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.