Article 19 Requirements for environmental performance

Manufacturers shall ensure that vehicles are designed, constructed and assembled so as to minimise the impact on the environment.

Manufacturers shall ensure that vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units comply with the relevant requirements set out in this Regulation, including the requirements relating to:

The provisions on engine categories, exhaust emission limits, test cycles, emission durability periods, exhaust emission requirements, the monitoring of emissions of in-service engines and the conduct of measurements and tests, as well as the transitional provisions and provisions allowing the early EU type-approval and the placing on the market of Stage V engines laid down for non-road mobile machinery in Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 of the European Parliament and of the Council ^f1 and the delegated and implementing acts adopted pursuant thereto shall apply.

For the purposes of the placing on the market, registration or entry into service of tractors of categories T2, T4.1 and C2, the engines in the power range 56-130 kW meeting the Stage III B requirements shall be considered to be transition engines as defined in point (32) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1628.

The limit values for the specific external sound levels shall not exceed the following levels:

They shall be measured in accordance with the test procedures laid down in the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 6.

The requirements referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply to vehicles, and to systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, if they are applicable in accordance with Annex I.

The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 71 concerning the detailed technical requirements on the external sound level, including test procedures, and on the installation in a vehicle of engines which have been approved as regards pollutant emissions and the related provisions for flexibility in order to ensure that a high level of environmental performance will be obtained. The first such delegated acts shall be adopted by 31 December 2014.

Those specific technical requirements shall be such as to increase or at least maintain the level of environmental performance provided for by the Directives referred to in Article 76(1) and, where applicable, Article 77.

F2By way of derogation from the principle set out in the second subparagraph, the Commission shall be empowered to amend, by 31 December 2016 , Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/96 ^f2 , so that: