{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-858/article-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-858/article-57.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/57",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "UN Regulations required for GB type-approval",
  "text": "1. UN Regulations or amendments thereto which the United Kingdom has voted in favour of, or that the United Kingdom applies and that are listed in Annex II, shall be part of the requirements for the GB type-approval of vehicles, systems, components or separate technical units.\n2. Where the United Kingdom has voted in favour of a UN Regulation or amendments thereto for the purpose of whole-vehicle type-approval, the the Secretary of State may by regulations supplement this Regulation by making that UN Regulation or the amendments thereto compulsory or amending this Regulation.\nRegulations made under this paragraph must specify the dates from which that UN Regulation or amendments are to be compulsory, and shall include transitional provisions, where appropriate, and, where applicable for the purposes of GB type-approval, first registration and entry into service of vehicles and making available on the market of systems, components and separate technical units.\n(3.) UN Regulations and amendments made thereto which are compulsory and the dates from which they are compulsory are specified in Annex XII.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(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), 34(1)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 57(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), 34(1)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(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), 34(1)(c)(i)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(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), 34(1)(c)(i)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(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), 34(1)(c)(ii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Art. 57(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), 34(1)(c)(ii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 57(3) inserted (13.11.2025) by The Road Vehicles (Type-Approval) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1110), regs. 1(2), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in Art. 57 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), 34(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/858/article/57",
    "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."
}