{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-1230/article-4a",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-1230/article-4a.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2012/1230",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 1230/2012 of 12 December 2012 implementing Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to type-approval requirements for masses and dimensions of motor vehicles and their trailers and amending Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-1230",
  "path": "article/4a",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4a",
  "heading": "GB separate technical unit type-approval of aerodynamic devices and equipment",
  "text": "1. The manufacturer or his representative shall submit to the type-approval authority the application for GB type-approval of an aerodynamic device or equipment as a separate technical unit.\nThe application shall be drawn up in accordance with the model of the information document set out in Part C of Annex V.\n2. If the relevant requirements set out in this Regulation are met, the approval authority shall grant a GB separate technical unit type-approval and issue a type-approval number in accordance with the numbering system set out in Annex IV to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/683.\nThe approval authority shall not assign the same number to another type of separate technical unit.\n3. For the purposes of paragraph 2, the type-approval authority shall deliver a GB type-approval certificate established in accordance with the model set out in Part D of Annex V.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1892 of 31 October 2019 amending Regulation (EU) No 1230/2012 as regards type-approval requirements for certain motor vehicles fitted with elongated cabs and for aerodynamic devices and equipment for motor vehicles and their trailers (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4a(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), 71(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4a(2) 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), 71(5)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4a(2) 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), 71(5)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4a(2) 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), 71(5)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4a(3) 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), 71(5)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Art. 4a heading 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), 71(5)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/1230/article/4a",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:56.620551+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."
}