Directive 2000/40 - Approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the front underrun protection of motor vehicles

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Current status

This directive was in effect from August 10, 2000 until October 31, 2014 and should have been implemented in national regulation on August  9, 2001 at the latest.

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Key information

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Directive 2000/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2000 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the front underrun protection of motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC
 
Legal instrument Directive
Number legal act Directive 2000/40
Original proposal COM(1999)32 EN
CELEX number i 32000L0040

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Key dates

Document 26-06-2000
Publication in Official Journal 10-08-2000; Special edition in Slovak: Chapter 13 Volume 025,Special edition in Estonian: Chapter 13 Volume 025,Special edition in Hungarian: Chapter 13 Volume 025,Special edition in Bulgarian: Chapter 13 Volume 030,Special edition in Slovenian: Chapter 13 Volume 025,Special edition in Lithuanian: Chapter 13 Volume 025,Special edition in Czech: Chapter 13 Volume 025,Special edition in Polish: Chapter 13 Volume 025,Special edition in Maltese: Chapter 13 Volume 025,Special edition in Croatian: Chapter 13 Volume 010,Special edition in Latvian: Chapter 13 Volume 025,Special edition in Romanian: Chapter 13 Volume 030,OJ L 203, 10.8.2000
Effect 10-08-2000; Entry into force Date pub. See Art 6
End of validity 31-10-2014; Repealed by 32009R0661
Transposition 09-08-2001; See Art 5.1

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32000L0040

Directive 2000/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2000 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the front underrun protection of motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC

Official Journal L 203 , 10/08/2000 P. 0009 - 0028

Directive 2000/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

of 26 June 2000

on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the front underrun protection of motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 95 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee(2),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty(3),

Whereas:

  • (1) 
    By Decision 97/836/EC(4), the Council, with the assent of the European Parliament, authorised the Community to accede to the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted to and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions, done at Geneva on 20 March 1958, as revised on 16 October 1995.
  • (2) 
    Through its accession to the said Agreement, the Community subscribed to a defined list of Regulations established pursuant to that Agreement. This list includes UN/ECE Regulation No 93(5).
  • (3) 
    In order to reduce the number of European road accident casualties, it is necessary to introduce without delay the measures established by UNE/ECE Regulation No 93 into the EC type-approval procedure set up by Council Directive 70/156/EEC(6), so as to improve the protection of the occupants of passenger cars and light vans from injury in the event of a collision with the front of heavy goods vehicles and to allow manufacturers of such devices and of vehicles equipped with such devices to obtain an EC type-approval if they meet the technical requirements of that Regulation.
  • (4) 
    In accordance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty, the objectives of this Directive cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States on account of the scale and effect of the action proposed in the relevant sector, and can therefore be better achieved by the Community. This Directive does not go beyond what is necessary for the attainment of its objective, namely EC type-approval.
  • (5) 
    This Directive is one of the separate directives which must be complied with in order to conform to the EC type-approval procedure. Consequently, the provisions laid down in Directive 70/156/EEC relating to vehicles, vehicle systems, components and separate technical units apply to this Directive.
  • (6) 
    In view of the considerable number of road accidents involving commercial vehicles having a mass of more than 3,5 tonnes, and consequently in order to increase road safety, the provisions concerning such vehicles should be made mandatory by this Directive without awaiting any further supplements to EC type-approval for this category of vehicles.
  • (7) 
    Directive 70/156/EEC should be amended in consequence,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

For the purposes of this Directive:

(a) "vehicle" means any motor vehicle as defined in Section A of Annex II to Directive 70/156/EEC;

(b) "front underrun protective device" means a front underrun protective device which is intended to be part of a vehicle and which can be approved as a separate technical unit in accordance with Article 2 of Directive 70/156/EEC.

Article 2

  • 1. 
    With effect...

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