Article 16 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/35

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Article 16Mass test result of an individual test vehicle#

1.For each individual test vehicle undergoing a mass test, the granting approval authority shall determine the mass test result (mass_ratio) as the ratio of the ‘corrected actual mass of the vehicle’, determined in accordance with Article 15 of this Regulation (mass_{in-service verification}), to the ‘corrected actual mass’ of that vehicle (mass_declared) recorded in entry 1.1.8 of the customer information file in accordance with Section 3, Part II, of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400.

2.In the case of a trailer, for each individual test vehicle undergoing a mass test, the granting approval authority shall determine the mass test result (mass_ratio) as the ratio of the ‘corrected mass in running order of the trailer’, determined in accordance with Article 15 of this Regulation (mass_{in-service verification}), to the ‘corrected mass in running order’ of that trailer (mass_declared) recorded in entry 1.1.10 of the customer information file in accordance with Part II of Annex IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1362.

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air drag test
means a constant speed test with torque measurements performed on a vehicle in service in accordance with Section 3 of Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400;
artificial strategies test
means a dedicated test performed on a vehicle in-service to verify whether artificial strategies are present;
Confidential
means that this information shall be kept as appropriate by the granting approval authority, but not be included in the test report submitted to the Commission.
deviation in the CO2 emission values
means that the CO2 emissions of vehicles determined in an in-service verification carried out under this Regulation, are higher than the emissions determined, for motor vehicles, in accordance with the procedures set out in Regulation (EU) 2017/2400 or, for trailers, in accordance with the procedures set out in Iplementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1362, and recorded in the customer information file, certificates of conformity or individual approval certificates accompanying those motor vehicles or trailers, taking into account the statistical evaluation of the tests in accordance with Annex I.
Exclusion criteria
means that if the condition described is met (reply to the question is ‘yes’), the vehicle cannot be selected for in-service verification tests.
mass test
means a test to determine the ‘corrected actual mass of the vehicle’, as defined in Section 2, point (4), of Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400, or in the case of a trailer, the ‘corrected mass in running order’, as defined in Section 3, Table 1, of Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1362;