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APPROVAL AND MARKET SURVEILLANCE OF AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY VEHICLES REGULATIONS
Table of Provisions (9)
Statutory Text (9 Articles)
APPROVAL AND MARKET SURVEILLANCE
OF AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY VEHICLES
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 427.59
APPROVAL AND MARKET SURVEILLANCE OF
AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY VEHICLES
REGULATIONS
1st January, 2016 *
LEGAL NOTICE 18 of 2016, as amended by Legal Notice 69 of 2017.
The title of these regulations is the Approval and Market
Surveillance of Agricultural and Forestry Vehicles Regulations.
These regulations implement
(a) the requirements set by Regulation (EU) No 167/2013
of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5
February 2013 on the approval and market
surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles;
(b) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1322/
2014 of 19 September 2014 supplementing and
amending Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 of the
European Parliament and of the Council with regard to
vehicle construction and general requirements for the
approval of agricultural and forestry vehicles;
(c) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/68 of 15
October 2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 167/
2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council
with regard to vehicle braking requirements for the
approval of agricultural and forestry vehicles;
(d) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/96 of 1
October 2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 167/
2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as
regards
environmental
and
propulsion
unit
performance requirements of agricultural and forestry
vehicles;
(e) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/208 of 8
December 2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No
167/2013 of the European Parliament and of the
Council with regard to vehicle functional safety
requirements for the approval of agricultural and
forestry vehicles;
(f)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/504 of
11 March 2015 implementing Regulation (EU) No 167/
2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with
regard to the administrative requirements for the approval
*see regulation 1(2) of these Regulations, as originally promulgated.
APPROVAL AND MARKET SURVEILLANCE
OF AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY VEHICLES
and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry
vehicles; and
(g) the separate Directives listed in the Schedule.
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires
"the Act" means the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs
Authority Act;
"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 including for 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.
(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 167/2013.
(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 the infringement of the
provisions of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 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.
Schedule
LIST OF SEPARATE DIRECTIVES,
AND THEIR DATE OF ADOPTION
Base Directive
Title of Base Directive
Amending
Official Journal
Date of Adoption
no.
Directive No.
reference
71/320/EEC
Council Directive of July 26,
L 202, 06.09.1971
With respect to
1971 on the approximation of
these regulations
the laws of the member states
- The effective
relating to the braking devices
date
of certain categories of motor
74/132/EEC
L 74/78, 19.03.1974 With respect to
vehicles and of their trailers
these regulations
- The effective
date
75/524/EEC
L 263/3-4,
With respect to
09.1975
these regulations
- The effective
date
79/489/EEC
L 128/12-13,
With respect to
05.1979
these regulations
- The effective
date
85/647/EEC
L 380/1-2,
With respect to
12.1985
these regulations
- The effective
date
88/194/EEC
L 92/47-49,
With respect to
04.04.1988
these regulations
- The effective
date
91/422/EEC
L 233/21-
With respect to
29,22.08.1991
these regulations
- The effective
date
98/12/EC
L 81, 18.03.1998
With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
2002/78/EC
L 267, 04.10.2002 With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
89/173/EEC
Council Directive of July 25,
L 67 10.05.1989
The effective date
1978 on the approximation of 97/54/EEC
L 277 10.10.1997
The effective date
the laws of the member states 2000/1/EC
L 21 26.01.2000
The effective date
relating to certain components
31 st December,
and characteristics of wheeled 2006/26/EC
L 65; 07.03.2006
agricultural or forestry tractors
2006/96/EC
L363, P.81
20.11.2006
20.12.2006
92/22/EC
Council Directive of March 31,
L 129 14.05.1992
With respect to
1992 on safety glazing and
these regulations
glazing materials on motor
- The effective
vehicles and their trailers
date
2001/92/EC
L 291 08.11.2001
With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
76/115/EEC
Council Directive of December
L 24 30.01.1976
With respect to
18, 1975 on the approximation
these regulations
of the laws of the Member
- The effective
States relating to anchorage for
date
motor-vehicles safety belts.
81/575/EEC
L 209 20.07.1981
With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
82/318/EEC
L 139 19.05.1982
With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
90/629/EEC
L 314; 06.12.1990
With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
96/38/EC
L 187 26.07.1996
With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
77/541/EEC
Council Directive of June 28,
L 220 29.08.1977
With respect to
1977 on the approximation of
these regulations
the laws of the member states
- The effective
relating to safety belts and
date
restraints systems of motor
81/576/EEC
L 209 29.07.1981
With respect to
vehicles.
these regulations
- The effective
date
82/319/EEC
L 139 19.05.1982
With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
87/354/EEC
L 192 11.07.1987
With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
90/628/EEC
L 341 06.12.1990
With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
96/36/EC
L 178 17.07.1996
With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
2000/3/EC
L 53 25.02.2000
With respect to
these regulations
- The effective
date
75/443/EEC
Council Directive of June 26,
L 196 26.07.1975
With respect to
1975 on the approximation of
these regulations
the laws of the member states
- The effective
relating to the reverse and
date
speedometer equipment of
97/39/EC
L 177 05.07.1997
With respect to
motor vehicles
these regulations
- The effective
date
91/226/EEC
Council Directive of March 27,
L 103 23.04.1991
With respect to
1991 on the approximation of
these regulations
the laws of the member states
- The effective
relating to the spray-
date
suppression systems of certain
categories of motor vehicles
and their trailers
92/24/EEC
Council Directive of March 27,
L 129 14.05.1992
With respect to
1991 on the approximation of
these regulations
the laws of the member states
- The effective
relating to speed limitation
date
devices or similar speed
limitation on-board systems of
certain categories of motor
vehicles
89/297/EEC
Council Directive of April 13,
L 124 05.05.1989
With respect to
1989 on the approximation of
these regulations
the laws of the member states
- The effective
relating to the lateral protection
date
(side guards) of certain motor
vehicles and their trailers
2008/2/EC
DIRECTIVE OF THE
L 24,29.1.2008
1st May 2008
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Repealing
AND OF THE COUNCIL of 15
Directive 74/347/
January 2008 on the field of
EEC with its
vision and windscreen wipers
successive
for wheeled agricultural or
amendments.
forestry tractors
(referred to in
Article 6)