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Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 Article 2

Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 Article 2

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Article 2

1.   This Regulation applies to all engines falling within the categories set out in Article 4(1) which are installed in or are intended to be installed in non-road mobile machinery and, insofar as the emission limits for gaseous and particulate pollutants from those engines are concerned, to such non-road mobile machinery. 2.   This Regulation does not apply to engines for: (a) the propulsion of vehicles referred to in Article 2(1) of Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council  ( 15 ) ; (b) the propulsion of agricultural and forestry tractors as defined in point (8) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013; (c) the propulsion of vehicles referred to in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council  ( 16 ) ; (d) stationary machinery; (e) sea-going vessels requiring a valid maritime navigation or safety certificate; (f) craft as defined in Directive (EU) 2016/1629 of the European Parliament and of the Council  ( 17 ) and not falling within its scope; (g) the propulsion or auxiliary purposes of inland waterway vessels of a net power of less than 19 kW; (h) watercraft as defined in point (1) of Article 3 of Directive 2013/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council  ( 18 ) ; (i) aircraft as defined in point (a) of Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014  ( 19 ) ; (j) recreational vehicles, except snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles and side-by-side vehicles; (k) vehicles and machinery exclusively used or intended to be exclusively used in competitions; (l) portable fire-fighting pumps as defined and covered by the European standard on portable fire-fighting pumps  ( 20 ) ; (m) reduced-scale models or reduced-scale replicas of vehicles or machinery manufactured, for recreational purposes, to a smaller scale than the original and having a net power of less than 19 kW.

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