Article 7

Directive 2006/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 relating to emissions from air conditioning systems in motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

By 4 July 2007, the Commission shall adopt the measures for the implementation of Article 4 and Article 5, and in particular: the administrative provisions for the EC type-approval of vehicles; and a harmonised leakage detection test for measuring the leakage rate of fluorinated greenhouse gases with a global warming potential higher than 150 from air-conditioning systems. The Commission shall adopt the measures in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 13 of Directive 70/156/EEC. The Commission shall publish these measures in the Official Journal of the European Union. The procedure referred to in paragraph 2 shall apply to the adoption, where appropriate, of: measures needed to ensure the safe functioning and proper servicing of refrigerants in mobile air-conditioning systems; measures relating to the retrofitting of in-use vehicles with air-conditioning systems and the refilling of in-use air-conditioning systems to the extent not covered by Article 6; the adaptation of the method for determining the relevant global warming potential of preparations.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.