Council Regulation (EEC) No 3237/76Show full title

Procedure for approval by design type (series of road vehicles) U.K.

9. Where road vehicles are manufactured by type series, the manufacturer may apply to the competent authority of the country of manufacture for approval by design-type. U.K.

10. The manufacturer shall state in his application the identification numbers or letters which he assigns to the type of road vehicle to which his application for approval relates. U.K.

11. The application shall be accompanied by drawings and a detailed design specification of the type of road vehicle to be approved. U.K.

12. The manufacturer shall give an undertaking in writing that he will: U.K.

(a)

produce to the competent authority such vehicles of the type concerned as that authority may wish to examine;

(b)

permit the competent authority to examine further units at any time during the production of the type series concerned;

(c)

advise the competent authority of any change, however small, in the design or specification before proceeding with such change;

(d)

mark the road vehicles in a visible place with the identification numbers or letters of the design-type and the serial number of the vehicle in the type series (manufacturer's number);

(e)

keep a record of vehicles manufactured to the approved design-type.

13. The competent authority shall state what changes, if any, must be made to the proposed design-type in order that approval may be granted. U.K.

14. No approval by design-type shall be granted unless the competent authority has satisfied itself by examination of one or more vehicles manufactured to the design-type concerned that vehicles of that type comply with the technical conditions prescribed in Annex 2. U.K.

15. The competent authority shall notify the manufacturer in writing of its decision to grant approval by design-type. This decision shall be dated and numbered. The authority which took the decision shall be clearly designated. U.K.

16. The competent authority shall take the necessary steps to issue an approval certificate, which it has duly signed, in respect of every vehicle built in conformity with an approved design-type. U.K.

17. The holder of the approval certificate shall, before using the vehicle for the carriage of goods under the cover of a TIR carnet, fill in, as may be required, on the approval certificate: U.K.

• the registration number given to the vehicle (item 1) or,

• in the case of a vehicle not subject to registration, particulars of his name and business address (item 8).

18. When a vehicle which has been approved by design-type is exported to another country which is a Contracting Party to this Convention, no further approval procedure shall be required in that country on account of its importation. U.K.