# Regulation (EU) 2019/631 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 setting CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and for new light commercial vehicles, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 443/2009 and (EU) No 510/2011 (recast) (Text with EEA relevance), Article 2: Scope

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

1. This paragraph and paragraphs 2, 3 and 5 of this Article, and Articles 1, 3, 11, 12, 13, ..., 17, 18 and 19 of this Regulation apply to the whole of the United Kingdom. Those paragraphs and Articles apply to the following vehicles—
(a) category M1 as defined in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2018/858, as it has effect in domestic law (in respect of vehicles with GB type-approval), or, where relevant, Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2018/858 as it has effect in EU law as amended from time to time and by virtue of the Northern Ireland Protocol (in respect of vehicles with UK (NI) type-approval or EU type-approval) (“passenger cars”), which are registered in the United Kingdom for the first time and which have not previously been registered outside the United Kingdom (“new passenger cars”);
(b) category N1 as defined in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2018/858, as it has effect in domestic law (in respect of vehicles with GB type-approval), or, where relevant, Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2018/858 as it has effect in EU law as amended from time to time and by virtue of the Northern Ireland Protocol (in respect of vehicles with UK (NI) type-approval or EU type-approval), with a reference mass not exceeding 2 610 kg, and vehicles of category N1 to which type-approval is extended in accordance with Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 (“light commercial vehicles”), as it has effect in domestic law (in respect of vehicles with GB type-approval) or, where relevant, as that Regulation has effect in EU law as amended from time to time and by virtue of the Northern Ireland Protocol (in respect of vehicles with UK (NI) type-approval or EU type-approval), which are registered in the United Kingdom for the first time and which have not previously been registered outside the United Kingdom (“new light commercial vehicles”). In the case of zero-emission vehicles of category N with a reference mass exceeding 2 610 kg or 2 840 kg, as the case may be, they shall, from 1 January 2025, for the purposes of this Regulation and without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2018/858 and Regulation (EC) No 715/2007, as those Regulations have effect in domestic law (in respect of vehicles with GB type-approval) and, where relevant, as those Regulations have effect in EU law as amended from time to time and by virtue of the Northern Ireland Protocol (in respect of vehicles with UK (NI) type-approval or EU type-approval), be counted as UK light commercial vehicles falling within the scope of this Regulation if the excess reference mass is due only to the mass of the energy storage system.
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2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, a previous registration outside the United Kingdom made less than three months before registration in the United Kingdom shall not be taken into account.
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3. This Regulation does not apply to special purpose vehicles as defined in:
(a) point 5 of Part A of Annex 1 to Regulation (EU) 2018/858, as that Regulation has effect in domestic law, in the case of vehicles with GB type-approval; or
(b) point 5 of Part A of Annex 1 to Regulation (EU) 2018/858, as that Regulation has effect in EU law as amended from time to time and by virtue of the Northern Ireland Protocol, in the case of vehicles with UK (NI) type-approval or EU type-approval.
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5. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to any vehicle registered in the United Kingdom which is permanently removed from the United Kingdom within three months after that registration.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/631/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-631/article-2
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