{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-858/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-858/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2018/858",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2018/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, amending Regulations (EC) No 715/2007 and (EC) No 595/2009 and repealing Directive 2007/46/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-858",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Online data exchange",
  "text": "1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n2. From 5 July 2026, the Secretary of State shall make accessible to the public, by vehicle identification number, the certificate of conformity of each vehicle as structured data in electronic format ... in accordance with Article 37.\nFrom 5 July 2026, the Secretary of State shall make accessible to the public the information contained in the certificate of conformity, excluding vehicle identification numbers, as structured data in electronic format ... in accordance with Article 37.\nThe Secretary of State may by regulations establish the format of, and the criteria for, public access to the information referred to in the first and second subparagraphs of this paragraph.\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n4. The Secretary of State must make a list of the GB type-approvals for vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units that they have granted, amended, refused or withdrawn, as well as a list of the technical services which have performed the tests for the respective GB type-approvals, accessible to the public as from 1 September 2024.\nThe Secretary of State may by regulations establish the format of, and the criteria for, public access to the information referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph.\n5. The Secretary of State shall develop a tool to make publicly accessible test results and complaints about the performance of vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units from recognised third parties that meet the requirements laid down by the regulations referred to in Article 13(10).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 12(1) omitted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by virtue of The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 24(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 12(2) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 24(7)(b)(i)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 12(2) omitted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by virtue of The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 24(7)(b)(i)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 12(2) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 24(7)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 12(3) omitted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by virtue of The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 24(7)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 12(4) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 24(7)(d)(i)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Art. 12(4) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 24(7)(d)(i)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 12(4) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 24(7)(d)(i)(cc)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 12(4) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 24(7)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 12(5) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 24(7)(e)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in Art. 12(5) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 24(7)(e)(ii)"
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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