With a view to further strengthening the protection of ecological environment and winning the battle against pollution, imported motor vehicles must comply with national environmental standards, to promote energy conservation and emission reduction of imported motor vehicles. Therefore, GACC decided to further standardize the inspection of imported motor vehicles in environmental items in accordance with the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity Inspection and the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution. Announcement below regarding;
1.In accordance with the Limits and Measurement Methods for Emissions from Gasoline Vehicles under Two-speed Idle Conditions and Simple Driving Mode Conditions (GB18285-2018) and Limits and Measurement Methods for Emissions from Diesel Vehicle under Free Acceleration and Lugdown Cycle (GB3847-2018), customs of all levels shall inspect the greenness of imported motor vehicles’ outward appearance, on-board diagnostics, And inspect exhaust pollutant emissions on imported vehicles which are not less than 1% proportion of the same model. Where the model is detected with environmental risk information and hence needs to go through type testing, customs shall implement the type testing against the current environmental standards.
2.Import enterprises shall remove the transport mode or functional lock status that will affect the environmental protection inspection in advance. Where vehicles like all time wheel drive(AWD) and AWD-auto switch wheel drive cannot be manually switched into two-drive mode, and hence the simple driving mode condition, free acceleration and lugdown cycle methods are ineffective, two-speed idle condition or free acceleration methods can be implemented.
3.Import enterprises’primary obligation is to assure the imported motor vehicles subject to national environmental laws and regulations comply with the mandatory requirements of national environmental specifications Importing models shall disclose the environmental information as what is required for motor vehicles and non-road mobile machinery. The motor vehicles listed in the product information catalogue subject to compulsory certification should have undergone the type testing of environmental items and obtained relevant certification. Vehicles of M1, M2 and N1 type with maximum design mass not more than 3500kg shall comply with the regulations on light vehicle fuel consumption labeling management.
4.Where import enterprises are informed that air pollutant emissions from motor vehicles is below the standard due to design, production defects or their failure to meet the requirements of environmental protection and sustainability, and that disclosed environmental information does not match the imported motor vehicles, they should timely report corresponding risk reduction strategies to the GACC in the process of environmental recalls and environmental information disclosure revisions.
This announcement shall take effect from November 1, 2019.
The above is hereby notified.
GACC
October 28, 2019
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