Criteria for establishing the adequate scale of the compliance verification checks
Article 1
The adequate scale of the compliance verification checks of vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units performed by the market surveillance authorities shall be established based on the following criteria: (a) the frequency of documentary checks on vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units carried out on vehicles registered in the relevant Member State in the preceding year; (b) the number of tests per year taking into account the requirements set out in Article 8(2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858; (c) a hazard ranking of the regulatory acts listed in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2018/858, based on the risk and the likelihood of the hazard occurring; (d) the number of new vehicles registered in the relevant Member State in the preceding year, by make and commercial name; (e) the substantiated complaints per make and commercial name of vehicles in the previous three years; (f) information exchanged in the Forum in the previous three years; (g) testing results published by third parties in the previous three years, that meet the requirements laid down in Article 6; (h) the percentage of tests allocated to the number of vehicles registered and the percentage of tests allocated to random sampling.