Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/646 of 19 April 2021 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards uniform procedures and technical specifications for the type-approval of motor vehicles with regard to their emergency lane-keeping systems (ELKS) (Text with EEA relevance)

1 The information document, submitted in accordance with Article 24(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858 with the application for type-approval of a type of vehicle with regard to the emergency lane-keeping system, shall consist of the information relevant for that system as contained in Part 1 of Annex I.

2 The type-approval of motor vehicles with regard to emergency lane-keeping systems shall be subject to the technical specifications set out in Part 2 of Annex I.

3 Where motor vehicles with hydraulic power assisted steering are equipped, instead of emergency lane-keeping systems, with lane departure warning systems as defined in Article 3(9) of Regulation (EU) 2019/2144, those lane departure warning systems shall comply with the relevant technical specifications set out in Part 2 of Annex I.

4 The EU type-approval certificate for a type of vehicle with regard to the emergency lane-keeping system, as referred to in Article 28(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858, shall be drawn up in accordance with Part 3 of Annex I.

Procedures for verification of the safety aspects of electronic control systems of the emergency lane-keeping systems by the approval authorities or technical services and for the assessment of the technical documentation provided by the manufacturers are laid down in Annex II.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 6 July 2022.