Nov 2012, Members of the European Parliament, accepting Article 2.2(g)

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In short...
Vehicles which excludes vehicles primarily intended for off-road use and designed to travel on unpaved surfaces from the type-approval procedure. As a result, they only have to comply with the General Product Safety, Machinery and EMC Directives, which hold no specific technical requirements for these vehicles. The exclusion sets no limit to the speed and the motor output for these vehicles.

There is great dispute from ETRA, in my opinion " please drop the bureaucracy paperwork and start living". If it was so much bureaucracy 100 years ago, a car would not be on street now !