Registration of colour codes on the registration certificates of motor vehicles - Draft Council conclusions - Main contents

Document date	21-11-2000
Publication date	22-01-2013
Reference	13609/00
From	Presidency
To	Police Cooperation Working Party
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COUNCIL OF Brussels, 21 November 2000 (29.11)

THE EUROPEAN UNION (OR. fr)

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NOTE from : Presidency to : Police Cooperation Working Party No. prev. doc.: 11274/1/99 ENFOPOL 62 REV 1 Subject: Registration of colour codes on the registration certificates of motor vehicles – Draft Council conclusions

Having regard to the Finnish Presidency initiative to draw up a common position for harmonising coding of vehicle colours by the authorities responsible for vehicle registration in the Member

States of the European Union, and the work of the Police Cooperation Working Party together with the ENFSI's proceedings on the subject,

The French Presidency proposes adoption of the draft Council conclusions attached to this Note:

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DRAFT

Conclusions of the Council of the European Union on the case for including a colour code on vehicle registration certificates

The Council of the European Union,

Points to the importance of better combating the development of organised crime and of better protecting public and private interests in police and/or judicial inquiries;

Considers that it is important to facilitate checks intended particularly to combat fraud and illegal trade in stolen vehicles, and to facilitate the identification of a vehicle (make, type, model) and its owner in police and/or judicial inquiries conducted following the discovery of a chip of paint at the scene of a crime (fatal accident or grievous bodily harm, "hit and run" or "ram-raiding", etc.);

Considers that there are genuine operational grounds for specifying the colour and its alphanumeric code on the registration certificates of vehicles registered in an EU Member State;

Bearing in mind the work carried out by the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes

(ENFSI) on the subject;

Recognises that the procedure for specifying a colour code on the registration certificate of a new vehicle would require inclusion of this information on the certificate of conformity supplied by the car manufacturer when the vehicle is first put into circulation;

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Notes that Council Directive 1999/37/EC i of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles already states that the colour of the vehicle may be specified but that it is only an option, leaving implementation to the judgment of the Member States;

Invites the European Commission to study the possibility of submitting a proposal for an amendment to Directive 1999/37/EC i intended to introduce compulsory indication of an adjective and alphanumeric code specifying the colour of the vehicle on the registration certificates of motor vehicles registered in an EU Member State, taking into account the guidelines mentioned in the

Annex.

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ANNEX

9-place colour code

1st – 7th place: Seven characters (numbers or letters) used to encode surface paint colours. The use of the manufacturer's colour code indicated on the vehicle identification plate is suggested.

8th place: This place is used to indicate whether the paint in question is a uniform surface paint or a special-effect paint (metallic, pearl-effect, etc.).

S = solid paint E = effect paint

9th place: Entry of the basic colour using the numbers 0 to 9.

0= white 1= yellow 2= orange 3= red 4= violet 5= blue 6= green 7=grey 8= brown 9= black

Example 1:

Make of automobile: Honda

Paint colour (surface-coat): steel grey metallic

Colour code on ID-plate: NH535M

Colour code using 9-place identifier: 0NH535M E7

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Example 2:

Make of automobile: Toyota

Paint colour (surface-coat): super white 11

Colour code on ID plate: 040

Colour code using 9-place identifier: 0000040 S0

Example 3:

Make of automobile: Mitsubishi

Paint colour (surface-coat): Rubens maroon

Colour code on ID-plate: R12

Colour code using 9-place identifier: 0000R12 S3

Example 4:

Make of automobile: As only a paint smear was recovered, the colour could not be reliably identified.

Paint colour (surface coat): dark-blue metallic

Colour code on ID-plate: no information

Colour code using 9-place identifier: 0000000E5

Example 5:

Make of automobile: As only a paint smear was recovered, the colour could not be reliably identified.

paint colour (surface-coat): solid colour, beige colour code on ID- plate: no information

Colour code using 9-place identifier: 0000000S1

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