20. 4. 89 Official Journal of the European Communities No L. 109/25 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DIRECTIVE of 28 March 1989 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 76/759/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member: States relating to direction:indicator lamps for motor vehicles and their trailers (89/277/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type approval —of motor vehicles and their trailers (*), as last amended by Directive 87/403/EEC (3, and in particular Article 11 thereof, Having regard to Council Directive 76/759/EEC of 27 July 1976 on the approximation of the -laws of the Member States- relating to direction indicator lamps for motor vehicles and their trailers (%), as last amended by Directive 87/354/EEC (%), and in particular Article 10 thereof, Whereas, in the light of experience and in view of the current state of the art, it is now possible to make certain requirements more complete and better adapted to actual traffic ‘conditions - thus improving- the: safety offered to vehicle occupants and -other- road users ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Adaptation to Technical Progress of Directives on the Removal of Technical Barriers to Trade in- the Motor Vehicles Sector; () OJ No L 42, 23. 2. 1970, p. 1. () O] No L 220, 8. 8. 1987, p. 44. () OJ No L 262, 27. 9. 1976, p. 71. (9 OJ No L 192, 11. 7. 1987, p. 43. HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: Article 1 The Annexes to Directive 76/759/EEC are hereby amended in accordance with the Annex to tbis Directive. Article 2 1. With effect from 31 March 1989, no Member State - may : (a) — refuse, in respect of a-type of vehicle, to grant EEC type approval, to issue the document referred to in the last indent of Article 10 (1) of Directive 70/156/EEC, or.to grant national type approval, or — prohibit the entry into service of vehicles, on grounds relating to the direction indicator lamps if the latter comply with the provisions of this Directive ; (b) — refuse to grant EEC component type approval or national component type approval in respect of - the said direction indicator lamps if they comply with the provisions- of this -Directive, or — prohibit the placing on the market of direction - indicator lamps if the latter bear the EEC component type-approval mark = issued in pursuance of the provisions of this Directive. 2.  With effect from 1 October 1991, Member States : (a) — shall no-longer issue the document referred to in the last indent of Article 10 (1) of Directive 70/156/EEC in respect of-a type of vehicle in which the direction indicator lamps do not comply with the provisions of this Directive,