{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-351/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-351/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2012/351",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 351/2012 of 23 April 2012 implementing Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards type-approval requirements for the installation of lane departure warning systems in motor vehicles",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-351",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "GB type-approval of a type of vehicle with regard to LDWS",
  "text": "1. The manufacturer or his representative shall submit to the type-approval authority the application for GB type-approval of a vehicle with regard to lane departure warning systems.\n2. The application shall be drawn up in accordance with the model of the information document set out in Part 1 of Annex I.\n3. If the relevant requirements set out in Annex II to this Regulation are met, the approval authority shall grant a GB 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 may not assign the same number to another vehicle type.\n4. For the purposes of paragraph 3, the type-approval authority shall issue a GB type-approval certificate established in accordance with the model set out in Part 2 of Annex I.\n(5.) Where an application for approval is made before 31st December 2026 under paragraph 1 in respect of a vehicle type which has been approved by the approval authority of a member State under Commission Regulation (EU) 351/2012, as that Regulation has effect in EU law, by way of derogation to point 2.2.3.1 of Annex II to this Regulation, the visible lane markings used in the lane departure tests of point 2.6 may be any one of those identified in the Appendix to Annex II, provided that the approval authority has been presented with documentary evidence in accordance with point 2.2.3.2 of Annex II demonstrating compliance with the UK lane markings specified in table 1 in the Appendix to Annex II.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 3(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), 70(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(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), 70(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(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), 70(3)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(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), 70(3)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(4) 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), 70(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 3(5) inserted (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), 70(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Art. 3 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), 70(3)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/351/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:49:28.375850+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."
}