Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 September 2007 establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles (Framework Directive) (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance

• Published date: 18 January 2018
• Official Gazette Publication: Gazzetta ufficiale dell’Unione europea, L 263, 09 ottobre 2007,Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea, L 263, 09 de octubre de 2007,Journal officiel de l’Union européenne, L 263, 09 octobre 2007

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►B DIRECTIVE 2007/46/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 5 September 2007 establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles (Framework Directive) (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ L 263 9.10.2007, p. 1)

Amended by:

		Official Journal
		No	page	date
►M1	COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1060/2008 of 7 October 2008	L 292	1	31.10.2008
►M2	REGULATION (EC) No 78/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 January 2009	L 35	1	4.2.2009
M3	REGULATION (EC) No 79/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 January 2009	L 35	32	4.2.2009
M4	COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 385/2009 of 7 May 2009	L 118	13	13.5.2009
►M5	REGULATION (EC) No 595/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 18 June 2009	L 188	1	18.7.2009
►M6	REGULATION (EC) No 661/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 13 July 2009	L 200	1	31.7.2009
M7	COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2010/19/EU Text with EEA relevance of 9 March 2010	L 72	17	20.3.2010
M8	Amended by: COMMISSION DECISION 2011/415/EU of 14 July 2011	L 185	76	15.7.2011
►M9	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 371/2010 of 16 April 2010	L 110	1	1.5.2010
►M10	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 183/2011 of 22 February 2011	L 53	4	26.2.2011
►M11	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 582/2011 of 25 May 2011	L 167	1	25.6.2011
►M12	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 678/2011 of 14 July 2011	L 185	30	15.7.2011
►M13	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 65/2012 of 24 January 2012	L 28	24	31.1.2012
►M14	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1229/2012 of 10 December 2012	L 353	1	21.12.2012
►M15	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1230/2012 of 12 December 2012	L 353	31	21.12.2012
►M16	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 143/2013 of 19 February 2013	L 47	51	20.2.2013
M17	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 171/2013 of 26 February 2013	L 55	9	27.2.2013
►M18	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 195/2013 of 7 March 2013	L 65	1	8.3.2013
►M19	COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2013/15/EU of 13 May 2013	L 158	172	10.6.2013
►M20	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 136/2014 of 11 February 2014	L 43	12	13.2.2014
►M21	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 133/2014 of 31 January 2014	L 47	1	18.2.2014
►M22	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 214/2014 of 25 February 2014	L 69	3	8.3.2014
►M23	REGULATION (EU) No 540/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 April 2014	L 158	131	27.5.2014
►M24	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1171/2014 of 31 October 2014	L 315	3	1.11.2014
►M25	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2015/45 of 14 January 2015	L 9	1	15.1.2015
►M26	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2015/166 of 3 February 2015	L 28	3	4.2.2015
►M27	REGULATION (EU) 2015/758 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 29 April 2015	L 123	77	19.5.2015
►M28	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2017/1151 of 1 June 2017	L 175	1	7.7.2017
►M29	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2017/1154 of 7 June 2017	L 175	708	7.7.2017
►M30	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2017/1347 of 13 July 2017	L 192	1	24.7.2017
►M31	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2017/2400 of 12 December 2017	L 349	1	29.12.2017
►M32	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2018/1832 of 5 November 2018	L 301	1	27.11.2018
►M33	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2019/318 of 19 February 2019	L 58	1	26.2.2019
►M34	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2019/543 of 3 April 2019	L 95	1	4.4.2019
M35	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2020/1181 of 7 August 2020	L 263	1	12.8.2020

Corrected by:

C1 Corrigendum, OJ L 308, 25.11.2015, p. 11 (661/2009)

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DIRECTIVE 2007/46/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 5 September 2007

establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles

(Framework Directive)

(Text with EEA relevance)

CHAPTER I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1

Subject matter

This Directive establishes a harmonised framework containing the administrative provisions and general technical requirements for approval of all new vehicles within its scope and of the systems, components and separate technical units intended for those vehicles, with a view to facilitating their registration, sale and entry into service within the Community.

This Directive also establishes the provisions for the sale and entry into service of parts and equipment intended for vehicles approved in accordance with this Directive.

Specific technical requirements concerning the construction and functioning of vehicles shall be laid down in application of this Directive in regulatory acts, the exhaustive list of which is set out in Annex IV.

Article 2

Scope

1. This Directive applies to the type-approval of vehicles designed and constructed in one or more stages for use on the road, and of systems, components and separate technical units designed and constructed for such vehicles.

It also applies to the individual approval of such vehicles.

This Directive also applies to parts and equipment intended for vehicles covered by this Directive.

2. This Directive does not apply to the type-approval or individual approval of the following vehicles:

(a)

agricultural or forestry tractors, as defined in Directive 2003/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on type-approval of agricultural or forestry tractors, their trailers and interchangeable towed machinery, together with their systems, components and separate technical units ( 1 ) and trailers designed and constructed specifically to be towed by them;

(b)

quadricycles as defined in Directive 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 March 2002 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles ( 2 );

(c)

tracked vehicles.

3. Type-approval or individual approval under this Directive is optional for the following vehicles:

(a)

vehicles designed and constructed for use principally on construction sites or in quarries, port or airport facilities;

(b)

vehicles designed and constructed for use by the armed services, civil defence, fire services and forces responsible for maintaining public order; and

(c)

mobile machinery,

to the extent that these vehicles fulfil the requirements of this Directive. Such optional approvals shall be without prejudice to the application of Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery ( 3 ).

4. An individual approval under this Directive is optional for the following vehicles:

(a)

vehicles intended exclusively for racing on roads;

(b)

prototypes of vehicles used on the road under the responsibility of a manufacturer to perform a specific test programme provided they have been specifically designed and constructed for this purpose.

Article 3

Definitions

For the purposes of this Directive and of the regulatory acts listed in Annex IV, save as otherwise provided therein:

1.

‘regulatory act’ means a separate directive or regulation or a UNECE Regulation annexed to the Revised 1958 Agreement;

2.

‘separate directive or regulation’ means a directive or regulation listed in Part I of Annex IV. This term includes also their implementing acts;

3.

‘type-approval’ means the procedure whereby a Member State certifies that a type of vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit satisfies the relevant administrative provisions and technical requirements;

4.

‘national type-approval’ means a type-approval procedure laid down by the national law of a Member State, the validity of such approval being restricted to the territory of that Member State;

5.

‘EC type-approval’ means the procedure whereby a Member State certifies that a type of vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit satisfies the relevant administrative provisions and technical requirements of this Directive and of the regulatory acts listed in Annex IV or XI;

6.

‘individual approval’ means the procedure whereby a Member State certifies that a particular vehicle, whether unique or not, satisfies the relevant administrative provisions and technical requirements;

7.

‘multi-stage type-approval’ means the procedure whereby one or more Member States certify that, depending on the state of completion, an incomplete or completed type of vehicle satisfies the relevant administrative provisions and technical requirements of this Directive;

8.

‘step-by-step type-approval’ means a vehicle approval procedure consisting in the step-by-step collection of the whole set of EC type-approval certificates for the systems, components and separate technical units relating to the vehicle, and which leads, at the final stage, to the approval of the whole vehicle;

9.

‘single-step type-approval’ means a procedure consisting in the approval of a vehicle as a whole by means of a single operation;

10.

‘mixed type-approval’ means a...