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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-686/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2017/686",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/686 of 1 February 2017 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/96 as regards environmental and propulsion unit performance requirements of agricultural and forestry vehicles (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-686",
  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/96 is amended as follows:\n(1) In Article 11, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:\n‘4. For the purposes of type-approval and placing on the market:\n(a) the dates set out in paragraphs 3c and 3d of Article 9 of Directive 97/68/EC shall, for agricultural and forestry vehicles of categories T2, T4.1 and C2, as defined in paragraphs 3, 6 and 9 of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013, be postponed for 4 years;\n(b) the dates set out in paragraph 4a of Article 9 of Directive 97/68/EC shall, for agricultural and forestry vehicles of categories T2, T4.1 and C2, as defined in paragraphs 3, 6 and 9 of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013, be postponed for 3 years;\n(c) the transition and exemption clauses in paragraph 4a of Article 9 and in paragraph 5 of Article 10 of Directive 97/68/EC and in Article 39 of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 shall, for agricultural and forestry vehicles of categories T2, T4.1 and C2, as defined in paragraphs 3, 6 and 9 of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013, also be postponed for 3 years.’.\n(2) In Annex V, point 1.1.1 is replaced by the following:\n‘1.1.1.\nThe number of agricultural and forestry vehicles placed on the market under the flexibility scheme shall, in each engine category, not exceed 20 % of the annual number of vehicles placed on the market by the manufacturer with engines in the relevant engine power range (calculated as the average of the last 5 years' sales on the Union market). Notwithstanding the first sentence in this paragraph, only for tractors of categories T2, T4.1 and C2, the number of vehicles placed on the market under the flexibility scheme of Stage IV, in each engine power range, shall not exceed 150 % of the annual number of vehicles placed on the market by the manufacturer with engines in the relevant engine power range (calculated as the average of the last 5 years' sales on the Union market). Where a vehicle manufacturer has placed on the market agricultural and forestry vehicles in the Union for a period of less than 5 years, the average shall be calculated based on the actual period for which the vehicle manufacturer has placed on the market agricultural and forestry vehicles in the Union.’.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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