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Advice on rules and regulations

LEVA-EU help on technical rules and regulations helps businesses avoid expensive mistakes and avoid hold-ups

The challenge: Businesses often have urgent questions about technical aspects or the categorisation and terms of use for a vehicle they have developed.

Type approval legislation consists of more than 1,000 pages of text, most of which relates to ICE mopeds and motorcycles. This makes it difficult for testing services to determine how to apply type approval specifications to speed pedelecs.

What LEVA-EU did: LEVA-EU has assisted manufacturers of speed pedelecs throughout the type approval of their vehicles. We have extensive knowledge of type approval texts and can offer our members accurate help in their dialogue with type approval services.

The most frequently asked question for vehicles excluded from type approval relates to their categorisation. For example, manufacturers of e-cargo bikes need to understand where the vehicle will be allowed to ride in respective member states. Dimensions of the vehicles are important in this framework and LEVA-EU is working on an overview of national requirements.

Questions also concern the implications of certain technological choices for the categorisation of vehicles. Manufacturers may wish to produce an e-bike without pedals or combine pedal assistance with a throttle and need to know the implications of these decisions.

LEVA-EU assists members in disputes with national approval authorities where they have brought  new technologies to the market as e-bikes with pedal assistance, for example, and approval authorities interpret legal texts to decide the vehicle should be type-approved. In these cases, we help the members argue their case and contact the European Commission for consultations if necessary. Using LEVA-EU’s information and advice saves a business time and money, allowing them to focus on what they do best.

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