General provisions
1. The holder of an EU type-approval shall, without delay, inform the approval authority that granted the EU type-approval of any change in the particulars recorded in the information package.
2. That approval authority shall decide which of the procedures laid down in Article 25 is to be followed.
3. Where necessary and after consulting the holder of the EU type-approval, the approval authority may decide that an amendment to the EU type-approval needs to be granted.
4. The holder of an EU type-approval to be amended shall submit an application for the amendment to the EU type-approval to the approval authority that granted the EU type-approval to be amended.
5. Where the approval authority establishes that, for the purposes of making an amendment to an EU type-approval, inspections or tests need to be repeated, it shall inform the holder of the EU type-approval to be amended accordingly.
The procedures referred to in Article 25 shall only apply if, on the basis of those inspections or tests, the approval authority concludes that the requirements for EU type-approval continue to be fulfilled.
Amendments to the EU type-approval
1. Where the approval authority verifies that the particulars recorded in the information package have changed, the approval authority shall grant an amendment to the EU type-approval for which the application was submitted in accordance with Article 24.
2. The approval authority shall designate the amendment as a ‘revision’ if inspections or tests are not required to be repeated.
In such a case, the approval authority shall issue the revised pages of the information package as necessary, marking each of the revised pages to show clearly the nature of the change and the date of reissue. A consolidated, updated version of the information package, accompanied by a detailed description of the changes, shall be deemed to meet that requirement.
3. The approval authority shall designate the amendment as an ‘extension’ if any of the following occurs:
(a)
further inspections or tests are required;
(b)
any information on the EU type-approval certificate, with the exception of its attachments, has changed; or
(c)
new requirements under any act adopted pursuant to this Regulation become applicable to the EU type-approved non-road mobile machinery.
4. When amended pages of the information package or a consolidated, updated version of that package are issued, the index to the information package attached to the EU type-approval certificate shall be amended accordingly to show either the date of the most recent extension or revision or the date of the most recent consolidation of the updated version.
5. No amendment to the EU type-approval of non-road mobile machinery shall be required if the new requirements referred to in paragraph 3, point (c), are, from a technical point of view, irrelevant to that type of non-road mobile machinery.
Issue and notification of amendments
1. In the case of a revision, the revised documents or the consolidated, updated version, as appropriate, including the revised index to the information package, shall be issued by the approval authority to the holder of the EU type-approval.
2. In the case of an extension, the approval authority shall issue an updated EU type-approval certificate denoted by an extension number, incremented in accordance with the number of successive extensions already granted. That updated certificate shall clearly show the reason for the extension and the date of reissue of the updated EU type-approval certificate. All relevant sections of that certificate, the attachments thereto, and the index to the information package shall be updated.
That updated certificate and its attachments shall be issued by the approval authority to the holder of the EU type-approval.
3. The approval authority shall notify any amendment made to EU type-approvals to the approval authorities of the other Member States, by means of a common secure electronic exchange system.
