Translation of "Driving tractors " (English → French) :

‘category T4.3’ (low-clearance tractors) comprises four-wheel drive tractors whose interchangeable equipment is intended for agricultural or forestry use and which are characterised by a supporting frame, equipped with one or more power take-offs, having a technically permissible mass no greater than 10 tonnes, for which the ratio of this mass to the maximum unladen mass in running order is less than 2,5 and having the centre of gravity, measured in relation to the ground using the tyres normally fitted, of less than 850 mm;

In the case of a two-wheel drive tractor this will normally be the rear axle; this arrangement is shown in Annex IV, fig. 7. The two lashings shall pass over the axle from points directly below it, one passing to a point of attachment approximately 1,5 m in front of the axle and the other to a point approximately 1,5 m behind the axle.

Therefore, Council Directive 80/720/EEC of 24 June 1980 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the operating space, access to the driving position and the doors and windows of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors (2), Directive 2003/37/EC, Directive 2009/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the maximum design speed of and load platforms for wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors (3) and Directive 2009/144/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 Novembe ...[+++]r 2009 on certain components and characteristics of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors (4) should be amended to take account of the specificities of low-clearance tractors.

The Canadian industry produces four-wheel drive tractors, combine harvesters, seeding and tillage equipment, hay handling and harvesting equipment, grain handling and storage equipment.

Whereas Council Directive 74/150/EEC of 4 March 1984 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of wheeled agricultural or forestory tractors(4), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, lays down that the necessary provisions for the implementation of the EEC type-approval procedure in respect of individual tractor parts or characteristics should be specified in special directives; whereas the provisions relating to roll-over protection structures and their attachments to tractors were laid down by Directives 77/536/EEC(5) and 79/622/EEC(6), as last amended by the Act of Ac ...[+++]cession of Spain and Portugal; whereas these two Directives cover respectively dynamic and static testing procedures - either of which may be employed by manufacturers for the present - and relate to standard tractors, that is, tractors having a maximum ground clearance of 1 000 mm and a fixed or adjustable track width of one of the driving axles of not less than 1 150 mm and weighing between 1,5 and 4,5 tonnes in the case of tractors covered by the 'dynamic testing' directive and not less than 800 kilograms in the case of tractors covered by the 'static testing' directive;

In the case of a two-wheel drive tractor this will normally be the rear axle ; this arrangement is shown in Annex IV, fig. 7. The two lashings shall pass over the axle from points directly below it, one passing to a point of attachment approximately 1 75 m in front of the axle and the other to a point approximately 1 75 m behind the axle.