# 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 30: Tests required for GB type-approval

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

1. For the purpose of granting GB type-approvals, the approval authority shall verify compliance with the technical requirements of this Regulation by means of appropriate tests that are performed by its technical services or, where paragraph 2A applies, by the technical services of an approval authority of a member State (“an EU approval authority”).
2. The fundamental elements of the tests, including the technical requirements for which compliance was verified by the tests, shall be recorded in a test report.
2A. The approval authority may rely on tests performed by the technical services of an EU approval authority where those tests are recorded in test reports and—
(a) the test report was issued—
(i) before 31st December 2026, in the case of vehicles in category M or N, or
(ii) before 31st December 2027, in the case of vehicles in category O, components or separate technical units;
(b) the tests described in the test report were made under any regulatory act set out in the table in Part I of Annex II as those regulatory acts apply in the law of the member State concerned;
(c) the test report shows that the vehicle, component or separate technical unit meets one or more of the requirements of that regulatory act is it has effect in domestic law on the date on which the GB type-approval is issued; and
(d) the EU type-approval to which the test report relates has not been invalidated since IP completion day otherwise than in accordance with Article 35(2)(a) of the EU Type Approval Regulation as that Regulation has effect in the law of the member State concerned.
2B. Where the EU type-approval referred to in paragraph 2A(d) has been extended or revised, the approval authority may take into account any test report or letter of no concern which accompanied any such extension or revision.
3. The Secretary of State may by regulations—
(a) amend Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/683, or
(b) make further provision on the format of the test reports.
4. The manufacturer shall make available to the approval authority and provide to the technical services concerned the vehicles, systems, components or separate technical units that are required under the relevant regulatory acts listed in Annex II for the performance of the required tests.
5. The required tests shall be performed on vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units that are representative of the type to be approved.
6. Where a range of values is provided for the parameters and for the conditions used for the performance of the appropriate tests referred to in paragraph 1, the technical services may choose any value within that range.
7. At the request of the manufacturer, and subject to the agreement of the approval authority, virtual testing methods may be used in accordance with Annex VIII as alternatives to the tests referred to in paragraph 1.
8. The Secretary of State may by regulations amend Annex VIII to take account of technical and regulatory developments by updating the list of regulatory acts relating to—
(a) which virtual testing methods may be used by a manufacturer or a technical service, and
(b) the specific conditions under which those virtual testing methods are to be used.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/858/article/30 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-858/article-30
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