Directives and regulations - Exemptions for end-of-series vehicles

Background

Framework Directive 70/156/EEC covers in its Article 8(2)b special provisions for end-of-series vehicles:

• Within the limits contained in Annex XII, section B and for a limited period Member States may register and permit the sale or entry into service of new vehicles conforming to a type of vehicle whose type-approval is no longer valid under Article 5 (5).

This provision shall apply only to vehicles which:

• were in the territory of the European Community; and
• were accompanied by a valid certificate of conformity which had been issued when the type-approval of the vehicle in question was still valid, but which had not been registered or put into service before the said type-approval lost its validity.

This option shall be limited to a period of 12 months for complete vehicles and 18 months for vehicles completed as from the date on which the type-approval lost its validity.

The Article states that the Member States shall each year send the Commission a list of exemptions granted.

Member States granting end-of-series vehicle exemptions in 2006

• Czech Republic [216 KB]
• Denmark [8 KB]
• Germany [108 KB]
• Estonia [24 KB]
• Greece [94 KB]
• Spain [268 KB]
• Ireland [3 MB]
• Italy [73 KB]
• Latvia [18 KB]
• Lithuania [15 KB]
• Hungary [18 KB]
• Poland [423 KB]
• Slovakia [331 KB]
• Finland [3 MB]
• Sweden [11 KB]