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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1628/article-47",
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  "legislation": "eur/2016/1628",
  "legislation_title": "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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1628",
  "path": "article/47",
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  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Designation of technical services",
  "text": "1. Approval authorities shall designate technical services for one or more of the following categories of activities, in accordance with their fields of competence:\n(a) category A carrying out the tests referred to in this Regulation in the facilities belonging to the technical service in question;\n(b) category B supervising the tests referred to in this Regulation, where such tests are performed in the facilities of a manufacturer or of a third party;\n(c) category C assessing and monitoring on a regular basis the manufacturer's procedures for ensuring the conformity of production;\n(d) category D supervising or performing tests or inspections for ensuring the conformity of production.\n2. An approval authority may act as a technical service for one or more of the categories of activities referred to in paragraph 1.\n3. Technical services of a third country, other than those designated in accordance with this Article, may be the subject of a notification pursuant to Article 50 where such a recognition of technical services is provided for by a bilateral agreement concluded between the Union and the third country concerned.\nHowever, a technical service established in accordance with Article 45(2) may establish subsidiaries in third countries, provided that the subsidiaries are directly managed and controlled by that technical service.",
  "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/2016/1628/article/47",
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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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