(a) further inspections or tests are required to verify continued compliance with the requirements upon which the existing EU type-approval has been based; (b) any information on the EU type-approval certificate, except for its attachments, has changed; or (c) new requirements under any regulatory act listed in Annex II become applicable to the approved type of vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit. In the event of an extension, the approval authority shall issue an updated EU approval certificate without delay, which shall be denoted by an extension number that is incremented in accordance with the number of successive extensions already granted. That approval certificate shall clearly state the reason for the extension, the date of reissue and, where relevant, the period of validity. 3. Whenever amended pages of the information package or a consolidated, updated version of the information package are issued, the index to the information package shall be amended accordingly to show the date of the most recent extension or revision, or the date of the most recent consolidation of the updated version. 4. No extension to the type-approval of a type of vehicle shall be required if the new requirements referred to in point (c) of paragraph 2 are, from a technical point of view, irrelevant to that type of vehicle or concern categories of vehicle other than the category to which it belongs. Article 35 Termination of validity 1. Seven years after the latest update of the information package in case of an EU type-approval certificate whole-vehicle for vehicles of categories M1 and N1, and 10 years for vehicles of categories M2, M3, N2, N3 and O, the approval authority
(a) further inspections or tests are required to verify continued compliance with the requirements upon which the existing EU type-approval has been based; (b) any information on the EU type-approval certificate, except for its attachments, has changed; or (c) new requirements under any regulatory act listed in Annex II become applicable to the approved type of vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit. In the event of an extension, the approval authority shall issue an updated EU certificate without delay, which shall be denoted by an extension number that is incremented in accordance with the number of successive extensions already granted. That approval certificate shall clearly state the reason for the extension, the date of reissue and, where relevant, the period of validity. 3. Whenever amended pages of the information package or a consolidated, updated version of the information package are issued, the index to the information package shall be amended accordingly to show the date of the most recent extension or revision, or the date of the most recent consolidation of the updated version. 4. No extension to the type-approval of a type of vehicle shall be required if the new requirements referred to in point (c) of paragraph 2 are, from a technical point of view, irrelevant to that type of vehicle or concern categories of vehicle other than the category to which it belongs. Article 35 Termination of validity 1. Seven years after the latest update of the information package in case of an EU whole-vehicle type-approval certificate for vehicles of categories M1 and N1, and 10 years for vehicles of categories M2, M3, N2, N3 and O, the approval authority approval
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