{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-858/article-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-858/article-25.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/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Additional information to be provided with an application for GB type-approval",
  "text": "1. An application for a step-by-step type-approval shall be accompanied, in addition to the information folder referred to in Article 24, by the complete set of GB type-approval certificates or UN type-approval certificates, and their attachments, that are required pursuant to the regulatory acts listed in Annex II.\nIn the case of a system type-approval, a component type-approval or a separate technical unit type-approval, pursuant to the regulatory acts listed in Annex II, the approval authority shall have access to the information folder and, if applicable, the GB type-approval certificates and their attachments until the whole-vehicle type-approval is either granted or refused.\n2. An application for a mixed type-approval shall be accompanied, in addition to the information folder referred to in Article 24, by the GB type-approval certificates or UN type-approval certificates, and their attachments, that are required pursuant to the regulatory acts listed in Annex II.\nFor systems for which no GB type-approval certificate or UN type-approval certificate has been presented, the application shall be accompanied, in addition to the information folder referred to in Article 24, by the information required for the approval of those systems during the vehicle approval phase, and by a test report instead of the GB type-approval certificate or UN type-approval certificate.\n3. An application for a multi-stage type-approval shall be accompanied by the following information:\n(a) in the first stage, by those parts of the information folder and the GB type-approval certificates, UN type-approval certificates or, if applicable, the test reports, that are relevant to the state of completion of the base vehicle;\n(b) in the second and subsequent stages, by those parts of the information folder and the GB type-approval certificates or UN type-approval certificates that are relevant to the current stage of completion, together with a copy of the GB whole-vehicle type-approval certificate that was issued at the preceding stage of construction, as well as full details of any changes or additions that the manufacturer has made to the vehicle.\nThe information specified in this paragraph shall be supplied in accordance with Article 24(3).\n4. The approval authority and technical services shall have the access to the software and algorithms of the vehicle that they consider to be necessary for the purpose of carrying out their activities.\nThe approval authority and technical services may also require the manufacturer to supply documentation or any additional information needed to allow the approval authority or technical services to develop an appropriate level of understanding of the systems, including the system development process and the system concept, as well as the functions of software and algorithms that are necessary to verify compliance with the requirements of this Regulation, to take a decision on which tests are required or to facilitate the execution of those tests.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 25(1) 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), 25(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 25(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), 25(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 25(3) 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), 25(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 25(3)(b) 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), 25(5)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Art. 25 heading 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), 25(5)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/858/article/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:04.914425+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}