12.4.1999 Official Journal of the European Communities L9711 I (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 1999/14/EC of 16 March 1999 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 77/538/EEC relating to rear fog lamps for motor vehicles and their trailers (Text with EEA relevance) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN (2) Whereas, in particular, Article 3(4) and COMMUNITIES, Article 4(3) of Directive 70/156/EEC require each separate Directive to have attached to it an information document and also a type-approval certificate based on Annex VI to Directive Having rf;gard to the Treaty establishing the European 70/156/EEC in order that type-approval may be Community, computerised; ~ whereas  the  type-approval certificate provided for in Directive 77/538/EEC should be amended accordingly; Having regard to Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of (3) Whereas the procedures should be simplified in the Member States relating to the type-approval of order to maintain the equivalence envisaged by motor vehicles and their trailers(!), as last amended Article 9(2) of Directive 70/156/EEC between by Directive 98/91/EC of the European Parliament and certain separate Directives and the corresponding of the Council(?), and in particular Article 13(2) regulations of the United Nations’ Economic thereof, Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), when those regulations are amended; whereas, as a first step, the  technical requirements of Directive ) o 77/538/EEC should be replaced by those of Having regard to Council Directive 77/538/EEC of UN-ECE Regulation No 38 by way of 28 June 1977 on the approximation of the laws of the cross-reference; Member States relating to rear fog lamps for motor vehicles and their trailers (3), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and (4) Whereas it is necessary to ensure that the in particular Article 10 thereof, requirements in Council Directive 76/756/EEC (*), as last amended by Commission Directive 97/28/EC(®), and in  Council Directive o ) 76/761/EEC (°), as last amended by Commission (1) Whereas Directive 77/538/EEC is one of the Directive 1999/17/EC (), are complied with; separate Directives of the EC type-approval procedure which has been established by Directive 70/156/EEC;  whereas,  consequently,  the (5) Whereas the measures provided for in this provisions laid down in Directive 70/156/EEC Directive are in accordance with the opinion of relating to vehicle systems, components and the Committee for Adaptation to Technical separate technical wunits apply to Directive Progress established by Directive 70/156/EEC, 77/538/EEC; - (*) OJ L 262, 27.9.1976, p. 1. (1) OJ L 42,23.2.1970, p. 1. () OJL 171, 30.6.1997, p. 1. (3) OJL 11, 16.1.1999, p. 25. (®) OJ L 262,27.9.1976, p. 96. (®) OJ L 220,29.8.1977, p. 60. (7) See page 45 of this Official Journal.