The common position of the Council included Parliament's three amendments accepted by the
Commission in its amended proposal. There were some divergences between the common position
and the Commission proposal:
- the option for Member States of excluding fire appliances and vehicles of historic interest
manufactured before 1 January 1960 from the scope of the directive;
- fixing the date of implementation of the directive as one year after its entry into force (instead of
1 January 1996 as stated previously);
- the obligation for Member States to adopt the measures necessary to implement the system of tests
laid down in the directive - these measure must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive;
- the amendment in Annex II to the draft directive on tachographs; the new text reading 'check, if
in doubt, whether, the nominal circumference or size of tyre matches the data given on the
tachograph plate'.
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