{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-approval-regulations-2020/schedule-A/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/818",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-approval-regulations-2020",
  "path": "schedule/A/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Assessment of the manufacturer",
  "text": "(1) The approval authority must not grant a GB type approval without first ensuring that the manufacturer has put in place satisfactory arrangements and procedures, in accordance with point 3 of Annex 5 to UNECE Regulation 133, to manage properly the reusability, recyclability and recoverability aspects covered by this Schedule.\n(2) When this preliminary assessment has been carried out, a certificate named “Certificate of Compliance with Annex 5” (the “certificate of compliance”) must be granted to the manufacturer.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), the approval authority must ensure that the materials used for the construction of a vehicle type comply with the provisions of Article 4(2)(a) of the Directive, taking into account the exemptions set out in Annex II to the Directive, and for this purpose, references in the table in Annex II to vehicles type-approved before a stated date are to be read as referred to vehicles which have received EU type-approval pursuant to Directive 2005/64 before the stated date.\n(4) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1), the manufacturer must recommend a strategy to ensure the dismantling, recycling and recovery of materials used in the vehicle type, and the reuse of any component parts.\n(5) The strategy must take into account the technologies available or in development at the time of the application for a GB whole-vehicle type-approval.\n(6) The Secretary of State must appoint a competent body, in accordance with point 2 of Annex 5 to UNECE Regulation 133, to carry out the any assessment of the manufacturer required by this paragraph and to issue the certificate of compliance.\n(7) The certificate of compliance must include the appropriate documentation and describe the strategy recommended by the manufacturer.\n(8) The competent body must use the model set out in the Appendix to Annex 5 to UNECE Regulation 133 for the certificate of compliance.\n(9) A certificate of compliance issued under this paragraph, including a new certificate of compliance issued pursuant to sub-paragraphs (12) or (13), must remain valid for two years from the date of issue to the manufacturer.\n(10) The manufacturer must inform the competent body immediately in the event of any significant changes which are relevant to the competent body’s decision to issue a certificate of compliance under this paragraph.\n(11) After receiving that notification, and after consulting the manufacturer, the competent body must carry out a further assessment where it is no longer satisfied that the manufacturer complies with the requirements of this Schedule.\n(12) Following any assessment conducted pursuant to sub-paragraph (11), the competent body must cancel the existing certificate of compliance and may only issue a new certificate of compliance if it is satisfied that the manufacturer continues to comply with the requirements of this Schedule.\n(13) At the end of the period of validity of the certificate of compliance, the competent body must not issue a new certificate of compliance unless it is satisfied the manufacturer continues to comply with the requirements of this Schedule, and for this purpose, the competent body may decide to carry out a further assessment of the manufacturer in accordance with this paragraph.\n(14) Where the certificate of compliance is no longer valid or has been cancelled in accordance with this paragraph, and no new certificate of compliance has been issued under sub-paragraph (12) or (13), the competent body must inform the approval authority of this fact.\n(15) The approval authority must cancel any GB type-approval issued in accordance with this Schedule where the certificate of compliance is no longer valid or has been cancelled in accordance with sub-paragraph (12) and no new certificate of compliance has been issued under sub-paragraph (12) or (13).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 inserted (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), 17"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/818/schedule/A/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:27:15.937710+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."
}