# Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2016 on requirements relating to gaseous and particulate pollutant emission limits and type-approval for internal combustion engines for non-road mobile machinery, amending Regulations (EU) No 1024/2012 and (EU) No 167/2013, and amending and repealing Directive 97/68/EC (Text with EEA relevance), Article 2: Scope

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. This Regulation applies to all engines falling within the categories set out in Article 4(1) which are installed in or are intended to be installed in non-road mobile machinery and, insofar as the emission limits for gaseous and particulate pollutants from those engines are concerned, to such non-road mobile machinery.
2. This Regulation does not apply to engines for:
(a) the propulsion of vehicles referred to in Article 2(1) of Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council;
(b) the propulsion of agricultural and forestry tractors as defined in point (8) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013;
(c) the propulsion of vehicles referred to in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
(d) stationary machinery;
(e) sea-going vessels requiring a valid maritime navigation or safety certificate;
(f) craft as defined in Directive (EU) 2016/1629 of the European Parliament and of the Council and not falling within its scope;
(g) the propulsion or auxiliary purposes of inland waterway vessels of a net power of less than 19 kW;
(h) watercraft as defined in point (1) of Article 3 of Directive 2013/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council;
(i) aircraft as defined in point (a) of Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014;
(j) recreational vehicles, except snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles and side-by-side vehicles;
(k) vehicles and machinery exclusively used or intended to be exclusively used in competitions;
(l) portable fire-fighting pumps as defined and covered by the European standard on portable fire-fighting pumps;
(m) reduced-scale models or reduced-scale replicas of vehicles or machinery manufactured, for recreational purposes, to a smaller scale than the original and having a net power of less than 19 kW.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1628/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1628/article-2
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