Non-road mobile machinery ('U-category vehicles') where it is placed on the market and intended to circulate, whether occasionally or regularly, with or without a driver, on a public road.

DRAFT REGULATION (2025/14/AB) ON TYPE APPROVAL AND MARKET SURVEILLANCE OF NON-ROAD MOBILE MACHINERY CIRCULATING ON PUBLIC ROADS; (18 page(s), in English)

(1) The purpose of this Regulation is to lay down the technical requirements, administrative requirements and procedures for EU type-approval, EU individual approval, and placing on the market of all new non-road mobile machinery intended to circulate on public roads. This Regulation also lays down rules and procedures for the market surveillance of non-road mobile machinery.

(2) This Regulation covers non-road mobile machinery ('U-category vehicles') where it is placed on the market and intended to circulate, whether occasionally or regularly, with or without a driver, on a public road.

(3) This Regulation does not cover

a) Non-road mobile machinery with a maximum design speed exceeding 40 km/h.

b) Non-road mobile machinery with a maximum design speed not exceeding 6 km/h.

c) Non-road mobile machinery equipped with more than three seating positions, including the driver's seating position.

ç) Machinery, as defined in subparagraph (ğ) of the first paragraph of Article 4 of the Machinery Safety Regulation (2006/42/EC) published in the Official Gazette dated 3/3/2009 and numbered 27158, primarily intended for the transport of one or more persons, animals or goods other than instruments or auxiliaries required for the performance of work, materials resulting from or necessary for work or for intermediate storage, or materials transported on construction sites.

d) vehicles, including motor vehicles, tractors, trailers, two-wheel or three-wheel vehicles, quadricycles and interchangeable towed equipment, within the scope of the Regulation on Type Approval and Market Surveillance and Inspection of Agricultural and Forestry Vehicles (EU/167/2013) published in the Official Gazette dated 14/8/2014 and numbered 29088, Regulation on Type Approval and Market Surveillance and Inspection of Two or Three Wheeled Motor Vehicles and Four Wheeled Motorcycles (EU/168/2013) published in the Official Gazette dated 22/8/2015 and numbered 29453 or Motor Vehicles and Trailers and Their Components published in the Official Gazette dated 19/4/2020 and numbered 31104, or Regulation on the Type Approval and Market Surveillance of Motor Vehicles and Their Trailers, and of Systems, Components and Separate Technical Units Intended for Such Vehicles (EU/2018/858).e) non-road mobile machinery that was placed on the market, registered or entered into service before 29/1/2028.