Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) (ectypeapproval)

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 18,037, 16 ta’ Frar, 2007

L.N. 29 of 2007

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2007

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 38 to 40 of the

Product Safety Act, 2001, the Minister for Competitiveness and

Communications, on the advice of the Malta Standards Authority, has

made the following regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Motor Vehicles (EC Citation.

Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations, 2007, and they shall be

read and construed as one with the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval)

(Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2006, hereinafter referred to as “the L.N. 156 of 2006.

principal regulations”.

(2) The present regulations implement the requirements of

Directives which amend Directives 2005#55#EC and 2005#78#EC. This

includes the requirements of Commission Directive 2006#51#EC of 6

June 2006 amending for the purposes of adapting to technical progress

Annex I to Directive 2005#55#EC of the European Parliament and of

the Council and Annexes IV and V to Directive 2005#78#EC as regards

requirements for the emission control monitoring system for use in

vehicles and exemptions for gas engines< and any subsequent

amendments of these Directives.

(3) The regulations shall apply from the 8 th November 2006.

For regulation 2 of the principle regulations there shall be Substitutes

regulation 2 to the

substituted the following>

principal regulations

“2.

References to directives 88#77#EEC,

91#542#EEC, 1999#96#EC, and 2001#27#EC in the principal

regulations shall be construed as references to directive

2005#55#EC as amended by 2005#78#EC and shall be read in

accordance with the correlation table in Schedule I, hereto.

(a) The latest amendment of Directives

2005#55#EC and 2005#78#EC shall be taken into

account.”

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