COMMUNITY MEASURE : Commission directive 2003/77/EC amending Directives 97/24/EC and 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to the type-approval of two-or three-wheel motor vehicles.
CONTENT : Directive 97/24/EC is one of the separate Directives for the purposes of the EC type-approval procedure laid down by Council Directive 92/61/EEC, which is to be repealed by Directive 2002/24/EC with effect from 9 November 2003.
Directive 2002/51/EC on the reduction of the level of pollutant emissions from two- and three-wheel motor vehicles and amending Directive 97/24/EC introduced new emission limit values for two-wheel motorcycles. Those limit values are applicable in two stages, the first stage with effect from 1 April 2003 for any type of vehicle and the second stage with effect from 1 January 2006 for new types. For the second stage, the measurement of pollutant emissions from two-wheel motorcycles is based on the use of the elementary urban test cycle laid down in UN-ECE Regulation No 40 and the extra-urban driving cycle laid down in Council Directive 70/220/EEC.
Directive 97/24/EC specified the Type I test cycle for measuring pollutant emissions from two- and three-wheel motor vehicles. That test will be applicable from 2006.
This Directive clarifies certain aspects of the Type II test data for annual roadworthiness testing, as required by Directive 2002/51/EC, provides for the recording of that test data in Annex VII to Directive 2002/24/EC. Directives 97/24/EC and 2002/24/EC are amended accordingly.
DATE FOR TRANSPOSITION : 4 September 2004.
DATE APPLICABLE : 4 September 2004.
ENTRY INTO FORCE : 10/09/03.�