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Article 7 Implementing measures

United Kingdom

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1.

By 4 July 2007, the Commission shall adopt the measures for the implementation of Article 4 and Article 5, and in particular:

(a)

the administrative provisions for the EC type-approval of vehicles; and

(b)

a harmonised leakage detection test for measuring the leakage rate of fluorinated greenhouse gases with a global warming potential higher than 150 from air-conditioning systems.

2.

The Commission shall adopt the measures in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 13 of Directive 70/156/EEC.

3.

The Commission shall publish these measures in the Official Journal of the European Union.

4.

The procedure referred to in paragraph 2 shall apply to the adoption, where appropriate, of:

(a)

measures needed to ensure the safe functioning and proper servicing of refrigerants in mobile air-conditioning systems;

(b)

measures relating to the retrofitting of in-use vehicles with air-conditioning systems and the refilling of in-use air-conditioning systems to the extent not covered by Article 6;

(c)

the adaptation of the method for determining the relevant global warming potential of preparations.