{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2010-35/article-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2010-35/article-40.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2010/35",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2010/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 June 2010 on transportable pressure equipment and repealing Council Directives 76/767/EEC, 84/525/EEC, 84/526/EEC, 84/527/EEC and 1999/36/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2010-35",
  "path": "article/40",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Recognition of equivalence",
  "text": "1. EEC pattern approval certificates for transportable pressure equipment issued pursuant to Directives 84/525/EEC, 84/526/EEC and 84/527/EEC and EC design-examination certificates issued pursuant to Directive 1999/36/EC shall be recognised as equivalent to the type approval certificates referred to in the Annexes to Directive 2008/68/EC and shall be subject to the provisions on time-limited recognition of type approvals set out in those Annexes.\n2. Valves and accessories referred to in Article 3(3) of Directive 1999/36/EC and marked with the mark of Directive 97/23/EC according to Article 3(4) of Directive 1999/36/EC may still be used.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Directive 97/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 May 1997 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning pressure equipment (OJ L 181, 9.7.1997, p. 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2010/35/article/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:08.371244+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."
}