
Article 1 
Annex II of Chapter 5 to Directive 97/24/EC is amended in accordance with the text set out in the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2 

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, before 1 July 2007, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.They shall apply those provisions from 1 July 2007.When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law, which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
Article 3 
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 4 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 18 August 2006.
For the Commission
Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President
ANNEX

Annex II of Chapter 5 to Directive 97/24/EC is amended as follows:

((1)) In point 2.2.1.1 the following paragraph is added:
'At the choice of the manufacturer the test procedure laid down in UN/ECE Global Technical Regulation (GTR) No 2 may be used for motorcycles as an alternative to the test procedure referred to above. In case the procedure laid down in GTR No 2 is used, the vehicle shall respect the emission limits provided in row C of the table in section 2.2.1.1.5 and all the other provisions of this directive except 2.2.1.1.1 to 2.2.1.1.4 of this Annex.'
((2)) In the table of point 2.2.1.1.5, within the section ‘Limit values for motorcycles (two-wheel) for type-approval and conformity of production’, the following row C is inserted after row B:
'
C (2006 — UN/ECE GTR No 2) vmax < 130 km/h 2,62 0,75 0,17
vmax ≥ 130 km/h 2,62 0,33 0,22'
