L 291/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 28.10.2002 COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2002/80/EC of 3 October 2002 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 70/220/EEC relating to measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles (Text with EEA relevance) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com- munity, Having regard to Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers ('), as last amended by Commission Directive 2001/ 116/EC (3), and in particular Article 13(2) thereof Having regard to Council Directive 70/220/EEC of 20 March 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles (3), as last amended by Directive 2001/100/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (%) and in particular Article 5 thereof Whereas: (1)  Directive 70/220/EEC is one of the separate directives under the type-approval procedure established by Direc- tive 70/156EEC. (2)  Directive 70/220/EEC introduced a method for checking the conformity of vehicles in-service. The type of data a manufacturer should collect and submit as a basis for examination by the type-approval authority of whether a vehicle is in conformity with the requirements of Directive 70/220/EEC over the requisite durability period should be defined. The definition of a vehicle that could be considered to be an outlying emitter, in the case that a representative sample of vehicles of a type are subject to testing and statistical analysis to confirm emissions performance of the said type, should be completed. (3)  Technical measures for the type-approval, as separate technical units, of replacement catalytic converters to ensure both their emissions performance and, where appropriate, their compatibility with the on-board diag- nostic (OBD) system of the vehicle for which they are designed, should be introduced. Measures to aid enforcement in Member States, through the marking ) ) ’) L 42,23.2.1970, p. 1. L 18,21.1.2002, p. 1. L76,6.4.1970,p. 1. L 16,18.1.2002, p. 32. ) of both replacement catalytic converters and original replacement catalytic converters and their packaging, should be introduced. In addition, a request for additional information to accompany replacement cata- lytic converters that were manufactured and introduced for sale in the Community prior to the introduction of this Directive should also be introduced. Directive 70/220/EEC introduced provisions for OBD systems. To ensure that the development of replacement components which are critical to the correct functioning of the OBD system is not restricted by the unavailability of pertinent OBD-related information, prescriptions requiring the vehicle manufacturer to make available such relevant information to the type-approval authority should be introduced. The technical requirements relating to malfunction indication strategies are clarified such that a malfunction is deemed to occur if the OBD thresholds are exceeded or if the OBD system is unable to fulfil the basic OBD monitoring requirements of this Directive. It is also necessary to introduce specific modifications to the handling of OBD information to deal independently with vehicle operation on petrol or on gas. Due to the short lead-time until 1 January 2003 from which new types of gas-fuelled vehicles should be equipped with an OBD system, it is necessary to allow the type-approval of gas-fuelled vehicles that contain a limited number of minor deficiencies that may arise at, or prior to the time of type-approval. The type-approval authority may also issue an extension to the type- approval certificate for vehicles that have already been type-approved in cases where deficiencies are sub- sequently found within the OBD system on vehicles in- service. Such extensions may not be issued if there is a complete lack of monitoring capability. A period should be specified within which deficiencies authorised by the type-approval authority must be corrected on future manufactured vehicles. Directive 70/220/EEC should be updated to take account of technical progress and in particular the new defi- nitions of the more standard diagnostic fault codes, the more manufacturer-specific diagnostic fault codes, and the new hexadecimal codes as well as ISO standard