The Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2007
These Regulations transpose, for the purposes of the EC type approval of light passenger vehicles, four EC Directives. Directive 2006/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, dated 17th May 2006, imposes new requirements relating to air conditioning systems in motor vehicles, and, in particular, the maximum global warming potential of their components. Commission Directive 2007/15/EC, dated 14th March 2007, amends Directive 74/483/EEC, dated 17th September 1974, on external projections, to adjust the requirements with respect to vehicle bumpers, and to align the requirements concerning the external projections of vehicles and their trailers with those applicable under regulation 26 of the type approval system established by the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). Commission Directive 2006/81/EC, dated 23rd October 2006, and Council Directive 2006/96/EC, dated 20th November 2006, both amend, among other instruments, several of the separate vehicle type approval Directives, and Directive 70/156/EEC (the Framework Directive), in view of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union. The complete list of the Directives so amended is found in column 1 of the items in the Table in Schedule 1 to the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1998 (“the principal Regulations”) listed in paragraph (2) of regulation 3.