{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-706/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-706/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2007/706",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 706/2007 of 21 June 2007 laying down, pursuant to Directive 2006/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, administrative provisions for the EC type-approval of vehicles, and a harmonised test for measuring leakages from certain air conditioning systems (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-706",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Administrative provisions for EC component type-approval",
  "text": "1. The manufacturer or his representative shall submit to the type-approval authority the application for EC component type-approval for a type of leak component or air-conditioning system.\nThe application shall be drawn up in accordance with the model of the information document set out in Part 1 of Annex I.\n2. The manufacturer or his representative shall submit to the technical service responsible for conducting the type-approval tests a leak component or an air-conditioning system to be approved.\nFor that purpose, a sample with the highest leakage rate (hereinafter ‘the worst case sample’) shall be used.\n3. If the relevant requirements are met, EC component type-approval shall be granted and a component type-approval number issued in accordance with the numbering system set out in Annex VII to Directive 70/156/EEC.\nA Member State may not assign the same number to another type of leak component or air-conditioning system.\n4. For the purposes of paragraph 3, the type-approval authority shall deliver an EC component type-approval certificate established in accordance with the model set out in Part 2 of Annex I.",
  "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/eur/2007/706/article/4",
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  },
  "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."
}