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Reference COD/2001/0135  
Title Road safety: speed limitation devices for commercial motor vehicles (amend. direct. 92/6/EEC)
Legal Basis EC 071-p1  
Dossier of the committee RETT/5/16025
Subject(s) 3.20.06 transport regulations, road safety, roadworthiness tests, driving licence
3.40.03 motor industry, cycle and motorcycle, commercial and agricultural vehicles
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Source reference Equivalent references Votes and amendments Joint resolution of document of publication in Official Journal
Commission/Council: initial legislative document Summaries EC COM(2001)0318 C5-0267/2001         14/06/2001 C 270 25.09.2001, p. 0077 E
EP: draft report by the committee responsible   EP PE301.840           13/11/2001  
Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report   ESC CES1476/2001           28/11/2001 C 048 21.02.2002, p. 0047
EP: decision of the committee responsible, 1st reading/single reading Summaries               22/01/2002  
EP: tabled legislative report, 1st reading or single reading   EP A5-0012/2002           22/01/2002  
EP: position, 1st reading or single reading Summaries EP T5-0049/2002           07/02/2002 C 284 21.11.2002, p. 0206-0295 E
Council: common position Summaries CSL 08625/1/2002 C5-0310/2002         25/06/2002 C 228 25.09.2002, p. 0014 E
Commission: modified legislative proposal Summaries EC COM(2002)0351 C5-0139/2002         26/06/2002 C 227 24.09.2002, p. 0567 E
Commission: communication on the common position Summaries EC SEC(2002)0748           28/06/2002  
EP: draft report by the committee responsible   EP PE314.718           21/08/2002  
EP: decision of the committee responsible, 2nd reading Summaries               10/09/2002  
EP: tabled legislative report, 2nd reading   EP A5-0281/2002           10/09/2002  
EP: position, 2nd reading Summaries EP T5-0423/2002           24/09/2002 C 273 14.11.2003, p. 0022-0073 E
Final legislative act Summaries EU 32002L0085           05/11/2002 L 327 04.12.2002, p. 0008-0009
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Hatzidakis Konstantinos
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10/07/2001
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05/11/2002 - Final legislative act
PURPOSE : to extend the scope of Council Directive 92/6/EEC on the installation and use of speed limitation devices for certain categories of motor vehicles in the Community.
COMMUNITY MEASURE : Directive 2002/85/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.
CONTENT : to recall, transport safety and environmental issues connected with transport are vital in ensuring sustainable mobility. The use of speed limitation devices for heaviest-motor vehicle categories has had a positive effect on the improvement of road safety. It has also contributed to environmental protection. Council Directive 92/6/EEC provides that, depending on technical possibilities and experiences in Member States, the requirements on installation and use of speed limitation devices could subsequently be extended to light goods vehicles.
The extension of the scope of Directive 92/6/EEC to vehicles of more than 3,5 tonnes designed for transporting goods or passengers was one of the measures advocated by the Council in its resolution of 26 June 2000 on the improvement of road safety, in accordance with the Commission communication of 20 March 2000 on priorities in EU road safety.
The scope of Directive 92/6/EEC should be extended to motor vehicles of category M2, to vehicles of category M3 having a maximum mass of more than 5 tonnes but not exceeding 10 tonnes and to vehicles of category N2.
Since the objectives of the proposed action, namely the introduction of modifications to the Community-wide arrangements for the installation and use of speed limitation devices on certain heavy vehicle categories, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale or effects of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve those objectives.
Therefore this Directive amends Directive 92/6/EEC accordingly.
The Directive stipulates that for the purposes of this Directive, 'motor vehicle' means any power-driven vehicle falling within category M2, M3, N2 or N3, intended for use on the road and having at least four wheels and a maximum design speed exceeding 25 km/h. Categories M2, M3, N2 and N3 shall be understood to be those defined in Annex II to Directive 70/156/EEC. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that motor vehicles of categories M2 and M3 referred to in Article 1 may be used on the road only if equipped with a speed limitation device set in such a way that their speed cannot exceed 100 kilometres per hour.
Category M3 vehicles registered before 1 January 2005 with a maximum mass exceeding 10 tonnes may continue to be equipped with devices on which the maximum speed is set at 100 kilometres per hour.
Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that motor vehicles of categories N2 and N3 may be used on the road only if equipped with a speed limitation device set in such a way that their speed cannot exceed 90 kilometres per hour.
Member States shall be authorised to require that the speed limitation device in vehicles registered in their territory andused exclusively for the transport of dangerous goods is set in such a way that those vehicles cannot exceed a maximum speed of less than 90 kilometres per hour.
For motor vehicles of category M3 having a maximum mass of more than 10 tonnes and motor vehicles of category N3, Articles 2 and 3 shall be applied:
a) to vehicles registered as from 1 January 1994, from 1 January 1994;
b) to vehicles registered between 1 January 1988 and 1 January 1994:
i) from 1 January 1995, in the case of vehicles used for both national and international transport;
ii) from 1 January 1996, in the case of vehicles used exclusively for national transport.
For motor vehicles of category M2, vehicles of category M3 having a maximum mass of more than 5 tonnes but not exceeding 10 tonnes and vehicles of category N2, Articles 2 and 3 shall apply at the latest:
a) to vehicles registered as from 1 January 2005;
b) to vehicles complying with the limit values set out in Directive 88/77/EEC registered between 1 October 2001 and 1 January 2005:
i) from 1 January 2006 in the case of vehicles used for both national and international transport operations;
ii) from 1 January 2007 in the case of vehicles used solely for national transport operations.
For a period of no more than three years from 1 January 2005, any Member State may exempt from the provisions of Articles 2 and 3 category M2 vehicles and category N2 vehicles with a maximum mass of more than 3,5 tonnes but not exceeding 7,5 tonnes, registered in the national register and not travelling on the territory of another Member State.
The speed limitation devices referred to in Articles 2 and 3 must satisfy the technical requirements laid down in the Annex to Directive 92/24/EEC. However, all vehicles covered by this Directive and registered before 1 January 2005 may continue to be equipped with speed limitation devices which satisfy the technical requirements laid down by the competent national authorities. Speed limitation devices shall be installed by workshops or bodies approved by the Member States.
The Commission shall evaluate, as part of the road safety action programme for the period 2002 to 2010, the road safety and road traffic implications of adjusting the speed limitation devices used by category M2 vehicles and by category N2 vehicles with a maximum mass of 7,5 tonnes or less to the speeds laid down by this Directive. If necessary, the Commission shall submit appropriate proposals.
ENTRY INTO FORCE : 4 December 2002.
DATE OF TRANSPOSITION : 1 January 2005.
 
List of summaries
Summaries 05/11/2002 Final legislative act
Summaries 24/09/2002 EP: position, 2nd reading
Summaries 10/09/2002 EP: decision of the committee responsible, 2nd reading
Summaries 28/06/2002 Commission: communication on the common position
Summaries 26/06/2002 Commission: modified legislative proposal
Summaries 25/06/2002 Council: common position
Summaries 07/02/2002 EP: position, 1st reading or single reading
Summaries 22/01/2002 EP: decision of the committee responsible, 1st reading/single reading
Summaries 14/06/2001 Commission/Council: initial legislative document
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