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Article 1

United Kingdom

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Regulation (EU) No 1230/2012 is amended as follows:

  1. (1)

    in Article 1, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

    ‘1.

    This Regulation lays down the requirements for the EC type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers with regard to their masses and dimensions as well as of certain separate technical units intended for those vehicles.’;

  2. (2)

    Article 2 is amended as follows:

    1. (a)

      points (25) and (26) are replaced by the following:

      1. (25)

        ‘“wheelbase” means the following:

        1. (a)

          for motor vehicles and drawbar trailers, the horizontal distance between the centre of the first and the last axle;

        2. (b)

          for centre-axle trailers, semi-trailers and rigid drawbar trailers, the distance between the vertical axis of the coupling and the centre of the last axle;

      2. (26)

        “axle spacing” means the distance between two consecutive axles; for centre axle trailers, semi-trailers and rigid drawbar trailers, the first axle spacing is the horizontal distance between the vertical axis of the front coupling and the centre of the first axle;’;

    2. (b)

      point (33) is replaced by the following:

      1. (33)

        ‘“rear swing-out” means the distance between the initial point and the actual extreme point reached by the rear end of a vehicle when manoeuvring in the conditions specified in Section 8 of Part B of Annex I or in Section 7 of Part C of that Annex;’;

    3. (c)

      the following point (41) is added:

      1. (41)

        ‘“aerodynamic devices and equipment” mean devices or equipment that are designed to reduce the aerodynamic drag of road vehicles, with the exception of elongated cabs.’;

  3. (3)

    the following Articles 4a and 4b are inserted:

    ‘EC separate technical unit type-approval of aerodynamic devices and equipment

    Article 4a
    1.

    The manufacturer or his representative shall submit to the type-approval authority the application for EC type-approval of an aerodynamic device or equipment as a separate technical unit.

    The application shall be drawn up in accordance with the model of the information document set out in Part C of Annex V.

    2.

    If the relevant requirements set out in this Regulation are met, the approval authority shall grant an EC separate technical unit type-approval and issue a type-approval number in accordance with the numbering system set out in Annex VII to Directive 2007/46/EC

    A Member State shall not assign the same number to another type of separate technical unit.

    3.

    For the purposes of paragraph 2, the type-approval authority shall deliver an EC type-approval certificate established in accordance with the model set out in Part D of Annex V.

    EC separate technical unit type-approval mark

    Article 4b

    Every separate technical unit conforming to a type in respect of which EC separate technical unit type-approval has been granted pursuant to this Regulation shall bear an EC separate technical unit type-approval mark as set out in Part E of Annex V.’;

  4. (4)

    Annex I is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation;

  5. (5)

    Annex V is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.