As from 1st July this year NWML have been publishing all Type Approval Certificates that they issue, including revisions and amendments, online. They can be accessed through the NWML website home page and you can if you want sign up to an email alert service that will notify you each time a new TAC is issued. There are four categories of Certificates being published this way;
- NAWI Certificates
- MID Certificates
- UK National Certificates
- EEC Amendments and Revisions
As we understand it there are at the moment no plans to publish earlier TACs.
The UK has always regarded Type Approval Certificates as public documents and this has continued to be the case under the NAWI Directive and MID. Unfortunately that is not the situation in some other Member States where publication of TACs is not commonplace and anyone wishing to gain access to TACs issued in those Member States has had to subscribe to EMETAS to obtain copies. The move by NWML to publish TACs that they issue on line as freely available documents is very welcome and NWML should be congratulated for moving forward in this way.
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