{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-38/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-38/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2007/38",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2007/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on the retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles registered in the Community",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-38",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. This Directive shall apply to vehicles of categories N2 and N3 which are not type-approved or approved as a single vehicle under Directive 2003/97/EC.\n2. This Directive shall not apply to any of the following:\n(a) Vehicles of categories N2 and N3 registered before 1 January 2000;\n(b) Vehicles of category N2 having a maximum total permissible mass not exceeding 7,5 tons, where it is impossible to mount a class V mirror in a way that ensures that the following conditions are fulfilled:\n(i) no part of the mirror is less than 2 m (a tolerance of + 10 cm may be applied) from the ground, regardless of the adjustment position, when the vehicle is under a load corresponding to its maximum technically permissible weight; and\n(ii) the mirror is fully visible from the driving position;\n(c) Vehicles of categories N2 and N3 that are subject to national measures which entered into force before the dates for transposition of Directive 2003/97/EC and which require fitment, on the passenger side, of other means of indirect vision covering not less than 95 % of the total field of vision at ground level of class IV and class V mirrors under that Directive.",
  "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/2007/38/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:27.051314+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."
}