Denmark: Executive order on technical requirements for vehicles and their equipment and use

 

Denmark has published an Executive order on technical requirements for vehicles and their equipment and use.

It applies to:

• Technical requirements for vehicles and their equipment when vehicles have obtained or are to obtain a national, individual approval. EU type-approved vehicles that have not been modified are thus not covered.
• Corresponding rules for modified vehicles that must be approved, regardless of whether the vehicles were originally EU type-approved or not.

Regulation of the use of vehicles in places where the Danish Traffic Regulation Act applies.

The objective of the executive order is to bring the Danish technical requirements for vehicles and their equipment closer to the corresponding EU-regulation but also respecting the need for some national derogations.

In scope are:

Cars (M1, M2, M3), trucks (N1, N2, N3), motorcycles (2- and 3-wheelers), mopeds, tractors, non-road mobile machinery, trailers (O1, O2, O3, O4) and agricultural vehicles, etc.

The affected vehicle types correspond to those mentioned in EU-regulations 2018/858/EU, 167/2013/EU and 168/2013/EU.

The executive order also contains requirements for vehicle manuals and the placement of symbols.

The full text of the draft is available HERE.

To find out more about vehicle regulations and vehicle compliance in the EU, please contact the Institute for Global Automotive Regulatory Research directly.