# Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1892 of 31 October 2019 amending Regulation (EU) No 1230/2012 as regards type-approval requirements for certain motor vehicles fitted with elongated cabs and for aerodynamic devices and equipment for motor vehicles and their trailers (Text with EEA relevance), Article 1

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

Regulation (EU) No 1230/2012 is amended as follows:
(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) Article 2 is amended as follows:
(a) points (25) and (26) are replaced by the following:
(25) ‘“wheelbase” means the following:
(a) for motor vehicles and drawbar trailers, the horizontal distance between the centre of the first and the last axle;
(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;
(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;’;
(b) point (33) is replaced by the following:
(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;’;
(c) the following point (41) is added:
(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) 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) Annex I is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation;
(5) Annex V is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1892/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1892/article-1
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