10. 3. 89 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 67/1 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 21 December 1988 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to certain components and characteristics of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors (89/173/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100a thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (!),. In cooperation with the European Parliament (2), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3), Whereas it is important to adopt measures with the aim of progressively establishing the internal market over a period expiring on 31 December 1992; whereas the internal market shall comprise an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods; persons, services and capital is ensured; Whereas the technical requirements which tractors must fulfil in pursuance of national laws concern, inter alia, their dimensions and masses, speed governors, the protection of their drive components, .projections and wheels, brake . control for towed vehicles, windscreens and other glazing, the mechanical coupling between tractor and towed vehicle - and the location and method of affixing statutory plates and - markings to the body of the tractor; . - Whereas those requirements differ from one Member State to another; whereas it is consequently necessary for the same (1) OJ No C 218, 17. 8. 1987, p. 1. (2) OJ No C 281, 19. 10. 1987, p. 180 and OJ No C 326, 18. 12. 1988. (3) OJ No C 319, 30. 11. 1987, p. 25. requirements to be adopted by all of the Member States, either in addition or in place of the existing regulations, in order, in particular, to permit implementation, for each type of tractor, of the EEC type-approval procedure covered by Council Directive 74/150/EEC of 4 March 1974 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval .of wheeled -agricultural or forestry tractors (*), as last amended by Directive 82/890/EEC (*); ‘ Whereas with regard, in particular, to the technical requirements relating to safety glass — windscreens and other glazing — it is appropriate to embrace with some amendments those adopted by the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Europe in its Regulation No 43 (‘Uniform provisions concerning- the approval of safety glazing and glazing materials’) forming an addendum to the agreement of 20 March 1958 concerning the adoption of- uniform conditions of approval and : thus - reciprocal recognition ef approval for motor vehicle equipment and parts (6);- : - HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: Article 1 1.  (Agricultural or forestry) tractor means any motor vehicle fitted with wheels or endless tracks and having at least two axles, the main function of which lies in its tractive power-and which is specially designed.to, push, carry or.. () OJ No-L 84, 28. 3. 1974, p. 10. (*) OJ No L 378, 31. 12. 1982, p. 45. (¢) Doc. {ggg’é%ﬁh}s , 505} REV 1/ADD 42/REV/1.