Euro 7's software subjects entered the EU equivalence table with nothing equivalent

The European Commission published a delegated regulation on September 24 amending Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2018/858, the framework that governs EU vehicle type approval. It was adopted on July 13 and enters into force the day after publication.

Part II of that annex is the table of UN Regulations recognized as equivalent for EU type-approval purposes. A manufacturer holding an approval to a recognized UN Regulation does not have to prove the same ground again in Europe, so an entry in that table is worth real work, and an empty one is worth none.

The regulation inserts rows for the Euro 7 subjects into that table. Only one of them carries a UN Regulation. Against GA2, tailpipe emissions of a vehicle in the laboratory, the act lists UN Regulations Nos 83, 85, 154, 168, 177, 179 and 180, at series of amendments 09, 00, 04, 01, 00, 00 and 00. Every other row is entered with a subject and nothing else.

That includes the three software subjects: GA9 on-board diagnostics, GA12 anti-tampering, security and cybersecurity, and GA18 on-board monitoring together with in-vehicle display of environmental data and the environmental vehicle passport. Each appears in the equivalence table with no UN Regulation recognized against it.

The three subjects themselves are not new. They were written into Part I of the annex, the list of subjects a vehicle is approved against, by a separate delegated regulation published on June 2, which ties each to the Euro 7 regulation and to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1706. What today’s act adds to Part I is four further items covering low-temperature electric range, electrified vehicle system power, in-vehicle battery durability and brake particle emissions, together with a new item G3c making the device that monitors fuel and electric energy consumption on board a heavy vehicle, and determines total vehicle mass, a named approval subject in its own right.