1.The Agency shall develop, operate and maintain the European register of authorised types of vehicles on the basis of the specification set out in Annexes I and II.
2.The European register of authorised types of vehicles (ERATV) shall contain data on the types of vehicle authorised by the Member States pursuant to Article 26 of Directive 2008/57/EC.
3.Types of vehicle authorised by a Member State before 19 July 2010 for which one or more vehicles have been authorised in one or more Member States pursuant to Article 22 or 24 of Directive 2008/57/EC after 19 July 2010 are deemed to fall under provisions of Article 26 of Directive 2008/57/EC and shall be registered in ERATV. In this case, data to be recorded may be limited to the parameters that have been verified during the type authorisation process.
4.The types of vehicles which can be registered voluntarily are those set out in Section 1 of Annex I.
5.The structure of the number that each type of vehicle receives shall be as set out in Annex III.
6.The register shall be operational by 31 December 2012. In the meantime the Agency shall publish the information relating to the authorised types of vehicles on its website.