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2.4. "Information document" means the document set out in Annex 5 that
prescribes the information to be supplied by an applicant. This may be in the
form of an electronic file.
2.5. "Information folder" means a folder that includes the information document,
data, drawings, photographs, and other relevant material, supplied by the
applicant. This may be in the form of an electronic file.
2.6. "Information package" means the information folder accompanied by the test
reports and all other documents added by the Technical Service or by the
approval authority to the information document in the course of carrying out
their functions, including an index to the information package. This may be
in the form of an electronic file.
2.7. "Index to the information package" means the document listing the contents
of the information package, suitably numbered or otherwise marked so as to
identify clearly all the pages. The format of the document shall be such as to
present a record of the successive steps in administering the type approval, in
particular when any revisions or updates occurred.
2.8. "Technical competence" means, having regard to Article 2 of the 1958
Agreement, that a Contracting Party has the capability to verify the
compliance of an IWVTA type with this Regulation, based on the individual
type approvals submitted by the manufacturer in its application and the
ability to confirm that the vehicle systems and components are installed
pursuant to the individual UN Regulations listed in Annex 4. This means that
a Contracting Party applying this Regulation need not necessarily have the
technical competence required to issue type approvals with respect to all the
UN Regulations listed in Annex 4.
2.9. "Declaration of Conformance (DoC)" means the information for a single
vehicle belonging to an IWVTA type, approved in accordance with this
Regulation, certifying to which of the UN Regulations listed in Annex 4 and
to which versions the IWVTA type is approved at the time of its production.
2.10. "Component" means a vehicle equipment or part which is subject to the
requirements of any of the UN Regulations listed in Annex 4 and intended to
be part of a vehicle, which may be type-approved independently of a vehicle
where the UN Regulation makes explicit provisions for so doing.
2.11. "Vehicle system" means an assembly of devices combined to perform one or
more specific functions in a vehicle and which is subject to the requirements
of any of the UN Regulations listed in Annex 4.
2.12. "Type approval certificate" means the document whereby the approval
authority officially certifies that a type of vehicle, equipment or parts is
approved or such approval is modified.
3. Application for approval
3.1. The application for approval of an IWVTA type with regard to IWVTA shall
be submitted by the manufacturer to the approval authority of the Contracting
Party according to the provisions of Schedule 3 of the 1958 Agreement.
3.2. It shall be accompanied by the following documentation:
3.2.1. The information folder containing the information required under Annex 5;
