Article 10 Type approval

With effect from 2 July 2007, if a manufacturer so requests, the F1Secretary of State may not, on grounds relating to emissions or fuel consumption of vehicles, refuse to grant F2GB type-approval for a new type of vehicle, or prohibit the registration, sale or entry into service of a new vehicle, where the vehicle concerned complies with this Regulation and its implementing measures, and in particular with the Euro 5 limit values set out in Table 1 of Annex I or with the Euro 6 limit values set out in Table 2 of Annex I.

With effect from 1 September 2009, and from 1 September 2010 in the case of category N₁ class II and III and category N₂ vehicles, the F3approval authority shall refuse, on grounds relating to emissions or fuel consumption, to grant GB type-approval for new types of vehicle which do not comply with this Regulation and its implementing measures, and in particular with the Annexes, with the exception of the Euro 6 limit values set out in Table 2 of Annex I. For the test on tailpipe emissions, the limit values applied to vehicles designed to fulfil specific social needs shall be the same as for category N₁ class III vehicles.

With effect from 1 January 2011, and from 1 January 2012 in the case of category N₁ class II and III and category N₂ vehicles and vehicles designed to fulfil specific social needs, F4the Secretary of State shall, in the case of new vehicles which do not comply with this Regulation and its implementing measures, and in particular with the Annexes with the exception of the Euro 6 limit values set out in Table 2 of Annex I, consider certificates of conformity to be no longer valid for the purposes of F5Article 48 of Regulation (EU) 2018/858 and shall, on grounds relating to emissions or fuel consumption, prohibit the registration, sale or entry into service of such vehicles. For the test on tailpipe emissions, the limit values applied to vehicles designed to fulfil specific social needs shall be the same as for category N₁ class III vehicles.

With effect from 1 September 2014, and from 1 September 2015 in the case of category N₁ class II and III and category N₂ vehicles, the F6approval authority shall refuse, on grounds relating to emissions or fuel consumption, to grant GB type-approval for new types of vehicle which do not comply with this Regulation and its implementing measures, and in particular with the Euro 6 limit values set out in Table 2 of Annex I.

With effect from 1 September 2015, and from 1 September 2016 in the case of category N₁ class II and III and category N₂ vehicles, F7the Secretary of State shall, in the case of new vehicles which do not comply with this Regulation and its implementing measures, and in particular with the Euro 6 limit values set out in Table 2 of Annex I, consider certificates of conformity to be no longer valid for the purposes of F8Article 48 of Regulation (EU) 2018/858 and shall, on grounds relating to emissions or fuel consumption, prohibit the registration, sale or entry into service of such vehicles.

The 5,0 mg/km emission limit for mass of particulate matter referred to in Tables 1 and 2 of Annex I shall be effective from the applicable dates set out in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3.

The 4,5 mg/km emission limit for mass of particulate matter and the particle number limit referred to in Tables 1 and 2 of Annex I shall be effective from 1 September 2011 for the type-approval on new types of vehicles and from 1 January 2013 for all new vehicles sold, registered or put into service in F10Great Britain.

Until three years after the applicable dates set out in paragraphs 4 and 5 for new type approvals and the registration, sale or entry into service of new vehicles and upon the choice of the manufacturer, a particle number emission limit of 6 × 10 ¹² #/km shall apply to vehicles with a direct injection positive ignition engine.