Chapter II Motor vehicle safety type approval
Article 5
The qualification of applicants for applying the vehicle safety type approval are as below：
1. For the locally made complete vehicles, the applicant shall be the manufacturer；if manufacturer ‘s complete vehicle is made by a contract manufacturer, it shall be examined and approved by the certification institution before the manufacturer or contract manufacturer can apply for the approval.
2. For the imported whole vehicles, the applicant shall be the importer.
3. For the vehicles with the locally made chassis and the bodies made by other body makers, the applicant shall be the chassis manufacturer or body constructors.
4. For the vehicles composed of imported chassis and the locally made bodies, the applicant shall be the chassis importer or body constructors.
5. For the vehicles composed of locally made bodies and imported chassis by body makers, the applicant shall be the body constructors.
6. Domestic vehicle manufacturer or body maker who use other brand’s completed vehicles or chassis vehicles for transform or alter, it must be vehicle manufacturer or body constructors.
7. For the whole vehicles imported by authorities, organizations、schools or individuals for self-use only, the applicant shall be the authorities, organizations, schools or individuals.
8. For the vehicle with chassis imported by authorities, organizations, schools or individuals and body made by local body constructors for self-use only, the applicants shall be the import authorities, organization, schools, individuals or the body constructors.
Article 6
When applying for vehicle safety type approval, the applicants shall provide the following documents and make application toward the certification institution. The documents of the application shall contain stampings of the applicants and duty persons on them or the electronically certified method which can assure the applicant identification:
1. The copy of applicant qualification documents.
(1) Domestic vehicle manufacturer shall provide the company registration or commercial registration documents and factory registration documents；for the contract manufacturer, the authorization documents shall also be provided.
(2) The vehicles body constructors shall provide the factory registration or commercial registration documents.
(3) The importer shall provide the company registration or commercial registration documents.
(4) For the authorized importer vehicle or chassis, authorization documents shall also be provided.
(5) The vehicle imported for self-use by authorities, organizations, schools or individuals shall provide the formal proving documents.
(6) For the tank truck made or constructed by domestic vehicle manufacturer or body constructor, the following documents shall also be provided：
A. For high-pressure tank truck, the valid “Qualification Certificate of Type Inspection for Manufacturing Equipment” (High-pressure vessels mounted on vehicles) shall be provided.
B. For atmospheric liquid tank truck, the valid certificate of inspection qualification for atmospheric liquid tank shall be provided.
2. The specifications and technical information:
(1) Basic data sheet.
(2) Specifications information of each vehicle type.
(3) The complete vehicle photographs of each vehicles type with dimensions specified.
(4) Illustrating documents of location and method of approval mark specified in Article 16.
(5) For gravel and sand truck, concrete mixer truck and tank truck, shall provide the calculation instruction documents of loading volume dimension of each vehicle type.
(6) For Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) fuel system vehicles, shall provide proving documents specified in attachment 10 of Road Traffic Safety Regulations.
(7) For large passenger vehicles, child-only vehicles and school buses, shall provide allocation drawings of seats.
(8) For large passenger vehicle manufactured by local body constructors, the applicant shall provide documents as below:
A. The construction manual of body on chassis.
B. The body construction self check list, the illustrations of superstructure design and body construction, the illustrations shall include six views of vehicle body, five views of chassis, frame information specification, the drawing or photograph of truss weights and locations.
C. The body construction self-check list for each vehicle type of class I and class II large passenger vehicles signed by people with level B welding technical certificate or others welding technician approved by certification institution.
D. The calculation document of strength of superstructure.
(9) For class I and class II large passenger vehicle manufactured by local body constructors and imported by importer, additional documents shall provide as below:
A. The verification documents of durability test.
B. The body construction self-check list for each vehicle type signed by people with level B welding technical certificate or other welding technician approved by certification institution. However, if the assembly line is automated to certain extent and approved by certification institution, then this check list may be exempted.
C. The main component list of each vehicle type.
3. Examination report acquired for each vehicle type and testing item according to Article 14. The applicants can be different from the owners of the examination reports except for vehicles specification requirements in Vehicle Safety Testing Directions. If the applicants of vehicle safety type approval are different from the owners of the examination report, the applicants shall provide authorization document from the owners of examination report.
If the complete vehicles or chassis of other makes are altered by domestic vehicle manufacturers or body constructors, and considered there is safety concern by the certification institution through MOTC, the applicants shall provide authorization document from the manufacturers of completed vehicle or chassis vehicle.
Article 6-1
For vehicle manufacturers and body constructors applying for vehicle safety type approval for the first time, the applicants shall provide the following documents and their plant shall be assessed and approved by certification institution:
1. Legal plant document and scale of plant document.
2. The COP control plan.
3. The verification documents of durability test. Electric motorcycle manufacturers shall also provide the documents of vehicle handling stability test and the document which shows the difference between the vehicle type and electric power-auxiliary bicycle or electric bicycle.
4. For applicants authorized by manufacturers to assemble or manufacture vehicles, authorization documents from manufacturers shall be provided.
5. For applicants not authorized by manufacturers to assemble or manufacture vehicles, the design and development technical documents about the performance of powertrain and braking, and analysis of vehicle structure shall be provided. For large passenger vehicle manufacturers, research and development technical capability documents shall be provided.
Article 7
When there is one of following conditions, the applicants shall apply for low volume vehicle safety type approval instead:
1. Applicants (vehicle importers, authorities, organizations, schools or individuals) who can not obtain the authorization documents by foreign original vehicle or chassis manufacturers specified in Item 4 of Subparagraph 1, Paragraph 1, Article 6.
2. Those who cannot provide the examination report according to Subparagraph 3 of Paragraph 1, Article 6.
3. Vehicles have been used but not scrapped from abroad.
4. Vehicles have been used in the terminals of non-highway scopes.
5. The vehicles of new vehicle chassis assembled with used body or used additional equipments.
When applying for vehicle safety type approval, if the examined vehicles are of the same vehicle type and specifications and the amount of examined vehicles are not over 20, it may apply for low volume safety type approval.
When applying for the low volume safety approval, the vehicles shall be of the same type and specifications shall be identical. The vehicle amount of each case shall be not over 20. But for the conditions of Subparagraph 3 to 5 of Paragraph 1, Article 7, applicants shall vehicle-by-vehicle apply for the low volume type safety approval.
For the vehicles of Subparagraph 3 of Paragraph 1, Article 7, except the vehicles imported by authorities, organizations, schools or individuals for self-use only, the vehicles shall be those who have already obtained all the examination report or inspection and testing report.
Article 8
When applying for the low volume safety approval, the applicant needs to provide following documents toward certification institution:
1. The documents stipulated in Subparagraph 1 and 2 of Paragraph 1, Article 6.
2. The documents of vehicle’s certificate of origin and engine numbers or vehicle body numbers.
3. The examination report or safety inspect and testing report of each testing items according to Article 14. Except for examination reports or test reports for the vehicles specification items in Vehicle Safety Testing Directions, the applicants may be different from the owners of examination reports or test reports. If the applicant is different from the owner of the examination or test report, applicants shall provide authorization and agreement document from the report owner.
If approval vehicles which have been used but not scrapped from abroad, applicants shall provide following original documents of each vehicle, document will be returned after examination:
1. The foreign vehicle license or other vehicles proving documents. If the on-board date is after 2007/7/1, applicants provide proving documents which specify the date of origin of vehicle.
2. The Custom import and commodity tax payment (Exemption) certificate（for vehicles use）, if the documents from Custom or Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph 2, Article 8 shows the vehicle was damaged, defect or insurance or accident repaired, the applicant shall provide following additional documents:
(1) Import certificate (including declared list form of imported sedans).
(2) If the vehicles have damages or defects, after the certification institution report to MOTC and considers there is safety concern, the applicants shall provide the repair documents from the authorized importer or its designated vehicle maintenance workshops or distributors.
(3) For insurance or accident recycled vehicles, the applicant shall provide the repair documents from the vehicle manufacturers or authorized importers.
(4)For the imported vehicles with buy back records of insurance, accident or safety recalls, if the on-board date of is 2010/1/1 or after, the applicant shall additionally provide the following documents:
A.The repair documents issued by the original manufacturers or their importers which were verified by the foreign governments or their notary organization and our foreign embassies, consulates and agencies.
B.The repair documents in Item 2 of Subparagraph 2 issued by the designated maintenance workshops or distributors shall be attested under the Notary Act by the importer.
C.The documents, that the vehicle purchasers have full understanding that the vehicles are recycled because of insurance, accident or safety defects.
The import tax and commodity tax (Exemption) certificate（for vehicles only use）specified in the previous item may be substituted by electronic import and commodity tax payment (Exemption) certificate from tariff authority.
Article 9
After accepting the application of vehicle safety type approval; the certification institution shall process the examination and ratification of vehicle specification according to the vehicle family regarding principles, vehicle type and specification variation, conformance with Vehicles Safety Testing Directions and relevant vehicle safety factors etc. After type approval passed and specification ratified, certification institution shall provide the vehicle safety type approval reports to the MOTC to issue the Vehicle Safety Type Approval Certificate.
Article 10
After accepting the application of low volume vehicle safety type approval; the certification institution shall randomly select one vehicle to process examination and ratification of specification according to conformance with Vehicles Safety Testing Directions and relevant vehicle safety factors etc and send its representative to make an on-site surveillance check for vehicle quantity and specification. After type approval passed and specification ratified, certification institution shall provide the low volume vehicle safety type approval reports to the MOTC to issue the Low Volume Vehicle Safety Type Approval Certificate.
Article 11
The valid duration of Vehicle Safety Type Approval Certificate and Low Volume Vehicle Safety Type Approval Certificate is two years after the certifying date, the vehicle shall comply with all the inspection and testing items in Vehicle Safety Testing Directions that have been promulgated and implemented before the certifying date. If the whole vehicle inspection and testing items cannot comply with the items in Vehicles Safety Testing Directions being promulgated but not implemented yet, then the current valid duration can not be over the implementation date of the item specified therein.
The Certificate Document specified in Paragraph 1 of Article 11 includes the Certificate and vehicle type of specifications information. The formats of Vehicle Safety Type Approval and Low Volume Vehicle Safety Type Approval Certificate are in attachment 1 and 2.
Article 12
Before the expiring date of the above-mentioned Type Approval Certificate, the original applicant could make Type Approval Certificate renewal toward the certification institution. After the expiration date, the Type Approval Certificate shall be void and no inspection registration and for new license plate will be allowed.
When the Type Approval Certificate expires and void as specified in Paragraph 1 of Article 12, the original applicant can apply for the re-examination toward the certification institution. If the vehicle types specified in the expired Type Approval Certificate comply with all the implemented standards in the Vehicles Safety Testing Directions, testing may be waived.
For the vehicles which have acquired the Type Approval Certificates but do not comply with newly amended or revised regulations in Vehicles Safety Testing Directions, the applicants shall make application to renew their Type Approval Certificates toward certification institution. Before re-examination and acquiring new Type Approval Certificates, no inspection registration and for new license plate will be allowed.
For the renewal of Type Approval Certificate, the certification institution shall conduct the examination according to the already implemented standards in Vehicles Safety Testing Directions and if the requirements are all met, then certification institution send the certification reports to MOTC to renew the Vehicle Safety Type Approval Certificate.
If the Type Approval Certificate is lost or damaged, the original applicant shall prepare relevant documents toward certification institution to apply for reissue.
Article 12-1
For vehicles manufactured, constructed or imported but haven’t applied for registration, inspection and get the new license plate before the expiring date of the Type Approval Certificate which was acquired according to Paragraph 1 of Article 11 of this Regulations, except other regulations promulgated by the MOTC, the applicant for these vehicles may inventoried the vehicles and apply to extend valid duration of Type Approval Certificate toward certification institution within 1 month after the expiring date to apply for registration, inspection and get the new license plate.
Except other regulations promulgated by the MOTC, when the applicant constructs completed vehicles with the inventoried chassis specified in Paragraph 3 of Article 17, if they using the same type of chassis and their Type Approval Certificate will be expired, the applicant may apply to extend valid duration of Type Approval Certificate toward certification institution to apply for registration, inspection and get the new license plate. This provision also applies to vehicles which were completed after the adoption of new Testing Regulations.
The compliances of Vehicle Safety Testing Directions shall be specified on the Type Approval Certificate with valid extension duration according to the above two Paragraphs and the new registration document and user's manual of related vehicles.
Vehicles which have applied for being inventoried according to first and second paragraph of this article before amendment of this article promulgated by the MOTC on 2022/12/30,its valid duration of Type Approval Certificate are applicable to amended paragraph of this article.
Article 13
If apply to extend the vehicle type, altering of vehicle original specifications and structure or the original documents need to be changed, the applicant shall provide relevant information and drawings of extension or alteration for application toward the certification institution according to Article 6 and 8.
After the certification institution has completed the examination for extended vehicle type or altered of its original vehicle type specifications and structure and the requirements are met, it shall provide the vehicle safety type approval report to the MOTC for renewal of Vehicle Safety Type Approval Certificate.
Before 2011/12/31, for the completed vehicles constructed by domestic body constructers and apply for new type approval or vehicle family extension according to Article 6 and Paragraph 1 of Article 13, the photographs of complete vehicles specified in Article 6 may be substituted by dimension diagrams.
For the extended vehicle type of already type-approved vehicle family, if apply for vehicle-by-vehicle low volume safety type approval with practical complete vehicle, the on-site checking of Article 10 may be substituted by completed vehicle photos.
Article 14
When applying for examination report specified in Article 6 and 8, the applicants shall be the manufacturers, authorized importers and body constructers of complete vehicle, its devices and chassis. For domestic vehicle devices manufacturers applying for examination reports for the first time, the applicants shall additionally provide legal plant document, scale of plant document and the COP control plan, and their plants shall be assessed and approved by certification institution.
The applicants specified in Paragraph 1 of Article 14 may provide the following documents toward certification institution for application for examination reports. The applying documents shall have the seals the applicant and the duty-person on them or be of other electronically certified method. After the examination of applicable types, scopes and the effectiveness of the documents according to all requirements of Vehicles Safety Testing Directions and Scope of vehicle category table (as attached) are met, certification institution shall issue the examination report.
1. The copy of following applicant’s qualification documents:
(1) For domestic manufacturers of completed vehicle, its devices and chassis, company registration or commercial registration documents and factory registration documents shall be provided.
(2) For domestic body constructers, factory registration or commercial registration documents shall be provided.
(3) For the foreign manufacturers and body constructers of completed vehicle, its devices and chassis, the registration documents of the applicants shall be provided.
(4) For the authorized importers of completed vehicle, its devices and chassis, company registration or commercial registration documents and authorized documents shall provided.
2. The specification and technical documents:
(1) Basic Data Sheet.
(2) Indication of Functions and Specifications/Drawings.
(3) The safety test report, the certification document from BSMI (Bureau of Standards Metrology and Inspection) or others technical documents approved by certification institution. If the applicant is different from the owner of the documents, additional authorized documents from the document owner shall be provided.
(4) The sample, the location and labeling methods of approval label according to Article 16.
(5) For the coupling devices of small trailers, shall provide coupling rack and equipment of label instructions and the label instruction’s content shall include the manufacturer, type and declared load.
3. The COP control plan for the test items. The content shall include the method of quality control, allocation of personnel, testing equipment maintenance and calibration, the sampling rate testing, method of recording and the correction method for non-conformity.
If the volume of the vehicle devices of tachograph, the small trailer’s coupling devices, luggage racks for small vehicles, payload indicator and retro-reflective material imported by the same authorities, organizations、schools or individuals is no more than 3 pieces and for self use in that year, the applicants may provide following documents to apply for examination reports for self use toward certification institution.
1. The documents stipulated in above-mentioned in Item 1 and 2 of Subparagraph 2, Paragraph 2, Article 14.
2. The authorities, organizations, schools or individuals registration documents or identification document and the Custom import and commodity tax payment (Exemption) certificate for the vehicle devices.
3. The declaration document for self-use only, not to sell or transfer of the vehicle devices.
Article 15
The content of the examination report shall include the number of report, test item and its applicable regulation, applicable types and scopes.
If the content of examination report changes, the applicant shall provide relevant documents and pictures toward certification institution according to the previous article. The certification institution shall renew the examination report after the requirements are met.
For the examination acquired according to Paragraph 3 of Article 14, no extension or alteration of the reports shall be allowed.
If the examination report is lost or damaged, the original applicant shall prepare relevant documents toward certification institution for reissue.
Article 16
For the following vehicle devices that have acquired the examination report, approval labels which have been approved shall be marked on each device:
1. Tachograph.
2. Coupling device of small trailer (including towing bracket and coupling component).
3. Luggage racks on small motor vehicle.
4. Payload indicator.
5. Retro-reflective material.
6. Safety belt
The safety belt, regulated in Subparagraph 6 of Paragraph 1 which was installed in motor vehicle, may be waived from the marking requirement of Paragraph 1 before 2014/1/1.
The marking specified in Paragraph 1 may be waived for the devices which have acquired examination report according to Paragraph 3 of Article 14.
The content and format of approval label are stipulated in attachment 3.
Article 17
The chassis manufactured by domestic chassis manufacturers or imported by importer to construct body in Taiwan have to process the chassis type registration.
To process the type of chassis registration, the applicants shall provide following documents to certification institution, the document of application shall have seal the applicant and the duty-person on it or other electronically certified method. After registered by certification institution, certification institution shall issue the registration report：
1. The copy of the applicant’s qualification document.
(1) For domestic chassis manufacturers, shall provide company registration or commercial registration documents and factory registration documents.
(2) For the chassis importer, shall provide company registration or commercial registration documents. Authorized importers have to provide additional authorization documents.
2. For the chassis for construction of large passenger vehicles, applicants shall provide the body construction-on-chassis manual.
3. The specification list and picture of the chassis type.
4. For the chassis of class I and class II large passenger vehicles shall provide the verification documents of durability test of completed vehicle and the main components list for each type of chassis.
When there are new Testing Regulations applied to chassis, if the chassis type were registered and used by domestic body maker to construct completed vehicle and been approved, for the same type of chassis which were manufactured or imported but not used to construct completed vehicle before the implementation of new Testing Regulations, the chassis manufacturers, importers or body makers may inventoried the chassis and apply to comply with the original Regulations in Vehicle Safety Testing Directions toward certification institution within 1 month after the implementation date of the new Testing Items.
Article 17-1
For chassis manufacturers applying for vehicle safety type approval for the first time, the applicants shall provide the following documents and their plants shall be assessed and approved by certification institution:
1. Legal plant document and scale of plant document.
2. The COP control plan.
3. The verification documents of durability test.
4. For applicants authorized by foreign manufacturers to assemble or manufacture chassis, authorization documents from foreign manufacturers shall be provided.
5. For applicants not authorized by foreign manufacturers to assemble or manufacture chassis, the design and development technical documents about the performance of powertrain and braking, and analysis of vehicle structure shall be provided. For large passenger vehicle chassis manufacturers, research and development technical capability documents shall be provided.