BAKGRUNN (fra kommisjonsforordningen)

(1) Regulation (EU) 2019/1242 provides for verification of the CO2 emissions and fuel consumption of heavy-duty vehicles in-service (‘in-service verification’).

 (2) All vehicle manufacturers should be subject to in-service verification, except for those manufacturers placing a limited number of vehicles on the market, in order to avoid excessive testing burden, while not significantly affecting the overall CO2 emissions performance. 

(3) The CO2 emissions and fuel consumption values recorded in the customer information file should be verified using the test procedures set out in Regulation (EU) 2017/2400, but in order to verify the presence of strategies that artificially improve the vehicle's performance in the tests performed or in the calculations made for the purpose of certifying the CO2 emissions and fuel consumption, additional, dedicated tests should also be carried out. 

(4) In order to reduce the possibility of a conflict of interest, the in-service verification tests should be performed by a technical service that was not involved in the tests performed for the purpose of the certification of the CO2 emissions and fuel consumption related properties of components, separate technical units and systems of the vehicles concerned. Air drag tests should be performed at the technical service’s own facility or at an accredited laboratory and not by witness testing at a manufacturer’s facility.

(5) In order to allow the granting approval authority to come to a conclusion for all vehicles concerned, on the basis of the test results for the vehicles sampled, an appropriate statistical evaluation method should be established. 

(6) Manufacturers should ensure that the CO2 emissions and fuel consumption values recorded in the customer information files correspond to the CO2 emissions from, and fuel consumption of, vehicles in-service, to be verified by the granting approval authority. In order for these in-service verification activities to be adequately funded, the granting approval authority should charge proportionate fees to the manufacturers. 

(7) In order to reduce testing burden and costs, where possible and appropriate, the same vehicles or tests should be used for both in-service verification of CO2 emissions and in-service conformity checks of pollutant emissions,