Directive 2009/79 - Passenger hand-holds on two-wheel motor vehicles (Codified version)

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Current status

This directive was in effect from August 21, 2009 until December 31, 2015 and should have been implemented in national regulation on December 14, 1994 at the latest.

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Key information

official title

Directive 2009/79/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on passenger hand-holds on two-wheel motor vehicles (Codified version)
 
Legal instrument Directive
Number legal act Directive 2009/79
Original proposal COM(2006)265 EN
CELEX number i 32009L0079

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Key dates

Document 13-07-2009
Publication in Official Journal 01-08-2009; OJ L 201, 1.8.2009,Special edition in Croatian: Chapter 13 Volume 054
Effect 21-08-2009; Entry into force Date pub. +20 See Art 6
01-01-2010; Application See Art 6
End of validity 31-12-2015; Repealed by 32013R0168
Transposition 14-12-1994; At the latest See Art 5

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Legislative text

1.8.2009   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 201/29

 

DIRECTIVE 2009/79/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 13 July 2009

on passenger hand-holds on two-wheel motor vehicles

(Codified version)

(Text with EEA relevance)

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,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (2),

Whereas:

 

(1)

Council Directive 93/32/EEC of 14 June 1993 on passenger hand-holds on two-wheel motor vehicles (3) has been substantially amended (4). In the interests of clarity and rationality the said Directive should be codified.

 

(2)

Directive 93/32/EEC is one of the separate Directives of the EC type-approval system provided for in Council Directive 92/61/EEC of 30 June 1992 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles as replaced by Directive 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 March 2002 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles (5) and lays down technical prescriptions concerning the design and construction of two-wheel motor vehicles as regards their passenger hand-holds. These technical prescriptions concern the approximation of the laws of the Member States to allow for the EC type-approval procedure provided for in Directive 2002/24/EC to be applied in respect of each type of vehicle. Consequently, the provisions laid down in Directive 2002/24/EC relating to vehicle systems, components and separate technical units apply to this Directive.

 

(3)

Since the objective of this Directive, namely the granting of EC component type-approval in respect of passenger hand-holds for a type of two-wheel motor vehicle, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale and 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 in order to achieve that objective.

 

(4)

This Directive should be without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time-limits for transposition into national law and application of the Directives set out in Annex II, Part B,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

This Directive shall apply to passenger hand-holds of all types of two-wheel motor vehicles as referred to in Article 1 of Directive 2002/24/EC.

Article 2

The procedure for the granting of EC component type-approval in respect of passenger hand-holds for a type of two-wheel motor vehicle and the conditions governing the free movement of such vehicles shall be as laid down in Chapters II and III of Directive 2002/24/EC.

Article 3

The amendments necessary to adapt to technical progress the requirements of Annex I shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 18(2) of Directive 2002/24/EC.

Article 4

  • 1. 
    Member States shall not, on grounds relating to passenger hand-holds:
 

refuse, in respect of a type of two-wheel vehicle or a type of passenger hand-hold, to grant EC type-approval,

 

prohibit the registration, sale or entry into service of two-wheel motor vehicles or the sale or entry into service of passenger hand-holds,

if the passenger hand-holds comply with the requirements of this Directive.

  • 2. 
    Member States shall refuse to grant EC type-approval for any type of two-wheel motor...

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Original proposal

 

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