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6 June 2016 
 
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MEETING DOCUMENT No. TA 18/16 
 
 
Motor Vehicles  
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council  
on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers,  
and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles 
 
 
Working Party on Technical Harmonisation - Motor Vehicles 
8 June 2016 
 
 
 
Delegations will find attached comments from the Romanian delegation. 
 
 
 
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RO comments to Art. 60  - 86 of 
REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the 
approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components 
and separate technical units intended for such vehicles 
(doc.  5712/16) 
 
Art. 60  para. 2 
2. The approval authorities of the Member States  2. The approval authorities of the Member States 
shall accept approvals granted in accordance 
shall accept approvals granted in accordance 
with the UNECE regulations referred to in 
with the UNECE regulations referred to in 
paragraph 1 and, where applicable, the relevant 
paragraph 1 and, where applicable, the relevant 
approval marks, in place of the corresponding 
approval marks, in place of the corresponding 
approvals and approval marks granted in 
approvals and approval marks granted in 
accordance with this Regulation and the 
accordance with this Regulation and the 
regulatory acts adopted pursuant to this 
regulatory acts adopted pursuant to this 
Regulation. 
Regulation. 
Justification: Art. 60 refers to the UNECE Regulations that are included in the EU type-approval 
legislation (Annex IV).  Consequently, the acceptance of the UNECE approvals is mandatory. Para. 
2 is useless. 
 
Art. 63 and 64 
... vehicle, system, component or separate 
... vehicle, system, component, or separate 
technical unit… 
technical unit, parts or equipments … 
Justification: The information for users is necessary also for parts and equipments; besides, in Art. 
64 (1) there is a direct reference to Art. 55. 
 
Art. 63 (3)  
3. The information referred to in paragraph 2 
3. The information referred to in paragraph 2 
shall be supplied in the official language or 
shall be supplied in the official language or 
languages of the Member State where the 
languages of the Member State where the 
vehicle, system, component or separate technical  vehicle, system, component or separate technical 
unit is to be placed on the market, registered or 
unit is to be placed on the market, registered or 
is to be entered into service. It shall be provided 
is to be entered into service. It shall be provided 
in the owner’s manual after acceptance by the 
in the owner’s manual after acceptance by the 
approval authority. 
approval authority. 
Justification: It is not necessary and possible. 
 
Art. 71  para. 4 
4. The type-approval authority shall not perform 
4. The type-approval authority shall not perform 
any activities that technical services perform and  any activities that technical services perform and 
shall not provide consultancy services on a 
shall not provide consultancy services on a 
commercial or competitive basis. 
commercial or competitive basis. 
Justification: Contradiction with art. 72 (2). RO considers that it is important to maintain the 
possibility of TAA to be designated also as TS. 
 
Chapter XIV and XV – GENERAL SCRUTINY RESERVATION. 

 
 
Art.71  para. 8-10 TO BE DELETED 
Justification: It is no justification for that complicated procedure. There is not any proof of the 
wrong or fraudulent activity of the TAA’s or TS’s. The procedure introduces an unjustified 
suspicion between the TAA’s. On the other hand, the TAA’s activities are subject to the free 
competition. We consider that the direct intervention of a TAA in the other TAA’s designation is 
not acceptable. It is also a procedure very hard to put into practice - no impact study about the costs 
for MS and Commission available. Having in view that the majority of the applicable regulatory 
acts are UNECE Regulation, it is a procedure applicable for only a limited number of normative 
acts (about 10 %). 
 
Art. 72 para. 3 
3. A technical service shall be established under 
3. A technical service shall be established under 
the national law of a Member State and have 
the national law of a Member State and have 
legal personality, except for an accredited in-
legal personality, except for a technical service 
house technical service of a manufacturer, as 
belonging to a type approval authority and 
referred to in Article 76. 
for an accredited in-house technical service of a 
manufacturer, as referred to in Article 76. 
Justification: The technical services belonging to a type approval authority can not have the own 
legal personality. 
 
Art. 72  para. 4 
4. A technical service shall take out liability 
4. A technical service shall take out liability 
insurance for its activities unless that liability is 
insurance for its activities unless that liability is 
assumed by the Member State in accordance 
assumed by the Member State in accordance 
with national law, or the Member State itself is 
with national law, or the Member State itself is 
directly responsible for the conformity 
directly responsible for the conformity 
assessment. 
assessment. 
Justification:. We consider that the liability is a national problem.  
 
Art. 77  para. 1-10 TO BE DELETED  
Justification: As in art. 71 it is proposed a very complicated and costly procedure without a real 
justification. It is not take into consideration the fact that the TS are designated for each normative 
act. So it is possible that a TS needs to be designated several times. It is not clear the application for 
the TS’s designated by several MS. It is also a procedure very hard to put into practice - no impact 
study about the costs for MS and Commission available. Having in view that the majority of the 
applicable regulatory acts are UNECE Regulation, it is a procedure applicable for only a limited 
number of normative acts (about 10 %). 
 
 
 

Art. 77  para. 12 
12. The approval authority that intends to be 
12. The approval authority that intends to be 
designated as a technical service in accordance 
designated as a technical service in accordance 
with Article 72(2) shall document compliance 
with Article 72(2) shall document compliance 
with the requirements of this Regulation through  with the requirements of this Regulation through 
an assessment conducted by independent 
an assessment conducted by independent 
auditors. Those auditors shall not belong to the 
auditors. Those auditors shall not belong to the 
same approval authority and shall comply with 
same approval authority be independent in 
the requirements laid down in Appendix 2 of 
relation to the technical service and shall 
Annex V.  
comply with the requirements laid down in 
Appendix 2 of Annex V.  
Justification: Clarification of the text. The auditor could be part of the approval authority but 
independent in relation to the technical service. Otherwise, it would be an implicite obligation for 
accreditation of these TS’s. 
 
Art. 78  para. 2 
2. Within 28 days of a notification, a Member 
2. Within 28 days of a notification, a Member 
State or the Commission may raise written 
State or the Commission may raise written 
objections, setting out its arguments, with regard  objections, setting out its arguments, with regard 
either to the technical service or to its 
either to the technical service or to its 
monitoring by the type-approval authority. 
monitoring by the type-approval authority. 
When a Member State or the Commission raises 
When a Member State or the Commission raises 
objections, the effect of the notification shall be 
objections, the effect of the notification shall be 
suspended. In this case, the Commission shall 
suspended. In this case, the Commission shall 
consult the parties involved and shall decide by 
consult the parties involved and shall decide by 
means of an implementing act whether the 
means of an implementing act whether the 
suspension of the notification can be lifted or 
suspension of the notification can be applied 
not. That implementing act shall be adopted in 
lifted or not. That implementing act shall be 
accordance with the examination procedure 
adopted in accordance with the examination 
referred to in Article 87(2). 
procedure referred to in Article 87(2). 
Where no objection is raised or where the 
 That suspension will be maintain until the 
Commission is of the opinion that the 
elimination of the causes that determined it. 
notification may be accepted fully or partially, 
Where no objection is raised or where the 
the Commission shall publish the notification in 
Commission is of the opinion that the 
accordance with paragraph 5. 
notification may be accepted fully or partially, 
the Commission shall publish the notification in 
accordance with paragraph 5. 
Justification: It is an abusive procedure that could block the activity of a TS for a long period of 
time, which may lead even to its dissolution. There is not provided any responsibility for the MS or 
Commission in the case of rising a wrong objection. The activity should be continued until a 
justified decision will be taken.    
 
 
 

Art. 79  para. 2 
2. In the event of a restriction, suspension or 
 
withdrawal of the designation, or where the 
technical service has ceased its activity, the 
designating approval authority shall transfer the 
files of that technical service to another technical 
service for further processing or keep them 
available for the approval authorities or for the 
market surveillance authorities. 
Justification: The text is not clear. What are the files that could be transferred? Some of them 
belongs to the TS. What abouy the confidentiality? How to keep files available for a TS which has 
ceased its activity? 
 
Art. 79  para. 3 and 4 – it is necessary to reassess those provisions. It is very difficult to assess the 
effect of non-compliance for the approvals already granted. That could also pose seriously legal 
problems. The manufacturers could be seriously affected even that is not their fault. A TAA could 
not assume the function of a TS if is not assessed and designated according to the procedures. 
 
Art. 80  para. 3b 
3. At least every 30 months, the type-approval 
3. At least every 30 months, the type-approval 
authority shall assess whether each technical 
authority shall assess whether each technical 
service under its responsibility continues to 
service under its responsibility continues to 
satisfy the requirements set out in 
satisfy the requirements set out in 
Articles 72 to 76, in Articles 84 and 85 and in 
Articles 72 to 76, in Articles 84 and 85 and in 
Appendix 2 to Annex V. This assessment shall 
Appendix 2 to Annex V. This assessment shall 
include an on-site visit to each technical service 
include an on-site visit to each technical service 
under its responsibility. 
under its responsibility. 
Within two months after finalising this 
Within two months after finalising this 
assessment of the technical service, the Member 
assessment of the technical service, On request, 
States shall report to the Commission and to the 
the Member States shall report to the 
other Member States on those monitoring 
Commission and to the other Member States on 
activities. The reports shall contain a summary 
those monitoring activities. The reports shall 
of the assessment which shall be made publicly 
contain a summary of the assessment which 
available. 
shall be made publicly available. 
Justification: Unjustified administrative burdens.  
 
Art. 86 - TO BE DELETED. 
We do not agree with a fee system. The relation between TAA’s and TS’s is a contractual relation.