Statutory Instruments

2025 No. 794

ROAD TRAFFIC

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The New Heavy-Duty Vehicles (Carbon Dioxide Emission Performance Standards) (Vocational Vehicles) Regulations 2025

Made

2nd July 2025

Laid before Parliament

7th July 2025

Coming into force

29th July 2025

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 2(3) of of 20 June 2019 setting CORegulation (EU) 2019/1242 of the European Parliament and of the Council₂ emission performance standards for new heavy-duty vehicles(1).

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the New Heavy-Duty Vehicles (Carbon Dioxide Emission Performance Standards) (Vocational Vehicles) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 29th July 2025.

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations—

“ Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2400 ” means of 12 December 2017 implementing Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2400 as regards the determination of the CO Regulation (EC) No 595/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council ₂ emissions and fuel consumption of heavy-duty vehicles and amending and Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( Commission Regulation (EU) No 582/2011 2 );

“ heavy-duty vehicle ” means a vehicle to which any of points (a) to (d) of Article 2 (1) of apply; Regulation (EU) 2019/1242

“ manufacturer ” has the meaning given in Article 3 (10) of ( Regulation (EU) 2019/1242 3 );

“ misreported vehicle ” means a heavy-duty vehicle that—

(a)

was certified as a vocational vehicle based on the data reported by the manufacturer in accordance with Article 5 of (Regulation (EU) 2018/9564); and

(b)

was registered as a non-vocational vehicle based on the data reported to the Secretary of State in accordance with Article 4 of ; Regulation (EU) 2018/956

“ non-vocational vehicle ” means a heavy-duty vehicle other than a vocational vehicle;

“ Regulation (EU) 2018/956 ” means on the monitoring and reporting of CO Regulation (EU) 2018/956 of the European Parliament and of the Council ₂ emissions from and fuel consumption of new heavy-duty vehicles( 5 );

“ Regulation (EU) 2019/1242 ” means setting CO Regulation (EU) 2019/1242 of the European Parliament and of the Council ₂ emission performance standards for new heavy-duty vehicles and amending Regulations (EC) No 595/2009 and (EU) 2018/956 of the European Parliament and of the Council and ; Council Directive 96/53/EC

“ vocational vehicle ” has the meaning given in Article 3 (16) of . Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2400

Identification of misreported vehicles

3.—(1) Where a misreported vehicle is identified, the Secretary of State must notify the manufacturer of the vehicle.

(2) Within one month of receiving a notification under paragraph (1), a manufacturer may provide to the Secretary of State information to show that the vehicle was correctly certified as a vocational vehicle.

(3) Where, following receipt of any information under paragraph (2), the Secretary of State considers that a misreported vehicle was incorrectly certified as a vocational vehicle, the Secretary of State must correct the manufacturer’s average specific CO₂ emissions(6) for the reporting period of the relevant year(7) to take that vehicle into account.

Procedure for correcting average specific CO₂ emissions

4.—(1) The Secretary of State may correct a manufacturer’s average specific CO₂ emissions using the correct CO₂ values of a misreported vehicle.

(2) Where the correct CO₂ values of a misreported vehicle are not already available, the Secretary of State may request that a manufacturer determine the correct CO₂ values according to the technical characteristics of that vehicle.

(3) Where a manufacturer determines the correct CO₂ values of a misreported vehicle following a request under paragraph (2), the manufacturer must use the same version of the simulation tool as used for the original determination of the CO₂ values of that vehicle, unless the Secretary of State permits otherwise.

(4) Where a manufacturer fails to determine the correct CO₂ values of a misreported vehicle within two months of receiving a request under paragraph (2), the Secretary of State may correct the manufacturer’s average specific CO₂ emissions using the formula set out in the Schedule.

(5) In this regulation—

“ correct CO ₂ values ” means the CO ₂ emissions and fuel consumption of a misreported vehicle as a non-vocational vehicle, determined using the simulation tool in accordance with ; Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2400

“ simulation tool ” means an electronic tool used to determine CO ₂ emissions and fuel consumption of vehicles as provided for in Article 5 of . Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2400

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Lilian Greenwood

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

2nd July 2025

Regulation 4

Schedule Formula for correcting average specific CO₂ emissions

1. Where regulation 4 (4) applies, the average specific CO₂ emissions of the manufacturer must be corrected as follows for the reporting period of the relevant year:

where—

avgCO2_sg is the average specific CO₂ emissions of the manufacturer defined in Annex I, point 2.2. of ; Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
V_sg is the number of new heavy-duty vehicles of the manufacturer in the vehicle sub-group sg, excluding vocational vehicles, in accordance with Article 4(a) of ; Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Σ_V is the sum over all heavy-duty vehicles of the manufacturer in the vehicle sub-group sg, in accordance with regulation 3 (3);
CO2V_v is the average of the CO₂ emissions in g/tkm of the vocational vehicle v for all different combinations of mission profiles, load conditions and fuel types, reported in accordance with ; Regulation (EU) 2018/956
Voc_sg is the number of heavy-duty vehicles of the manufacturer in the vehicle sub-group sg, in accordance with regulation 3 (3).

2. The corrected average specific CO₂ emissions of the manufacturer (avgCO2_sg)_corr must replace the average specific CO₂ emissions of the manufacturer avgCO2_sg for the purposes of . Regulation (EU) 2019/1242

(1)

EUR 2019/1242. Article 2 was amended by S.I. 2020/1402, 2022/1361 and 2025/367.

(2)

EUR 2017/2400, amended by EUR 2019/318 and S.I. 2022/1273.

(3)

EUR 2019/1242. Article 3(10)was substituted by S.I. 2022/1361.

(4)

EUR 2018/956. Article 5 was substituted by S.I. 2019/846.

(5)

EUR 2018/956, amended by S.I. 2019/846, 2020/1402, 2022/1361 and 2023/1257, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/888 and Regulation (EU) 2019/1242.

(6)

“Average specific CO₂ emissions” is defined in Article 3(4) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1242.

(7)

“Reporting period of the year Y” is defined in Article 3(3) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1242.

in force	Provision is in force
in force*	In force only for specified purposes (see footnote)
not in force	Not in force in England (may be in force in other geographies, see footnotes)
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Defined Term	Section/Article	ID
Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2400	reg. 2.	def_e79732b58a
Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2400	reg. 2.	def_00c6f4fd38
correct CO 2 values	reg. 4.	def_fa6aaeb251
heavy-duty vehicle	reg. 2.	def_040119fc94
manufacturer	reg. 2.	def_06b73a590a
misreported vehicle	reg. 2.	def_e01c24daa6
non-vocational vehicle	reg. 2.	def_c95ee48524
Regulation (EU) 2018/956	reg. 2.	def_5ceda9449b
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242	reg. 2.	def_9ffcf659cf
simulation tool	reg. 4.	def_67ac75cc53
vocational vehicle	reg. 2.	def_5d3501b82f