Roadworthiness tests for vehicles, speed limitation devices (consol. and amend. Directive 77/143/EEC)

1995/0226(SYN)
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'. �