EEC braking standards
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• Braking system standards for motor vehicles, including commercials, are included in a package of directives to member states which the EEC Council of Ministers last week adopted in Brussels as a move towards eliminating technical barriers to trade.
Most of the clauses in the new braking standards text will take effect from January 1 1974. The directive lays down regulations for the construction, fitting and testing of brakes, the method by which response is to be measured and a number of other technical standards.
Dual braking systems are made progressively mandatory for all categories of motor vehicle and particularly rigorous standards will be imposed for commercial vehicles and psv.
Another directive deals with measuring instruments and covers, for example, meters for liquids other than water, while there is also a section devoted to the measuring of weight per unit of grain to establish an acceptable volumetric ratio.
A "units of measure" directive has yet to be discussed by the Council; the eventual aim is to introduce the International System of Units throughout the Community.