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certificate or general type approval for the wheel and tyre combi‐
nation.
3.2
COC document (EEC Certificate of Con‐
formity)
Since 1 June, 2004, vehicle manufacturers must apply for an EU
operating permit.
A certificate is produced on the basis of this operating permit - the
COC (Certificate of Conformity).
This document certifies that the vehicle complies with the EU op‐
erating permit (EU type approval) and can be registered in every
EU country without an individual type approval.
The document will be issued for all vehicles that comply with the
EU operating permit.
These vehicles have an EU type plate (black sticker) in the area
of the driver's door, or in the case of older vehicles, in the engine
compartment.
The COC document has the same value as the registration docu‐
ment and therefore the original should not be carried on the
vehicle.
The COC document contains the EU general type approval num‐
ber and detailed technical information on the vehicle such as
emissions classification and all the permitted wheel and tyre com‐
binations.
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3.3
Official type designations
Commercial vehicles licensed for road use in Germany need a
general type approval for the issue of a vehicle title document.
The type approval is issued by the Federal Ministry for Transport
in Flensburg following type inspection. This procedure was per‐
mitted until 31.12.1997 and, in exceptional cases, even after that.
Other member states of the European Union (EU) have different
procedures for issuing a document similar to the German title
document. Until 31.12.1997, each member state was entitled to
issue its own national type approvals according to its own proce‐
dures.
Since 1.1.1998, all commercial vehicles licensed within the Eu‐
ropean Union must have a type approval corresponding to EU
guidelines ⇒ page 6 . Vehicles licensed for road use with sin‐
gle-vehicle approval according to § 21 StVZO in Germany are
excepted.
This means the same guidelines apply to all vehicle manufactur‐
ers. This makes it easier to trade across national borders within
the EU.
3.3.1
Official type approval, sales or trade designation
In the following table, all VW vehicles which already have EU type
approval are listed in the column "EU type".
All VW vehicles which were granted type approval according to
the procedure valid up to 31.12.97 are listed in the column "Gen‐
eral type approval (GTA)"
If entries appear in both columns "General type approval (GTA)"
and "EU type", there exist vehicles of this model which are ap‐
proved according to both the StVZO and the EU guidelines. In this
case, one must first establish what sort of vehicle one has. There
are two possibilities:
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