Directive 2009/68/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (repealed)Show full title

Directive 2009/68/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

of 13 July 2009

on the component type-approval of lighting and light-signalling devices on wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors

(Codified version)

(Text with EEA relevance) (repealed)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 95 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee(1),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty(2),

Whereas:

(1) Council Directive 79/532/EEC of 17 May 1979 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the component type-approval of lighting and light-signalling devices on wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors(3) has been substantially amended several times(4). In the interests of clarity and rationality the said Directive should be codified.

(2) Directive 79/532/EEC is one of the separate Directives of the EC type-approval system provided for in Council Directive 74/150/EEC of 4 March 1974 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors, as replaced by Directive 2003/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on type-approval of agricultural or forestry tractors, their trailers and interchangeable towed machinery, together with their systems, components and separate technical units(5), and lays down technical prescriptions concerning the design and construction of agricultural or forestry tractors as regards the lighting and light-signalling devices. Those technical prescriptions concern the approximation of the laws of the Member States to enable the EC type-approval procedure provided for in Directive 2003/37/EC to be applied in respect of each type of tractor. Consequently, the provisions laid down in Directive 2003/37/EC relating to agricultural or forestry tractors, their trailers and interchangeable towed machinery, together with their systems, components and separate technical units, apply to this Directive.

(3) In Directive 2009/61/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 relating to the installation of lighting and light-signalling devices on wheeled agricultural and forestry tractors(6) common requirements were laid down for the installation of lighting and light-signalling devices on wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors. Such lighting and light-signalling devices possess the same characteristics as those fitted to motor vehicles. Therefore, devices having received an EC component type-approval mark in accordance with the Directives already adopted on this subject in connection with the EC type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers may also be used on tractors.

(4) This Directive should be without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time-limits for transposition into national law and application of the Directives set out in Part B of Annex II,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

(1)

OJ C 162, 25.6.2008, p. 40.

(2)

Opinion of the European Parliament of 17 June 2008 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and Council Decision of 22 June 2009.

(3)

OJ L 145, 13.6.1979, p. 16.

(4)

See Annex II, Part A.

(5)

OJ L 171, 9.7.2003, p. 1.

(6)

See page 19 of this Official Journal.