approval

1 The admission of a type of construction and the admission to operation shall be evidenced by separate documents called:

8 Only the authority which has granted the admission of a type of construction or the admission to operation may withdraw it.

6 An admission of a type of construction may be withdrawn when safety, public health or respect for the environment are no longer assured with the circulation of railway vehicles which have been or are to be built in conformity with that type of construction.

EEC pattern approval shall be valid for ten years.

EEC pattern approval may be subject to the following restrictions:

EEC pattern approvals and EEC limited pattern approvals shall be published in a special Annex to the Official Journal of the European Communities.

EEC pattern approval constitutes the admission of a manufacturer's instruments to EEC initial verification and, where the latter is not required, the authorisation to place them on the market and put them into service.

EEC pattern approval shall be valid for 10 years.

TYPE APPROVAL OF RECORDING EQUIPMENT AND TACHOGRAPH CARDS

The EEC type approval for a recording equipment (or component) or a tachograph card is based on:

Type approval of recording equipment and of tachograph cards shall include security related tests, functional tests and interoperability tests.

type approval of terminal or other equipment which interfaces with the network and technical requirements relating to the attachment of such equipment to such networks;

EEC pattern approval of instruments constitutes their admission to EEC initial verification and, where the latter is not required, the authorization to place them on the market and/or to put them into service.

I. TYPE APPROVAL

'The type approval procedure for the recording equipment (or component) or tachograph card is based on:'

1 The grant of technical admission (admission of a type of construction, admission to operation) shall be attached to the type of construction of a railway vehicle or to the railway vehicle.

Any modifications or additions to an approved model must receive additional type approval from the Contracting Party which granted the original type approval.

Applications for the approval of a type of control device or of a model record sheet or memory card shall be submitted, accompanied by the appropriate specifications, by the manufacturer or his agent to a Contracting Party.

Applications for the approval of a type of control device or of a model record sheet shall be submitted, accompanied by the appropriate specifications, by the manufacturer or his agent to a Contracting Party.

If a Contracting Party which has granted the type approval as provided for in article 2 finds that certain control device or record sheets bearing the type approval mark which it has issued do not conform to the prototype which it has approved, it shall take the necessary measures to ensure that production models conform to the approved prototype.

If a Contracting Party which has granted the type approval disputes the existence of any of the cases specified in paragraphs 1 or 2 notified to it, the Contracting Parties concerned shall endeavour to settle the dispute.

The competent authorities of the Contracting Party to which the application for type approval has been submitted shall, in respect of each type of control device or model record sheet which they approve or refuse to approve, either send within one month to the authorities of the other Contracting Parties a copy of the approval certificate accompanied by copies of the relevant specifications, or, if such is the case, notify those authorities that approval has been refused; in cases of refusal they shall communicate the reasons for their decision.

The competent authorities of the Contracting Party to which the application for type approval has been submitted shall, in respect of each type of control device or model record sheet or memory card which they approve or refuse to approve, either send within one month to the authorities of the other Contracting Parties a copy of the approval certificate accompanied by copies of the relevant specifications, or, if such is the case, notify those authorities that approval has been refused; in cases of refusal they shall communicate the reasons for their decision.

If a Contracting Party which has granted the type approval is notified by another Contracting Party of one of the cases referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, it shall also, after consulting the latter Contracting Party, take the steps laid down in those paragraphs, subject to paragraph 5.

g) ` admission of a type of construction` means the procedure, relating to a type of construction of a railway vehicle, carried out by the competent authority, by which the right is granted to deliver, by a simplified procedure, an admission to operation for vehicles which correspond to that type of construction;

An applicant for the type approval of a model record sheet shall state on his application the type or types of control device on which the sheet in question is designed to be used and shall provide suitable equipment of such type or types for the purpose of testing the sheet.

An applicant for type approval of a model record sheet shall state on his application the type or types of control device on which the sheet in question is designed to be used and shall provide a suitable device of such type or types for the purpose of testing the sheet.

(b) Any modification in a constituent part of the control device or in the nature of the materials used for its manufacture must, before being applied in manufacture, be submitted for approval to the authority which granted type-approval for the control device.

1 Technical admission shall be carried out a) either, in a single stage, by the grant of admission to operation to a given individual railway vehicle, b) or, in two successive stages, by the grant of admission of a type of construction to a given type of railway vehicle, then admission to operation of individual vehicles corresponding to this type of construction by a simplified procedure confirming that they are of this type.

Provisions for both EEC pattern approval and EEC initial verification

its pattern has received EEC pattern approval;

When EEC pattern approval is granted for ancillary equipment, this approval shall specify:

First stage: the taximeter shall receive the EEC partial initial verification mark when: (a) its pattern has received EEC pattern approval;

Application for EEC pattern approval of a given pattern of instrument may be submitted in only one Member State.

Modifications or additions to an approved pattern must receive additional pattern approval from the Member State which granted EEC pattern approval, where such changes influence or might influence measurement results or the prescribed conditions for use of the instrument.

whether the instrument has received an EEC pattern approval and, if so, whether it conforms to the approved pattern.

A Member State which refuses to grant EEC pattern approval shall inform the other Member States and the Commission of its decision.

A Member State which has granted EEC pattern approval shall take the necessary steps to ensure that it is kept informed of any modification or addition to the approved pattern.

The Member State which has granted EEC pattern approval may withdraw it: (a) if instruments for which this approval was granted do not conform to the approved pattern or to the provisions of the relevant separate directive;

When EEC pattern approval is not extended, instruments already in service which conform to the provisions of this Directive shall be considered to be approved.

Member States shall grant EEC pattern approval in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, of items 1 and 2 of Annex I, and of the relevant separate directives.

They may also specify: - whether in all Member States these instruments must undergo both EEC pattern approval and EEC initial verification or just one of these;

When new techniques which are not provided for in a separate directive are employed, limited EEC pattern approval may be granted after previous consultation with other Member States.

When EEC pattern approval is not required for a category of instruments which meets the requirements of a separate directive, the manufacturer may, on his own responsibility, affix to the instruments in this category the special sign described in item 3.3 of Annex I.

The Member State which has granted EEC pattern approval must withdraw it if the instruments constructed according to an approved pattern reveal in service a defect of a general nature which makes them unsuitable for their intended use.

If the Member State which granted limited EEC pattern approval referred to in paragraph 3 considers that a new technique has proved satisfactory, it shall apply for an adjustment of the relevant directive to technical progress, in accordance with the provisions of Articles 18 and 19.

Member States may require EEC pattern approval or EEC initial verification for a category of instruments only if corresponding controls are laid down for instruments of the same category satisfying national requirements which have not been harmonised at Community level.

The type shall be represented by three sample meters intended for type approval tests, the characteristics of which (basic current and reference voltage) shall be chosen by the metrological service concerned from among those appearing in the tables proposed by the manufacturer (clause 6.1.1).

In so far as their control equipment permits, Member States shall, at the request of the manufacturer or of his authorised representative, grant EEC pattern approval for every pattern of instrument and all ancillary equipment which satisfies the measurement characteristics and the technical design and functioning requirements laid down by the separate directive relating to the category of instrument in question.