Technical law of motor vehicles production in international level: Harmonized technical regulations and type-approvals

Abstract

Motor vehicles manufacturing requires the respect of manufactures in relation to compulsory rules, the technical regulations, which set the requirements that these products have to observe and/or the different components which define them. Otherwise, vehicles or manufactured components have to pass officials controls which are known as type-approvals. In this way, the Administration proves that vehicles respect the compulsory technical regulations. The great variety of state rules, European rules and international regulations which are crossed over become technical regulations and type-approvals very complex. The aim of this paper treats to study the global technical regulations relating to this issue. Besides, we analyse harmonized technical regulation and these official controls established in an universal level by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and which have given results in the Revised 1958 Agreement and in the Parallel 1998 Agreement.