The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 1649

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Made

24th June 2002

Laid before Parliament

26th June 2002

Coming into force

17th July 2002

The Secretary of State for Transport, being a Minister designated(1) for the purposes of subsection 2 of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to the reduction of emissions of pollutants from internal combustion engines, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by that subsection hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 17th July 2002.

Amendments to Regulation 2 (Interpretation)

2.—(1) In regulation 2(1)(a) of the Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) Regulations 1999(3), the words “as amended by Commission Directive 2001/63/EC(4)” shall be inserted after the word “machinery”;

(2) In regulation 2(1)(c), the words “, or is to be,” shall be inserted before the word “installed”;

(3) In regulation 2(3), for the words after “Regulations” there shall be substituted the words: “a reference to an Annex is a reference to the relevant Annex to Directive 97/68/EC (an Arabic numeral in these Regulations being treated as the equivalent Roman numeral in that Directive)”.

Revocation and consequential amendments

3.—(1) Schedules 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7 shall be revoked;

(2) The words “Annex” and “Annexes” are substituted for the words “Schedule” and “Schedules” respectively wherever they appear in—

(a) Regulation 2(1)(e),(f),(g) and (m) and (2);

(b) Regulation 6(1) and (2);

(c) Regulation 8(2),(3) and (4);

(d) Regulation 9(1)(a) and (c), and (5);

(e) Regulation 11 (1) and (9);

(f) Regulation 13(1)(a);

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

David Jamieson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

24th June 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations implement Commission Directive 2001/63/EC which amends Annexes III and IV of European Parliament and Council Directive 97/68/EC. The latter Directive makes provision to reduce emissions from internal combustion engines for use in machinery not intended to be used on the road, such as forestry equipment and fork-lift trucks. It specifies production assessments and tests relating to such internal combustion engines. The Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Regulation 96 has a similar scope, but small adjustments in the technical requirement were required in order to align the Directive with the Regulation.

Regulation 2

97/68/EC

S.I.

1999/1053

2001/63/EC

Regulation 2(2)

1999/1053

1999/1053

97/68/EC

Regulation 2(3)

Regulation 3

1999/1053

Regulation 2(3)

This Explanatory Note incorporates the Transposition Note that would otherwise have been provided separately.

Copies of the Directive and ECE Regulations relevant to these Regulations can be obtained from the Stationery Office.

(1)

S.I. 1998/745.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

S.I. 1999/1053.

(4)

OJ L. No. 227, 23.8.2001, p. 41.