
Article 1 

1. Following the reporting of the data by manufacturers in accordance with Article 5(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/956, the  Secretary of State  shall verify the quality of the data of a number of heavy-duty vehicles of each manufacturer registered in the reporting period concerned. ...
2. The  Secretary of State  shall select the heavy-duty vehicles referred to in paragraph 1 randomly. The number of selected heavy-duty vehicles shall be between 2 % and 10 % of the number of heavy-duty vehicles of each manufacturer that have been registered in the reporting period concerned.
Article 2 

1. The Secretary of State shall notify the manufacturers concerned of the vehicle identification numbers of the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2).
2. Within one month from receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph 1, manufacturers shall provide to the Secretary of State for each selected heavy-duty vehicle:
(a) the original of the manufacturer’s records file, drawn up in accordance with Part I of Annex IV to Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2400;
(b) a copy of the engine type-approval certificate issued in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 595/2009.
3. Upon request by the Secretary of State, manufacturers shall provide additional information in relation to the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2).
Article 3 

1. The Secretary of State shall, for the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2), crosscheck the cryptographic hash values of the original of the manufacturer’s records file provided in accordance with point (a) of Article 2(2) against the imprint of the corresponding cryptographic hash values provided by the Secretary of State in accordance with their obligation under point (k) of Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/956.In case of any discrepancy in the cryptographic hash values, and where requested by the Secretary of State, manufacturers shall verify the correctness of the data provided to the Secretary of State and inform the Secretary of State of the result of that verification within one month.
2. The Secretary of State shall, for the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2), crosscheck the data reported in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2018/956 against the corresponding data in the original of the manufacturer’s records file drawn up in accordance with Part I of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400.
3. The Secretary of State may, for the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2), crosscheck the engine-related data reported in accordance with entries 75 to 78 of point 2 of Part B of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/956 against the corresponding values in the engine type-approval certificate issued in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 595/2009.
Article 4 

1. The Secretary of State shall either confirm the accuracy of the data verified pursuant to Article 3, or notify the manufacturers of any discrepancies found between the data reported pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2018/956 and the corresponding data in the manufacturer’s records file and the engine type-approval certificate provided in accordance with Article 2(2).
2. Within one month of receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph 1, the manufacturers shall provide the Secretary of State with the corrected data for the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2) and an explanation for the discrepancies mentioned in that notification.
3. Where the Secretary of State finds that the discrepancies are of a systematic nature, the manufacturers shall provide the Secretary of State, within one month of receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph 1, with the corrected data for all the heavy-duty vehicles reported in the reporting period concerned and an explanation for the discrepancies.
4. The manufacturers shall transmit the corrected data referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 via the electronic data transfer to the Secretary of State.
Article 5 

1. Where the Secretary of State is satisfied with the explanation and with the corrected data provided by the manufacturers pursuant to Article 4, it shall include the corrected data in the final dataset to be published in the Central Register for data on heavy-duty vehicles and mark it as corrected.
2. Where the Secretary of State is not satisfied with the explanation or with the corrected data provided by the manufacturers or where the manufacturers do not provide the corrected data within the deadline set out in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 4, the  Secretary of State  shall:
(a) correct the CO2 emissions expressed in g/tkm for the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2), which are affected by the discrepancies, based on the information provided by the manufacturer pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 2;
(b) in the case of discrepancies of a systematic nature, correct the CO2 emissions of all heavy-duty vehicles registered in the reporting period concerned by applying a correction factor.
3. The correction factor referred to in point (b) of paragraph 2 shall be determined on the basis of the discrepancies observed in the CO2 emissions expressed in g/tkm of the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2).
4. The Secretary of State shall include the corrected data in the final dataset to be published in the Central Register for data on heavy-duty vehicles and mark it as corrected.
5. In paragraphs 1 and 4, “the Central Register for data on heavy-duty vehicles” means the Register referred to in Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2018/956.
Article 6 
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 20 July 2020.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN