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II.STATE OF PLAY3. The Working Party on Technical Harmonisation (Motor Vehicles) has examined the proposalon 27 occasions during the Belgian, Hungarian, Polish and Danish Presidencies.4. The Presidency submits in the Annex to this note a compromise package to serve as basis forforthcoming negotiations with the European Parliament aiming at exploring the possibilitiesfor a first-reading agreement.5. A number of issues are still open. The main outstanding issues are listed under III and theother issues under IV.III. MAIN OUTSTANDING ISSUESa) Scope and categories (Articles 2 and 4, Annex I) (EP amendments 38, 117-119): thedelineation between L and T categories was the main difficulty as concerns the scope. TheEuropean Parliament proposes to split the classification of all terrain vehicles and side-by-sidevehicles between this proposal and the tractors proposal on the basis of the use criterion(either leisure or professional). After intensive technical work, the Working Party finalised on30 and 31 May an alternative proposal for this division, which concerns both the L and Tdossiers. One delegation would still wish a higher maximum design speed (110 km/h insteadof 90 km/h) for heavy on-road quads (L7Ae). This is opposed by other delegations and theCommission. It can be noted that the actual real speed of such vehicles is in general 10-15km/h higher than the maximum design speed. The Presidency intends to negotiate with theEuropean Parliament on the basis of the text in the Annex, which is supported by mostdelegations and the Commission, and which constitutes a package for the L and T dossiers.10391/12 CDP/io 2DG G 3 ALIMITE EN