Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 692/2008
Article 17
Regulation (EC) No 692/2008 is amended as follows: (1) In Article 6, paragraph 1, shall be replaced by the following text: ‘1. If all the relevant requirements are met, the approval authority shall grant an EC type-approval and issue a type-approval number in accordance with the numbering system set out in Annex VII to Directive 2007/46/EC. Without prejudice to the provisions of Annex VII to Directive 2007/46/EC, Section 3 of the type-approval number shall be drawn up in accordance with Appendix 6 to Annex I to this Regulation. An approval authority shall not assign the same number to another vehicle type. The requirements of Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 shall be deemed to be met if all the following conditions are fulfilled: (a) the requirements of Article 3(10) of this Regulation are met; (b) the requirements of Article 13 of this Regulation are met; (c) the vehicle has been approved according to UN/ECE Regulations No 83, series of amendments 07; No 85 and its supplements, No 101, Revision 3 (comprising series of amendments 01 and their supplements) and in the case of compression ignition vehicles No 24 Part III, series of amendments 03. (d) the requirements of Article 5(11) and (12) are met.’ (2) the following Article 16a is added: ‘Article 16a Transitional provisions With effect from 1 September 2017 in the case of categories M1, M2 and category N1 class I vehicles, and from 1 September 2018 in the case of N1 vehicles of class II and III and category N2 vehicles, this Regulation shall only apply for the purposes of assessing the following requirements of vehicles type-approved in accordance with this Regulation before those dates: (a) conformity of production in accordance with Article 8; (b) in-service conformity in accordance with Article 9; (c) access to vehicle OBD and vehicle repair and maintenance information in accordance with Article 13; This Regulation shall also apply for the purposes of the correlation procedure set out in Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2017/1152 ( *1 ) and (EU) 2017/1153 ( *2 ) . ( *1 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1152 of 2 June 2017 setting out a methodology for determining the correlation parameters necessary for reflecting the change in the regulatory test procedure with regard to light commercial vehicles and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 293/2012 (See page 644 of this Official Journal)." ( *2 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1153 of 2 June 2017 setting out a methodology for determining the correlation parameters necessary for reflecting the change in the regulatory test procedure and amending Regulation (EU) No 1014/2010 (See page 679 of this Official Journal).’ " (3) Annex I is amended in accordance with Annex XVII to this Regulation.