Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1958 of 23 June 2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 of the European Parliament and of the Council by laying down detailed rules concerning the specific test procedures and technical requirements for the type-approval of motor vehicles with regard to their intelligent speed assistance systems and for the type-approval of those systems as separate technical units and amending Annex II to that Regulation (Text with EEA relevance)

The type-approval of a vehicle with regard to the intelligent speed assistance systems shall be subject to the vehicle complying with the test procedures and technical requirements set out in Annex I.

The type-approval of an intelligent speed assistance system as a separate technical unit shall be subject to the system complying with the test procedures and technical requirements set out in Annex I.

The list of road speed limit signs used in each Member State, based upon which the type-approval authorities and technical services shall assess the performance of the intelligent speed assistance systems in accordance with this Regulation, is set out in Annex II.

1 Vehicle manufacturers shall provide the approval authorities granting type-approvals pursuant to this Regulation with the following information: (a) ratios of the time driven or the distances that are travelled with the intelligent speed assistance systems switched on and switched off; (b) ratios of the time driven or the distances that are travelled with the perceived speed limits being observed and being overridden, respectively; (c) the average time elapsed between the switch-on and the switch-off of the intelligent speed assistance system by the driver, when applicable; The information referred to in subparagraph (a), shall be provided separately for the cascaded acoustic warning function, the cascaded vibrating warning function, the haptic feedback function and the speed control function.

2 The approval authorities shall aggregate the information received in accordance with paragraph 1 and provide it to the Commission on 7 July 2024 and at least every 6 months thereafter for a period of two years.

Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 is amended in accordance with Annex III to this Regulation.

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.