{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-582/annex-II/division-4/division-4.5",
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  "legislation": "eur/2011/582",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 582/2011 of 25 May 2011 implementing and amending Regulation (EC) No 595/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council with respect to emissions from heavy duty vehicles (Euro VI) and amending Annexes I and III to Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-582",
  "path": "annex/II/division/4/division/4.5",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4.5",
  "heading": "Trip requirements",
  "text": "The shares of operation shall be expressed as a percentage of the total trip duration.\nThe trip shall consist of urban driving followed by rural and motorway driving according to the shares specified in points 4.5.1 to 4.5.4. Where another testing order is justified for practical reasons and after the agreement of the approval authority another order may be used, however, the test shall always start with the urban driving.\nFor the purpose of this Section, ‘approximately’ shall mean the target value ± 5 %.\nUrban, rural and motorway parts can be determined either on the basis of:\ngeographical coordinates (by means of a map), or\nfirst acceleration method.\nIn case the trip composition is determined on the basis of geographical coordinates, the vehicle should not exceed, for a cumulative period longer than 5 % of the total duration of each part of the trip, the following speed:\n50 km/h in the urban part,\n75 km/h in the rural part (90 km/h in the case of vehicles of categories M 1 and N 1 )\nIn case the trip composition is determined by means of the first acceleration method, the first acceleration above 55 km/h (70 km/h in the case of vehicles of categories M 1 and N 1 ) shall indicate the beginning of the rural part and the first acceleration above 75 km/h (90 km/h in the case of vehicles of categories M 1 and N 1 ) shall indicate the beginning of the motorway part.\nThe criteria for differentiation between urban, rural and motorway operation shall be agreed with the approval authority prior to the beginning of the test.\nAverage speed in urban operation shall be between 15 and 30 km/h.\nAverage speed in rural operation shall be between 45 and 70 km/h (60 and 90 km/h in the case of vehicles of categories M 1 and N 1 ).\nAverage speed in motorway operation shall be above 70 km/h (90 km/h in the case of vehicles of categories M 1 and N 1 ).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1718 of 20 September 2016 amending Regulation (EU) No 582/2011 with respect to emissions from heavy-duty vehicles as regards the provisions on testing by means of portable emission measurement systems (PEMS) and the procedure for the testing of the durability of replacement pollution control devices (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/582/annex/II/division/4/division/4.5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:50:03.864087+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."
}