CHAPTER ISUBJECT MATTER, SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS

Article 1Subject matter

This Regulation lays down requirements for the construction and functioning of motor vehicles and frontal protection systems in order to reduce the number and severity of injuries to pedestrians and other vulnerable road users who are hit by the fronts of vehicles and in order to avoid such collisions.

Article 2Scope

1.

This Regulation shall apply to the following:

(a)

motor vehicles of category M1 as defined in F1Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2018/858, subject to paragraph 2 of this Article;

(b)

motor vehicles of category N1 as defined in F1Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2018/858, subject to paragraph 2 of this Article;

(c)

frontal protection systems fitted as original equipment to the vehicles referred to in points (a) and (b) or supplied as separate technical units intended for fitting to such vehicles.

2.

Sections 2 and 3 of Annex I to this Regulation shall not apply to:

(a)

vehicles of category N1; and

(b)

vehicles of category M1 derived from N1 and of maximum mass exceeding 2 500 kg;

where the driver position ‘R-point’ is either forward of the front axle or longitudinally rearwards of the front axle transverse centreline by a maximum of 1 100 mm.

Article 3Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation:

  1. 1.

    ‘A-pillar’ means the foremost and outermost roof support extending from the chassis to the roof of the vehicle;

  2. 2.

    ‘brake assist system’ means a function of the braking system that deduces an emergency braking event from a characteristic of the driver’s brake demand and, under such conditions:

    1. (a)

      assists the driver to deliver the maximum achievable braking rate; or

    2. (b)

      is sufficient to cause full cycling of the Anti-lock Braking System;

  3. 3.

    ‘bumper’ means any front, lower, outer structures of a vehicle, including attachments thereto, which are intended to give protection to a vehicle when involved in a low speed frontal collision with another vehicle; it does not include, however, any frontal protection system;

  4. 4.

    ‘frontal protection system’ means a separate structure or structures, such as a bull bar, or a supplementary bumper which, in addition to the original-equipment bumper, is intended to protect the external surface of the vehicle from damage in the event of a collision with an object, with the exception of structures having a mass of less than 0,5 kg, intended to protect only the vehicle’s lights;

  5. 5.

    ‘maximum mass’ means the technically permissible maximum laden mass stated by the manufacturer pursuant to point 2.8 of Annex I to F2Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/683;

  6. 6.

    ‘vehicles of category N1’ derived from M1’ means those vehicles of N1 category which, forward of the A-pillars, have the same general structure and shape as a pre-existing M1 category vehicle;

  7. 7.

    ‘vehicles of category M1’ derived from N1’ means those vehicles of M1 category which, forward of the A-pillars, have the same general structure and shape as a pre-existing N1 category vehicle.