# 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), Article 26: General provisions on conduct of procedures for GB type-approval

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

1. For each type of vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit, only one GB type-approval may be granted.
2. The approval authority, having received an application in accordance with Article 23, shall only grant a GB type-approval after having verified all of the following:
(a) the conformity of production arrangements referred to in Article 31;
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(c) the compliance of the type of vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit with the applicable requirements;
(d) in the case of whole-vehicle type-approvals in accordance with the step-by-step, mixed or multi-stage type-approval procedures, the approval authority shall verify, in accordance with Article 22(4), that the systems, components and separate technical units are covered by separate and valid type-approvals that have been granted pursuant to the requirements applicable at the time of the granting of the whole-vehicle type-approval.
3. The procedures with respect to GB type-approval, that are set out in Annex III, and the procedures with respect to multi-stage type-approval, set out in Annex IX, shall apply.
The Secretary of State may by regulations amend Annexes III and IX to update the procedures in those Annexes in relation to GB type-approval and multi-stage approval to take into account regulatory and technological developments.
4. The approval authority shall put together an information package consisting of the information folder referred to in Article 24, accompanied by the test reports and all other documents that were added to the information folder by the technical service or by the approval authority while carrying out their tasks.
The information package may be kept electronically. It shall contain an index that clearly indicates all of the pages and the format of each document, and that chronologically records any changes to the GB type-approval.
The approval authority shall keep the information package available for a period of 10 years after the end of the validity of the GB type-approval concerned.
5. The approval authority shall refuse to grant a GB type-approval where it finds that a type of vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit that complies with the applicable requirements nonetheless presents a serious risk to safety or may seriously harm the environment or public health. ...
6. In accordance with Article 22(4), in the case of step-by-step, mixed and multi-stage type-approval procedures, the approval authority shall refuse to grant a GB type-approval where it finds that systems, components or separate technical units do not comply with the requirements set out in this Regulation.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/858/article/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-858/article-26
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