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Explanatory note

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These regulations amend the Self-Propelled Industrial Trucks (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988 (“the principal Regulations”) and implement Commission Directive 89/240/EEC which adapts to technical progress Council Directive 86/663/EEC (OJNo. L384, 31.12.86, p.12) concerning the approximation of the laws of member States relating to certain self-propelled industrial trucks.

The principal Regulations are extended so as to provide for additional tests to be carried out on self-propelled industrial trucks manufactured on or after 18th July 1989 (stability, visibility and functional tests) to ensure that they comply with the technical requirements of Annex I of the Council Directive.