This Regulation lays down the technical prescriptions necessary to carry out the tests and requirements specified in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 78/2009.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 631/2009 of 22 July 2009 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 78/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the type-approval of motor vehicles with regard to the protection of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users, amending Directive 2007/46/EC and repealing Directives 2003/102/EC and 2005/66/EC
Commission Regulation (EC) No 631/2009 of 22 July 2009 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 78/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the type-approval of motor vehicles with regard to the protection of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users, amending Directive 2007/46/EC and repealing Directives 2003/102/EC and 2005/66/EC
Article 1
Article 2
The tests set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 78/2009 shall be carried out in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 3
Where, in the case of the tests for type-approval of a vehicle with regard of it being fitted with a frontal protection system or for a type-approval of such systems as a separate technical unit, the frontal protection system to be tested has been designed for use on more than one vehicle type, that system shall be type-approved separately for every vehicle type for which it is intended.
However, the technical service shall have the discretion to waive additional tests where the intended vehicle types or the frontal protection system types are considered to be sufficiently similar.
Article 4
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.