8.8.87 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 220/1 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 25 June 1987 on roll-over protection structures mounted in front of the driver’s seat on narrow-track wheeled agricultural and forestry tractors (87/402/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3), Whereas Council Directive 74/150/EEC of 4 March 1984 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of wheeled agricultural or forestory tractors (*), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, lays down that the necessary provisions for the implementation of the EEC type-approval procedure in respect of individual tractor parts or characteristics should be specified in special directives; whereas the provisions relating to roll-over protection structures and their attachments to tractors were laid down by Directives 77/536/EEC (°) and 79/622/EEC (%), as last amended by the Act of Accession (1) OJ No C 222,2.9.1985, p. 1. (2) O] No C 190, 20. 7. 1987. 3) O] No C 169, 8.7. 1985, p. 5. 4) O] No L 84, 28. 3. 1974, p. 10. 5) O] No L 220, 29. 8.1977, p. 1. ) ( ( (5) O] No L 179, 17.7 1979, p. 1. of Spain and Portugal; whereas these two Directives cover respectively dynamic and static testing procedures — either of which may be employed by manufacturers for the present — and relate to standard tractors, that is, tractors having a maximum ground clearance of 1 000 mm and a fixed or adjustable track width of one of the driving axles of not less than 1 150 mm and weighing between 1,5 and 4,5 tonnes in the case of tractors covered by the ‘dynamic testing’ directive and not less than 800 kilograms in the case of tractors covered by the ‘static testing’ directive; Whereas the tractors covered by this Directive have a maximum ground clearance of 600 mm, affixed or adjustable minimum track width with one of the axles less than 1 150 mm fitted with tyres of a larger size and a mass greater than 600 but less than 3 000 kilograms; whereas the roll-over protection structures of these tractors, which are used for specific activities, can be made subject to specific requirement or requirements other than those of Directive 77/536/EEC and 79/622/EEC; Whereas the technical requirements with which such ‘narrow track’ tractors must comply pursuant to national laws relate, inter alia, to roll-over protection structures and to their attachment to the tractor; whereas those requirements differ from one Member State to another; whereas it is therefore necessary that all Member States adopt the same requirements either in addition to, or in place of, their existing rules in order, in particular, to allow the EEC type-approval procedure which was the subjet of Directive 74/150/EEC to be introduced in respect of each type of tractor;