Multiple labels are allowed and should be located such that mounting brackets do not obscure them.

11.8. Information on the setting of towing brackets or mounting plates (²):

Motor vehicles - mechanical coupling devices The Council adopted the common position on the Directive relating to the mechanical coupling devices of motor vehicles and their trailers and their attachment to those vehicles.

Whereas the maximum permissible limits for carbon monoxide and unburnt hydrocarbons emitted by sparkignition engines fitted to motor vehicles were laid down in Directive 70/220/EEC ; whereas these limits were initially reduced by Council Directive 74/290/EEC of 28 May 1974 (3), and permissible limits for nitrogen oxide emissions were added by Commission Directive 77/102/EEC of 30 November 1976 (4);

The main features of this Directive are (see Press Release 10642/93 Presse 216): - setting the limit values on pollutant emissions for private cars with petrol or diesel engines which will be compulsory for new type- approvals from 1 January 1996 and for all newly registered vehicles from 1 January 1997; - the conditions subject to which Member States may grant tax incentives for new vehicles offered for sale on their territories; - the guidelines which the Commission is to take into account when drawing up the measures it is to submit to the Council, before 31 December 1994, for the period starting from the year 2000.

The main features of the common position, which will be adopted formally at a forthcoming Council meeting, are: - setting limit values on pollutant emissions for private cars with petrol or diesel engines, these will be compulsory for new type approvals from 1 January 1996 and for all newly registered vehicles from 1 January 1997.