measures provided for this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Adaptation to Technical Progress,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 226, 18.8.1997, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2006/27/EC (OJ L 66, 8.3.2006, p. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 124, 9.5.2002, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2005/30/EC (OJ L 106, 27.4.2005, p. 17)."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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