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More bovine excrement from Brussels
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Sounds more like bovine excrement from the website quoted to me. Alarmist, jingoistic and almost certainly incorrect.0
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After a bit (a lot) of looking through the links, the main changes appear to be
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0382(51):FIN:EN:PDF
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This document is about the roadside inspection of commercial vehicles for roadworthiness."You should know not to believe everything in media & polls by now !"
John539 2-12-14 Post 150300 -
I can live with it, and wouldn't disagree with it.
(As you say, a bit more work required to drag it all into the "mot" for private cars required yet as well, but that's what the proposal it intending to do,- put that in place for private vehicles as well as commercial, and move it from the roadside to a compulsory test.)
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/doc/roadworthiness-package/com%282012%29380.pdf
A bit of decent reporting required by the website as Jase says, I think0 -
Wonder how this will affect my car. The type approval number on the logbook is "Exempt, over 10 years". It's currently 19 years old.
Are they also seriously going to expect MOT testers to know what is and isn't standard on every car out there?0 -
Wonder how this will affect my car. The type approval number on the logbook is "Exempt, over 10 years". It's currently 19 years old.
Are they also seriously going to expect MOT testers to know what is and isn't standard on every car out there?
From the links, it goes with forcing manufacturers to release data on the car build, so seem to apply to newer models, where the dpf has been removed for example, or the subaru that's been modified after production.
It's doesn't appear to state how it's done, so maybe back to a dealer to say yes or no, and read the map at the same time.0 -
Oh well if it's down to dealers or Nissan UK then I'm pretty much in the clear, none of the dealers have a clue about my car and Nissan UK aren't interested either!0
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LincolnshireYokel wrote: »Yep, more bloody EU interference in our lives. The sooner we dump this load of thieves and petty money wasting bureaucrats, and get control of our own country back the batter.
Why would you want to control your own country - some kind of power fixation? Anyway, we've been the EU for 40 years and none of these made-up scare stories have ever materialised before.Can I help?0 -
Why would you want to control your own country - some kind of power fixation? Anyway, we've been the EU for 40 years and none of these made-up scare stories have ever materialised before.
Have you been asleep the last 40 years and missed how the EU has changed our lives? If you want a good example take a look at the effect of the third licence directive that comes into effect in January 2013 and how that will affect getting a motorcycle licence as just one example. Or how EU member states are told they have to set a minimum level of sales tax by the EU."You should know not to believe everything in media & polls by now !"
John539 2-12-14 Post 150300 -
Why would you want to control your own country - some kind of power fixation? Anyway, we've been the EU for 40 years and none of these made-up scare stories have ever materialised before.
In answer to part 1: Then why would anyone else want to control the country?
As for the second, you mean like the 'scare stories' of the Common Agricultural Policy that makes our food so expensive, or the Common Fisheries Policy, which has almost destroyed UK fishing?
Motoring legislation emanating from the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels has already wished on us trucks several times larger than country roads and villages can safely accommodate and poorly qualified truck drivers from countries with questionable standards.
Any legislation coming from the EU deserves the closest scrutiny and the deepest scepticism.0 -
Wouldn't this destroy an entire industry? What about the massive job loses?
What about the small British engineering firms that couldn't survive without making uprated parts for car enthusiasts?
There are literally hundreds of them up and down the country, they make the odd part for the MOD here and there, but what keeps them going is the side business of making custom/uprated car parts.....“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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