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Council Directive of 27 July 1976 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to front fog lamps for motor vehicles (76/762/EEC)
Consolidated text: Council Directive of 27 July 1976 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to front fog lamps for motor vehicles (76/762/EEC)
Council Directive of 27 July 1976 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to front fog lamps for motor vehicles (76/762/EEC)
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COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 27 July 1976 ►M2 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to front fog lamps for motor vehicles ◄ (OJ L 262, 27.9.1976, p.122) |
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COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
of 27 July 1976
►M2 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to front fog lamps for motor vehicles ◄
(76/762/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament ( 1 ),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee ( 2 ),
Whereas the technical requirements which motor vehicles must satisfy pursuant to national laws relate inter alia to their front fog lamps;
Whereas those requirements differ from one Member State to another; whereas it is therefore necessary that all Member States adopt the same requirements either in addition to or in place of their existing rules, in order, in particular, to allow the EEC type-approval procedure which was the subject of Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers ( 3 ), to be introduced in respect of each type of vehicle;
Whereas in Directive 76/756/EEC ( 4 ), the Council laid down the common requirements for the installation of lighting and light-signalling devices on motor vehicles and their trailers;
Whereas a harmonized type-approval procedure for front fog lamps makes it possible for each Member State to check compliance with the common construction and testing requirements and to inform the other Member States of its findings by sending a copy of the component type-approval certificate completed for each type of front fog lamp; whereas the placing of an EEC component type-approval mark on all front fog lamps manufactured in conformity with the approved type obviates any need for technical checks on these front fog lamps in the other Member States:
Whereas it is desirable to take into account the technical requirements adopted by the UN Economic Commission for Europe in its Regulation No 19 (‘Uniform provisions concerning the approval of motor vehicle fog lights’) ( 5 ), which is annexed to the Agreement of 20 March 1958 concerning the adoption of uniform conditions for approval and reciprocal recognition of approval for motor vehicle equipment and parts;
Whereas the approximation of national laws relating to motor vehicles entails reciprocal recognition by Member States of the checks carried out by each of them on the basis of the common requirements,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Article 1
1. Each Member State shall grant EC component type-approval for any type of rear fog lamp which satisfies the construction and testing requirements laid down in the relevant Annexes.
2. The Member State which granted EEC component type-approval shall take the measures required in order to verify that production models conform to the approved type, in so far as this is necessary and if need be in cooperation with the competent authorities in the other Member States. Such verification shall be limited to spot checks.
Article 2
Member States shall, for each type of front fog lamp which they approve pursuant to Article 1, issue to the manufacturer an EC component type-approval mark conforming to the model shown in Annex I, Appendix 3.
Member States shall take all appropriate measures to prevent the use of marks liable to create confusion between front fog lamps which have been type-approved pursuant to Article 1, and other devices.
Article 3
1. No Member State may prohibit the placing on the market of front fog lamps on grounds relating to their construction or method of functioning if they bear the EEC component type-approval mark.
2. Nevertheless, a Member State may prohibit the placing on the market of front fog lamps bearing the EEC component type-approval mark which consistently fail to conform to the approved type.
That State shall inform the other Member States and the Commission forthwith of the measures taken, specifying the reasons for its decision.
Article 4
The competent authorities of the Member States shall inform each other, by means of the procedures specified in Article 4 (6) of Directive 70/156/EEC, of each approval which they have granted, refused or withdrawn pursuant to this Directive.
Article 5
1. If the Member State which has granted EEC component type-approval finds that a number of front fog lamps bearing the same EEC component type-approval mark do not conform to the type which it has approved, it shall take the necessary measures to ensure that production models conform to the approved type. The competent authorities of that State shall advise those of the other Member States of the measures taken which may, where there is consistent failure to conform, extend to withdrawal of EEC component type-approval. The said authorities shall take the same measures if they are informed by the competent authorities of another Member State of such failure to conform.
2. The competent authorities of Member States shall inform each other within one month of any withdrawal of EEC component type-approval, and of the reasons for such a measure.
Article 6
Any decision taken pursuant to the provisions adopted in implementation of this Directive, to refuse or withdraw EEC component type-approval for front fog lamps or prohibit their placing on the market or use shall set out in detail the reasons on which it is based. Such decisions shall be notified to the party concerned, who shall at the same time be informed of the remedies available to him under the laws in force in the Member States and of the time limits allowed for the exercise of such remedies.
Article 7
No Member State may refuse to grant EEC type-approval or national type-approval of any vehicle on grounds relating to its front fog lamps if these bear the EEC component type-approval mark and are fitted in accordance with the requirements laid down in Directive 76/756/EEC.
Article 8
No Member State may refuse or prohibit the sale, registration, entry into service or use of any vehicle on grounds relating to its front fog lamps if these bear the EEC component type-approval mark and are fitted in accordance with the requirements laid down in Directive 76/756/EEC.
Article 9
For the purposes of this Directive, ‘vehicle’ means any motor vehicle intended for use on the road, with or without bodywork, having at least four wheels and a maximum design speed exceeding 25 km/h, and its trailers, with the exception of vehicles which run on rails and of agricultural and forestry tractors and all mobile machinery.
Article 10
Any amendments necessary to adjust the requirements of the Annexes to take account of technical progress shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 13 of Directive 70/156/EEEC.
Article 11
1. Member States shall adopt and publish the provisions necessary in order to comply with this Directive before 1 July 1977 and shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof. They shall apply these provisions from 1 October 1977 at the latest.
2. Once this Directive has been notified, the Member States shall also ensure that the Commission is informed, in sufficient time for it to submit its comments, of any draft laws, regulations or administrative provisions which they propose to adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
Article 12
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
LIST OF ANNEXES
ANNEX I: |
Administrative provisions for type-approval |
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Appendix 1: |
Information document |
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Appendix 2: |
Type-approval certificate |
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Appendix 3: |
Models of the EC component type-approval mark |
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ANNEX II: |
Technical requirements |
ANNEX I
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS FOR TYPE-APPROVAL
1. APPLICATION FOR EC COMPONENT TYPE-APPROVAL
1.1. |
The application for EC component type-approval pursuant to Article 3(4) of Directive 70/156/EEC of a type of front fog lamp shall be submitted by the manufacturer. |
1.2. |
A model for the information document is given in Appendix 1. |
1.3. |
The following must be submitted to the technical service responsible for conducting the type-approval tests:
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2. MARKINGS
2.1. |
The devices submitted for EC component type approval must bear: 2.1.1. the trade name or mark of the manufacturer; 2.1.2. in the case of lamps with replaceable light sources: the type(s) of filament lamp prescribed; 2.1.3. in the case of lamps with non-replaceable light sources: the nominal voltage and wattage. |
2.2. |
These markings shall be clearly legible and indelible and shall be affixed to the illuminating surface, or to one of the illuminating surfaces, of the device. They shall be visible from the exterior when the device is fitted to the vehicle. |
2.3. |
Each device shall have sufficient space for the component type-approval mark. This space shall be indicated on the drawings referred to in Appendix 1. |
3. GRANTING OF EC COMPONENT TYPE-APPROVAL
3.1. If the relevant requirements are satisfied, EC type-approval pursuant to Article 4(3) and, if applicable, Article 4(4) of Directive 70/156/EEC shall be granted.
NB:
Nothing in this Directive shall prevent a Member State from prohibiting the combination of a headlamp incorporating a lens of plastic material approved under this Directive with a mechanical headlamp-cleaning device (with wipers).
3.2. A model for the EC type-approval certificate is given in Appendix 2.
3.3. An approval number in accordance with Annex VII to Directive 70/156/EEC shall be assigned to each type of front fog lamp approved. The same Member State shall not assign the same number to another type of front fog lamp.
3.4. Where EC component type approval is requested for a type of lighting and light-signalling device comprising a front fog lamp and other lamps, a single EC component type-approval number may be assigned provided that the front fog lamp complies with the requirements of this Directive and that each of the other lamps forming part of the lighting and light-signalling device for which EC component type approval is requested complies with the separate Directive applying to it.
4. EC COMPONENT TYPE-APPROVAL MARK
4.1. |
In addition to the markings referred to in item 2.1., every front fog lamp conforming to the type approved pursuant to this Directive shall bear an EC component type-approval mark. |
4.2. |
This mark shall consist of:
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4.3. |
The EC component type-approval mark shall be affixed to the lens of the lamp or one of the lenses in such a way as to be indelible and clearly legible even when the lamps are fitted to the vehicle. |
4.4. |
Arrangement of the approval mark.
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5. MODIFICATIONS OF THE TYPE AND AMENDMENTS TO APPROVALS
5.1. In the case of modifications of the type approved pursuant to this Directive, the provisions of Article 5 of Directive 70/156/EEC shall apply.
6. CONFORMITY OF PRODUCTION
6.1. As a general rule, measures to ensure the conformity of production shall be taken in accordance with the provisions laid down in Article 10 of Directive 70/156/EEC.
6.2. In particular, the tests to be carried out pursuant to point 2.3.5. of Annex X to Directive 70/156/EEC are those prescribed in point 3 of Annex 5 and in Annex 6, and the criteria to be used in selecting samples for the tests mentioned in points 2.4.2. and 2.4.3. of Annex X are those in Annex 7 of the documents referred to in point 1 of Annex II to this Directive.
6.3. The normal frequency of inspections authorised by the approval authority shall be one every two years.
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
EXAMPLES OF THE EC COMPONENT TYPE-APPROVAL MARK
Figure 1a
Figure 1b
The device bearing the EC component type-approval mark shown above is a front fog lamp, type approved in Germany (e1) pursuant to this Directive (02) under the base approval number 1471.
Figure 1a indicates that the front fog lamp incorporates a lens of plastic material and that it cannot be lit simultaneously with any other lamp with which it may be reciprocally incorporated.
Figure 1b indicates that the front fog lamp can be lit simultaneously with any other lamp with which it may be reciprocally incorporated.
Figure 2
Simplified marking of grouped, combined or reciprocally incorporated lamps when two or more lamps are part of the same assembly
(The vertical and horizontal lines schematise the shape of the light-signalling device. These are not part of the approval mark)
MODEL A
MODEL B
MODEL C
MODEL D
Note:
The four examples of approval marks, models A, B, C and D represent four possible variants of the marking of a lighting and light-signalling device when two or more lamps are part of the same unit of grouped, combined or reciprocally incorporated lamps. This approval marks shows that the device was approved in Germany (e1) under the base approval number 7120 and comprises:
A front position lamp A approved in accordance with Annex II to Directive 76/758/EEC, sequence No 02, for left-hand installation;
A headlamp (HCR) with a passing beam designed for right-hand and left-hand traffic and driving beam with a maximum intensity comprised between 86 250 and 101 250 candelas (as indicated by the number 30) approved in accordance with Annex V to Directive 76/761/EEC, sequence No 02, and incorporating a lens of plastic material (PL);
A front fog lamp (B) approved in accordance with Directive 76/762/EEC, sequence No 02, and incorporating a lens of plastic material (PL);
A front direction indicator lamp of category 1a approved in accordance with Directive 76/759/EEC, sequence No 01.
Figure 3
Lamp reciprocally incorporated or grouped with a headlamp
The above example corresponds to the marking of a lens intended to be used in different types of headlamps, namely:
either: a headlamp with a passing beam designed for both traffic systems and a driving beam with a maximum luminous intensity comprised between 86 250 and 101 250 candelas (as indicated by the number 30) approved in Germany (e1) under the base approval number 7120 in accordance with the requirements of Annex IV to Directive 76/761/EEC, sequence No 04, which is reciprocally incorporated a front fog lamp approved in accordance with Directive 76/762/EEC, sequence No 02,
or:
a headlamp with a passing beam and a driving beam, designed for both traffic systems and approved in Germany (e1) under the base approval number 7122 in accordance with the requirements of Annex II to Directive 76/761/EEC, sequence No 01, which is reciprocally incorporated with the same front fog lamp as above,
or:
even either of the abovementioned headlamps approved as a single lamp.
The main body of the headlamp shall bear the only valid approval number, for instance:
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or
or
ANNEX II
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
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The technical requirements are those set out in paragraphs 1. and 5. to 8. and Annexes 3 to 7 of UN-ECE Regulation No 19 which consists of a consolidation of the following documents: — the 02 series of amendments incorporating Supplements 1 to 4 to the 02 series of amendments ( 7 ), — Supplement 5 to the 02 series of amendments including Corrections to Revision 3 of Regulation No 19 ( 8 ), — Supplement 6 to the 02 series of amendments ( 9 ), — Supplement 7 to the 02 series of amendments ( 10 ), — Supplement 8 to the 02 series of amendments ( 11 ), except that: |
1.1. |
Where reference is made to ‘Regulation No 37’, this shall be understood as ‘Annex VII to Directive 76/761/EEC’. |
1.2. |
In paragraph 5.1., ‘paragraph 2.2.3. above’ means ‘point 1.3.1. of Annex I to this Directive’. |
1.3. |
In Annex 5, paragraph 1.1. and Appendix 1, the title of Table A, ‘paragraph 2.2.4. of this Regulation’ means ‘point 1.3.2. of Annex I to this Directive’. |
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In Annex 5, paragraph 1.2. and Appendix 1, the title of Table B, ‘paragraph 2.2.3. of this Regulation’ means ‘point 1.3.1. of Annex I to this Directive’. |
1.5. |
In Annex 5, paragraph 2.4.2., ‘paragraph 2.2.4.1.1.’ means ‘point 1.3.2.1.1. of Annex I to this Directive’. |
1.6. |
In Annex 7, paragraphs 2.3 and 3.3., ‘paragraph 12’ means ‘Article 11 of Directive 70/156/EEC’. |
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In Annex 6, paragraph 2.5., ‘paragraph 11.1. of this Regulation’ means ‘point 2.1. of Annex X to Directive 70/156/EEC’. |
( 1 ) OJ No C 55, 13.5.1974, p. 14.
( 2 ) OJ No C 109, 19.9.1974, p. 24.
( 3 ) OJ No L 42, 23.2.1970, p. 1.
( 4 ) See page 1 of this Official Journal.
( 5 ) Economic Commission for Europe, Document
E/ECE/324 |
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( 6 ) Of the documents referred to in item 1 of Annex II to this Directive.
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E/ECE/324 |
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( 10 ) TRANS/WP. 29/568.
( 11 ) TRANS/WP. 29/617.