Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 is amended as follows:
in Article 3, at the end of point 17, the full stop should be changed into a semicolon;
in Article 3, the following point 18 is added:
“direct injection engine” means an engine which can operate in a mode where the fuel is injected into the intake air after the air has been drawn through the inlet valves.’;
in Article 10, the following paragraph 7 is added:
‘7.Until three years after the applicable dates set out in paragraphs 4 and 5 for new type approvals and the registration, sale or entry into service of new vehicles and upon the choice of the manufacturer, a particle number emission limit of 6 × 1012 #/km shall apply to vehicles with a direct injection positive ignition engine.’;
Annex I is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation.
Regulation (EC) No 692/2008 is amended as follows:
in Article 4, paragraph 7 is deleted;
Annexes I, XI and XVI are amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 29 May 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso