The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) Regulations 1999

means the bodies appointed as the approval authority in a member State other than the United Kingdom in accordance with Directive 97/68/EC.

means the European Parliament and Council Directive 97/68/EC on the approximation of laws of the member States relating to measures against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants from internal combustion engines to be installed in non-road mobile machinery;

means a manufacturer’s grouping of engines which, through their design, are expected to have similar exhaust emission characteristics as specified in Schedule 2 and which comply with the requirements of these Regulations;

means net power output of the engine;

means the date when the engine has passed the final check after it has left the production line and being the stage at which the engine is ready to be delivered or to be put in stock;

means a category of engines which are similar in such essential engine characteristics as specified in Schedule 2, Appendix 1;

means the document in which the contents of the information package, suitably numbered or otherwise marked to clearly identify all the pages, are listed;

means the document set out in the format specified by Schedule 2 containing the information prescribed by that Schedule;

means the total folder or file of data, drawings, photographs and any other material supplied by the applicant to the approval authority or the technical service body as prescribed in the information document;

means the information folder plus any test results or other documents that the approval authority or the technical service body has added to the information folder in the course of carrying out its functions;

includes the following: • industrial drilling rigs and compressors, • construction equipment including wheel loaders, bulldozers, crawler tractors, crawler loaders, truck-type loaders, off-highway trucks and hydraulic excavators, • agricultural equipment and rotary tillers, • forestry equipment, • self propelled agricultural vehicles, • material handling equipment, • fork-lift trucks, • road maintenance equipment (motor graders, road rollers and asphalt finishers), • snow plough equipment, • ground support equipment in airports, • aerial lifts, • mobile cranes.

means the person responsible for the construction of an engine and responsible to the approval authority for all aspects of the type approval process and for ensuring conformity of production.

means any mobile machine, transportable industrial equipment or vehicle with or without body work, not intended for the use of passenger-or goods-transport on the road, in which an internal combustion engine as specified in regulation 3(1) is installed;

means an engine selected from an engine family in such a way that it complies with the requirements set out in paragraphs 6 and 7 of Schedule 1;

means the action of making available on the Community market, for payment or free of charge, a product to which these Regulations apply with a view to distribution or use or both in the Community;

means the approval authority or the person that has been appointed as a testing laboratory to carry out tests or inspections;

means the Consumer Protection Act 1987;

means the procedure whereby the approval authority certifies that an internal combustion engine type or engine family satisfies the relevant technical requirements of these Regulations with regard to the level of emissions of gaseous and particulate pollutants by the engine;