
Article 1 
Section III.4.2 of Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 383/2012 is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 27 May 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

Section III.4.2 of Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 383/2012 is replaced by the following:
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III.4.2 
The EU type-approval numbering system shall consist of:


((a)) The letter “e” followed by a distinguishing number for the Member State which has granted the EU type-approval
1for Germany2for France3for Italy4for the Netherlands5for Sweden6for Belgium7for Hungary8for the Czech Republic9for Spain11for the United Kingdom12for Austria13for Luxembourg17for Finland18for Denmark19for Romania20for Poland21for Portugal23for Greece24for Ireland25for Croatia26for Slovenia27for Slovakia29for Estonia32for Latvia34for Bulgaria36for Lithuania49for Cyprus50for Malta.
((b)) The letters DL preceded by a hyphen and followed by the two figures indicating the sequence number assigned to this Regulation or latest major technical amendment to this Regulation. The sequence number for this Regulation is 00.
((c)) A unique identification number of the EU type-approval attributed by the issuing Member State.

Example of the EU type-approval numbering system: e50-DL00 12345

The approval number shall be stored on the microchip in DG 1 for each driving licence carrying such microchip.
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