Commission Directive 2004/86/EC (repealed)Show full title

ANNEX

Point 1.5 of the Annex to Directive 93/93/EEC is replaced by the following:

‘1.5. “unladen mass” means the mass of vehicle ready for normal use and equipped as follows:

• additional equipment required solely for the normal use under consideration,

• complete electrical equipment, including the lighting and light-signalling devices supplied by the manufacturer,

• instruments and devices required by the laws under which the unladen mass of the vehicle has been measured,

• the appropriate amounts of liquids in order to ensure the proper operation of all parts of the vehicle.

1.5.1. In the case of vehicles of categories L6e and L7e intended for carrying goods and designed to be equipped with exchangeable superstructures, the total mass of these superstructures shall not be taken into account for the calculation of the unladen mass and shall be considered to be part of the payload.

In this case, the following additional conditions shall be fulfilled:

(a)

the basic type of vehicle (chassis cab), on which the abovementioned superstructures are designed to be fitted, shall fulfil all the prescriptions established for category L6e and L7e quadricycles for transportation of goods, (including the limit of 350 kg unladen mass for category L6e vehicles and the limit of 550 kg unladen mass for category L7e vehicles);

(b)

a superstructure is considered to be exchangeable if it can be easily removed from the chassis cab without the use of tools;

(c)

as far as the superstructure is concerned, the vehicle manufacturer shall provide in the information document, a model of which is set out in Annex II to Directive 2002/24/EC, the maximum permitted dimensions, the mass, the limits for the position of the centre of gravity and a drawing with the position of fixing devices.

NB: the fuel and the fuel/oil mixture are not included in the measurement, but components such as the battery acid, the hydraulic fluid, the coolant and the engine oil must be included.’.