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‘vehicle repair and maintenance information’ means all information required for diagnosis, servicing, inspection, periodic monitoring, repair, re-programming or re-initialising or the remote diagnostic support of the vehicle and which the manufacturers provide for their authorised dealers and repairers, including all subsequent amendments and supplements to such information.

As such your rapporteur’s amendment to raise the maximum mass threshold is meant to address this problem, while also stipulating the need for access for remote diagnostic support on these vehicles, in line with latest technological developments.

(7) In order to achieve Union air quality objectives and to ensure a continuous effort to reduce vehicle emissions, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFUE) should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the detailed rules on the application of Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 to vehicles of categories M1, M2, N1 and N2 with a reference mass exceeding 2 610 kg but with a maximum vehicle mass not exceeding 7 500 kg, the specific procedures, tests and requirements for type approval, the requirements for the implementation of the prohibition on the use of defeat devices that reduce the effectiveness of emission control systems, the measures necessary for the implementa ...[+++]tion of the obligation of a manufacturer to provide unrestricted and standardised access to vehicle repair and maintenance information, including remote diagnostic support, the review of the information on the mass of CO2 emissions in the certificate of conformity with information on total mass of CO2 emissions equivalents, the increase of the limit value of total hydrocarbons emissions for positive ignition vehicles, the amendment of Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 for the purposes of recalibrating the particulate mass based limit values and introducing particle number based limit values that would correlate broadly with the petrol and diesel mass limit values, the adoption of a revised measurement procedure for particulates, including nano-particulates, and a particle number limit value, a limit value for emissions of NO2 and limits for tailpipe emissions at cold temperatures for vehicles approved as complying with the Euro 6 emission limits.

This shall include the definition and updating of technical specifications relating to the way in which OBD and vehicle repair and maintenance information, including remote diagnostic support, shall be provided, with special attention being paid to the specific needs of SMEs.