APPROVAL AND MARKET SURVEILLANCE OF TWO OR THREE-WHEEL VEHICLES AND QUADRICYCLES REGULATIONS

APPROVAL AND MARKET SURVEILLANCE OF TWO- OR

THREE-WHEEL VEHICLES AND QAUADRICYCLES

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 427.43

APPROVAL AND MARKET SURVEILLANCE OF

TWO OR THREE-WHEEL VEHICLES AND

QUADRICYCLES REGULATIONS

1st January, 2016 *

LEGAL NOTICE 17 of 2016, as amended by Legal Notice 67 of 2017.

The title of these regulations is Approval and Market

Surveillance of Two- or Three-Wheel Vehicles and Quadricycles

Regulations.

These regulations implement the requirements set by

(a) Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European

Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 on

the approval and market surveillance of two- or three-

wheel vehicles and quadricycles;

(b) UNECE Regulation (No 22) regarding the Uniform

Provisions Concerning the Approval of Protective

Helmets and their Visors for Drivers and Passengers of

Motor Cycles and Mopeds;

(c) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 3/2014 of

24 October 2013 supplementing Regulation (EU) No

168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the

Council with regard to vehicle functional safety

requirements for the approval of two- or three-wheel

vehicles and quadricycles;

(d) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 44/2014

of 21 November 2013 supplementing Regulation (EU)

No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the

Council with regard to the vehicle construction and

general requirements for the approval of two- or three-

wheel vehicles and quadricycles;

(e) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 134/2014

of 16 December 2013 supplementing Regulation (EU)

No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the

Council with regard to environmental and propulsion

unit performance requirements and amending Annex V

thereof; and

(f)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 901/

2014 of 18 July 2014 implementing Regulation (EU)

No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the

Council with regard to the administrative requirements

*see regulation 1(2) of these Regulations as originally promulgated.

APPROVAL AND MARKET SURVEILLANCE OF TWO- OR

THREE-WHEEL VEHICLES AND QAUADRICYCLES

for the approval and market surveillance of two- or

three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

"the Act" means the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs

Authority Act;

"the 1958 Agreement" means the Revised Agreement Concerning

the Adoption of Uniform Conditions of Approval and Reciprocal

Recognition of Approval for Motor Vehicle Equipment and Parts,

done at Geneva on 20 March 1958 * ;

"end-of-series vehicle" means any vehicle that is part of a stock

which cannot be made available on the market or can no longer be

made available on the market, registered or enter into service

owing to the entry into force of new technical requirements against

which it has not been approved;

"national type-approval" means a type-approval procedure laid

down by the national law of a Member State, the validity of such

approval being restricted to the territory of that Member State;

"registration" means the administrative authorisation for the

entry into service in road traffic of a vehicle, involving the

identification of the latter and the issuing to it of a serial number, to

be known as the registration number, be it permanently, temporarily

or for a short period of time;

"UNECE Regulation" means the United Nations Economic

Commission for Europe (UNECE) Regulation which is annexed to

the Revised 1958 Agreement concerning the Uniform Provisions

Concerning the Approval of Protective Helmets and their Visors for

Drivers and Passengers of Motor Cycles and Mopeds and any

amendments thereto † .

(1) The Technical Regulations Division of the Malta

Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority is the approval

authority and the market surveillance authority within the meaning

of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 and UNECE Regulation (No 22).

(2) The Authority for Transport in Malta shall be the competent

authority responsible for registration, national type- approval and

end-of-series vehicles.

(1) The penalties applicable for any infringement related

to the provisions of regulation 4(1) shall be those provided for in

Part IV of the Product Safety Act.

(2)

The penalties applicable for any infringement related to

registration, national type-approval and end-of-series vehicles, in

accordance with regulation 4(2), shall be those provided for in the

Authority for Transport in Malta Act.

* http://ec.europa.eu/world/agreements/prepareCreateTreatiesWorkspace/

treatiesGeneralData.do?redirect=true&treatyId=474

† http://www.unece.org/trans/main/wp29/wp29regs21-40.html