{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-78/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-78/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/78",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 78/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009 on the type-approval of motor vehicles with regard to the protection of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users, amending Directive 2007/46/EC and repealing Directives 2003/102/EC and 2005/66/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-78",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Scope",
  "text": "1. This Regulation shall apply to the following:\n(a) motor vehicles of category M1 as defined in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2018/858, subject to paragraph 2 of this Article;\n(b) motor vehicles of category N1 as defined in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2018/858, subject to paragraph 2 of this Article;\n(c) frontal protection systems fitted as original equipment to the vehicles referred to in points (a) and (b) or supplied as separate technical units intended for fitting to such vehicles.\n2. Sections 2 and 3 of Annex I to this Regulation shall not apply to:\n(a) vehicles of category N1; and\n(b) vehicles of category M1 derived from N1 and of maximum mass exceeding 2 500 kg;\nwhere the driver position ‘R-point’ is either forward of the front axle or longitudinally rearwards of the front axle transverse centreline by a maximum of 1 100 mm.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 50(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/78/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:40.803827+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."
}