2013/456/EU: Council Decision of 22 July 2013 amending Decision 97/836/EC 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, 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’ )

‘2 Pursuant to Article 1(6) of the Revised Agreement, the Union may, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 218(9) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), decide to cease to apply a UN/ECE Regulation that it has previously accepted.

3 Pursuant to Article 1(7) of the Revised Agreement, the Union may, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 218(9) TFEU, decide to apply one, some or all of the UN/ECE Regulations to which it has not acceded at the time of its accession to the Revised Agreement.’.

‘2 The Union shall vote in favour of adopting any draft UN/ECE Regulation or a draft amendment to a UN/ECE Regulation where the draft has been approved in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 218(9) TFEU.’;

1 The proposed amendments to the Revised Agreement submitted to the Contracting Parties on behalf of the Union shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 218(6)(a) TFEU.

2 The decision whether or not to raise an objection to a proposed amendment to the Revised Agreement put forward by another Contracting Party shall be taken in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 218(6)(a) TFEU. Where that procedure has not been completed a week before expiry of the deadline provided for in Article 13(2) of the Revised Agreement, the Union shall state an objection to the amendment before that deadline expires.’.

This Decision shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.