Selection of in-service verification vehicles
Article 3
1. Each granting approval authority shall, for each reporting period, select a sample of vehicles for those manufacturers to which it has granted a licence to operate the simulation tool in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 595/2009 ( 3 ) and its implementing measures, in particular Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EU) 2017/2400. For each reporting period and for each manufacturer, as a minimum, all in-service verification tests referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 4 need to be carried out an appropriate number of times based on the average over the three reporting periods preceding the in-service verification of the total number of vehicles of a given manufacturer determined under Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2017/2400, or Article 8 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1362 ( 4 ) . 2. Where a manufacturer is responsible for less than 100 new vehicles registered in the Union in the reporting period of the year two years before the reporting period of the year in which the vehicles are selected according to paragraph 1, the granting approval authority may decide not to perform in-service verifications tests for that manufacturer.