International Approval Marks for Lamps
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REGULATIONS covering the use of approved merchandise marks on vehicle headlamps and headlamp bulbs, under specifications set out in an appendix to the Economic Commission for Europe Agreement (1958), were brought into effect in the U.K. on Wednesday. Known as the Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1964, these provide that foreign headlamps and headlamp bulbs with the appropriate authorization marks may lawfully be used in this country without further technical inspection (although in fact U.K. legislation does not at present require specification conformity) and. more important, that any such parts bearing the U.K. approval mark (the symbol Eli in a circle) may without further technical inspection be imported into and used within countries which apply the relevant regulations of the E.C.E. agreement. At present these are: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Yugoslavia.
Any U.K. manufacturer who wishes in obtain authority to put the official approval mark on his products may apply to the Ministry of Transport for details of how and where samples of these products can be type-tested for approval Strict control will be exercised.