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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-40/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-40/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2006/40",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2006/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 relating to emissions from air-conditioning systems in motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-40",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Implementing measures",
  "text": "1. By 4 July 2007, the Commission shall adopt the measures for the implementation of Article 4 and Article 5, and in particular:\n(a) the administrative provisions for the EC type-approval of vehicles; and\n(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.\n2. The Commission shall adopt the measures in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 13 of Directive 70/156/EEC.\n3. The Commission shall publish these measures in the Official Journal of the European Union.\n4. The procedure referred to in paragraph 2 shall apply to the adoption, where appropriate, of:\n(a) measures needed to ensure the safe functioning and proper servicing of refrigerants in mobile air-conditioning systems;\n(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;\n(c) the adaptation of the method for determining the relevant global warming potential of preparations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2006/40/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:37.162866+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."
}