Scope
This Regulation applies to vehicles of categories O 3 and O 4, other than:
(a)
vehicles with a bodywork other than a box shaped bodywork as defined in Article 2, point (2);
(b)
vehicles with a technically permissible maximum mass lower than 8 000 kg;
(c)
vehicles with more than three axles;
(d)
link drawbar trailers and link semi-trailers;
(e)
converter dollies;
(f)
vehicles exceeding the maximum authorised dimensions laid down in Annex XIII, section E to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/535 ( 5 ) ;
(g)
vehicles with driven axles.
Definitions
The following definitions shall apply:
(1)
‘simulation tool’ means an electronic tool, developed by the Commission, which is used to assess the performance of vehicles of categories O 3 and O 4 with regard to their influence on the CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption of motor vehicles;
(2)
‘box shaped bodywork’ means an enclosed superstructure integral to the frame of the vehicle, which covers the goods being transported, and for which the attributed digits used to supplement the codes of bodywork are 03, 04, 05, 06 or 32, in accordance with Annex III, Table 3;
(3)
‘hashing tool’ means an electronic tool, developed by the Commission, which provides an unequivocal association between the certified component, separate technical unit or system and its certification document, or between a vehicle and its manufacturer's records file and its customer information file;
(4)
‘manufacturer’ means the person or body that is responsible to the approval authority for all aspects of the certification process and for ensuring conformity of CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption related properties of components, separate technical units and systems, irrespective of whether that person or body is directly involved in all stages of the construction of the component, separate technical unit or system which is the subject of the certification;
(5)
‘vehicle manufacturer’ means a body or person responsible for issuing the manufacturer’s records file and the customer information file pursuant to Article 8;
(6)
‘CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption related properties’ means characteristics specific to a component, separate technical unit and system which determine the impact of the part on the CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption of a vehicle;
(7)
‘aerodynamic device’ means a device, equipment, or a combination thereof in a specific configuration designed to reduce the aerodynamic drag of vehicle combinations consisting of at least a motor vehicle and a trailer or semi-trailer;
(8)
‘generic geometry’ means a three dimensional model developed by the Commission for computational fluid dynamics simulations;
(9)
‘manufacturer’s records file’ means a file produced by the simulation tool which contains manufacturer related information, a documentation of the input data and input information to the simulation tool, and the performance of the vehicle with regard to its influence on the CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption of motor vehicles, and which takes the form of the template laid down in Annex IV, Part I;
(10)
‘customer information file’ means a file produced by the simulation tool which contains a set of vehicle related information and the performance of the vehicle with regard to its influence on CO 2 emissions, fuel consumption, of motor vehicles, and which takes the form of the template laid down in Annex IV, Part II;
(11)
‘input data’ means information on the CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption related properties of a component, separate technical unit or system which is used by the simulation tool to determine the CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption of a vehicle;
(12)
‘input information’ means information about the characteristics of a vehicle which is used by the simulation tool to determine the influence on the CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption of that vehicle and which is not part of input data;
(13)
‘authorised entity’ means a national authority authorised by a Member State to request relevant information from the manufacturers and vehicle manufacturers on the CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption related properties of a specific component, specific separate technical unit or specific system and CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption of new vehicles respectively.
