28.1.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 251 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) No 44/2014 of 21 November 2013 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the vehicle construction and general requirements for the approval of two- or three- wheel vehicles and quadricycles (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 on the approval and market surveillance of two- or three-wheel Commission for Europe concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted to andfor be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions (Revised 1958 Agreement). vehicles and quadricycles ('), and in particular Articles 18(3), (4 Manufacturers apply for type approval for L category 20(2), 21(5), 25(8), 33(6) and 57(12), and Article 65 thereto, vehicles, their systems, components or separate technical units in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 168/2013. In the Union legislation most requirements Whereas: on vehicle parts are taken over from the corresponding UNECE regulations. UNECE regulations are constantly amended in line with technological progress and the (1) The internal market comprises an area without internal respective Union regulations have to be regularly frontiers in which the free movement of goodsy persons, updated accordingly. In order to avoid this duplication, services and capital is ensured. To that end, compre- the CARS 21 High Level Group recommended the hensive EU type_approval and a strengthened market replacement of several Union directives by way of the surveillance system for L-category vehicles and its incorporation and compulsory application of the systems, components and separate technical units, as corresponding UNECE  regulations in Union law, defined by Regulation (EU) No 168/2013, apply. referred to in Annex I (2)  The term ‘L-category vehicles' covers a wide range of light vehicle types with two, three or four wheels, e.g. powered cycles, two- and three-wheel mopeds, two- and (5)  The possibility of applying UNECE regulations by virtue three-wheel motorcycles, motorcycles with side-cars and of Union legislation that provides for the incorporation four-wheel vehicles (quadricycles) such as on-road quads, of those UNECE regulations for the purpose of EU all-terrain vehicles and quadrimobiles. vehicle type-approval is provided for in Regulation (EU) No 168/2013. Under that Regulation, type-approval in accordance with UNECE regulations which apply on a (3) By Council Decision 97/836/EC (%), the Union acceded to compulsory basis is regarded as EU type-approval in the Agreement of the United Nations Economic accordance with that Regulation and its delegated and implementing acts. () O] L 60, 2.3.2013, p. 52. (%) Council Decision 97/836/EC of 27 November 1997 with a view to accession by the European Community to the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, (6) UNECE regulation No 10 on electromagnetic compati- equipment and parts which can be fitted to and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions (Revised 1958 Agreement') (O] L 346, 17.12.1997, p. 78). bility (EMC) should be made obligatory and replace Chapter 8 of Directive 97/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 1997 on