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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-166/article-3",
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  "legislation": "eur/2015/166",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/166 of 3 February 2015 supplementing and amending Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the inclusion of specific procedures, assessment methods and technical requirements, and amending Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, and Commission Regulations (EU) No 1003/2010, (EU) No 109/2011 and (EU) No 458/2011 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-166",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Type-approval",
  "text": "1. Where the type of vehicle, component or separate technical unit presented for type-approval complies with the relevant technical prescriptions and measures to ensure conformity of production with the UNECE regulations made compulsory by Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 and where the applicant fulfils the relevant requirements laid down in Article 2 of this Regulation, the type-approval authority shall grant an EC type-approval pursuant to Article 13(15)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 and issue a type-approval number in accordance with the numbering system set out in Annex VII to Directive 2007/46/EC.\n2. A Member State may not assign the same number to another type of vehicle, component or separate technical unit.\n3. For the purposes of paragraph 1, the type-approval authority shall deliver an EC type-approval certificate established in accordance with the model set out in Part 2 of Annex I in case of a type of vehicle, component or separate technical unit incorporating new technologies or new concepts incompatible with UNECE regulations, or Part 3 of Annex I in case of a type of vehicle, component or separate technical unit complying with the essential technical requirements of UNECE regulations and/or in case of self-testing and/or virtual testing.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/166/article/3",
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  },
  "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."
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