THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2016 on requirements relating to gaseous and particulate pollutant emission limits and type-approval for internal combustion engines for non-road mobile machinery, amending Regulations (EU) No 1024/2012 and (EU) No 167/2013, and amending and repealing Directive 97/68/EC, and in particular Article 24(11), Article 25(4)(a), (b) and (c), Article 26(6), Article 34(9), Article 42(4), Article 43(5) and Article 48 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
In order to complete the framework established by Regulation (EU) 2016/1628, it is necessary to set out the technical and general requirements and test methods relating to emission limits, EU type-approval procedures for internal combustion engines for non-road mobile machinery, arrangements with regard to conformity of production and the requirements and procedures relating to technical services for those engines.
(2)
By Council Decision 97/836/EC, the Union has acceded to the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted to and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions.
(3)
With the aim to ensure that the provisions on the construction of engines to be installed in non-road mobile machinery correspond to the technical progress, the latest versions of CEN/Cenelec or ISO standards which are accessible to the public should be made applicable as regards to certain requirements.
(4)
Checks on the conformity of engines with the applicable technical requirements throughout the production process are an essential part of the EU type-approval process. Therefore, checks on the conformity of production procedures should be further improved and aligned with the stricter procedures applicable to road vehicles in order to increase the overall efficiency of the EU type-approval process.
(5)
In order to ensure that technical services meet the same high level of performance standards in all Member States, this Regulation should set out the harmonised requirements with which technical services have to comply, as well as the procedure for the assessment of that compliance and for the accreditation of those services.
(6)
For the sake of clarity, it is appropriate to align the numbering of test procedures in this Regulation with those in Global Technical Regulation No 11 and in UNECE Regulation 96,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: