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22/03/2013 – 01/01/2016 Article 3, Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 Scope: Whole act

For the purposes of this Regulation and of the acts listed in Annex I, except as otherwise provided therein, the following definitions shall apply:

‘variant’ means vehicles of the same type which do not differ in at least the following respects: for tractors: body structural concept or type of body work, stage of completion, engine (internal combustion/hybrid/electric/hybrid-electric), operating principle, number and arrangement of cylinders, power difference of no more than 30 % (the highest power being no more than 1,3 times the lowest power), cylinder capacity difference of no more than 20 % (the highest figure being no more than 1,2 times the lowest figure), powered axles (number, position, interconnection), steered axles (number and position), maximum laden mass differing by no more than 10 %, transmission (type), rollover protection structure, braked axles (number); for trailers or interchangeable towed equipment: steering axles (number, position, interconnection), maximum laden mass differing by no more than 10 %, braked axles (number);

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