--- title: "TLR — Tyre Labelling Regulation" description: "The Tyre Labelling Regulation requires every C1, C2 and C3 tyre on the EU market to carry the EU tyre label showing fuel efficiency, wet grip and rolling noise classes, entered in EPREL and shown in sales and advertising, binding tyre suppliers, distributors and vehicle suppliers. It has applied since 1 May 2021 and has never been amended." type: "guide" url: "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/tlr/" markdown: "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/tlr.md" locale: "en" language: "en" published: "2020-06-25" updated: "2026-09-13" author: "Conphora compliance team" publisher: "Conphora" reference: "Regulation (EU) 2020/740" celex: "32020R0740" source: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32020R0740" tags: ["TLR", "Energy & Ecodesign"] license: "Free to quote with attribution and a link to the page" --- # TLR — Tyre Labelling Regulation The Tyre Labelling Regulation requires every C1, C2 and C3 tyre on the EU market to carry the EU tyre label showing fuel efficiency, wet grip and rolling noise classes, entered in EPREL and shown in sales and advertising, binding tyre suppliers, distributors and vehicle suppliers. It has applied since 1 May 2021 and has never been amended. ## Key facts - **Official title:** Regulation (EU) 2020/740 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 2020 on the labelling of tyres with respect to fuel efficiency and other parameters, amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 - **Reference:** Regulation (EU) 2020/740 - **CELEX:** 32020R0740 - **Act type:** Regulation - **In force:** 2020-06-25 - **Applies from:** 2021-05-01 - **Enforced by:** National market surveillance authorities enforce the regulation: Article 12(1) makes Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 applicable to the tyres covered, Article 11(4) obliges Member States to have their authorities run routine and ad hoc inspections of points of sale, and Article 12(3) requires the national market surveillance strategies drawn up under Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 to include actions enforcing tyre labelling; the Commission supports cooperation through the Administrative Cooperation Group for the Labelling of Tyres, and authorities may recover the cost of document inspection and physical product testing from a non-compliant supplier under Article 12(4). Accuracy is checked by a relevant national authority, which Article 4(5) and Article 11(3) define by reference to the term 'national authority' in Article 3, point (37) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858: an approval authority or any other authority involved in and responsible for market surveillance, border control or registration in a Member State in respect of vehicles, systems, components, separate technical units, parts or equipment. The word 'relevant' is this regulation's own; Regulation (EU) 2018/858 does not define a 'relevant national authority'. That authority receives the declared values and the label from the supplier before placing on the market under Article 4(5) and verifies them against the documentation under Article 11(3), using the Annex VI verification procedure and its tolerances. Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 is point 34 of Annex I and point 14 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and those entries are read as this regulation, since Article 17 provides that references to the repealed regulation are construed as references to Regulation (EU) 2020/740; tyre labelling is not in the Article 4(5) list of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, so the separate duty to have a responsible economic operator established in the Union does not arise there, although a supplier is by definition an EU manufacturer, an authorised representative or an importer established in the Union. In Denmark the product act (lov om produkter og markedsovervågning, LBK nr. 22 of 8 January 2026) lists the regulation in section 2 as product area nr. 33, which makes it a product regulation under section 4, nr. 5 and a traffic-related product under section 4, nr. 6. Two Danish authorities share the work, and which one you deal with depends on the provision. For Article 4(5) and Article 11(3) — submitting the declared values and the label before placing a tyre on the market, and having them verified — the Danish addressee is Færdselsstyrelsen, which is the approval authority for vehicles and their parts under the vehicle approval and inspection act and executive order nr. 787 of 18 June 2025, and therefore a national authority within Article 3, point (37) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858. For general market surveillance and for penalties, Erhvervsstyrelsen is the control authority under section 9(1) of the product act, through its department Markedsovervågning, which has continued the tasks of Sikkerhedsstyrelsen since January 2026. Section 9(2) does not displace it here: it moves the control only where other legislation lays down rules on the prevention of specific risks, and a tyre label is an information requirement, not a risk rule. The transport minister's power in section 8 c to make rules on the control of labelling requirements for traffic-related products is exercised by Færdselsstyrelsen, but no executive order under that section covers tyre labelling, so the power is unused. In practice Færdselsstyrelsen publishes the Danish guidance on the tyre label and is the natural first contact. The toolkit is a temporary prohibition where a product may present a risk, orders to warn users, stop misleading marketing, remedy the non-compliance, stop sales, withdraw, recall or destroy the product, warnings, prohibitions on placing on the market or making available, and fines that rise to imprisonment of up to 2 years in aggravating circumstances. - **Category:** Energy & Ecodesign ## Who it applies to **Covered by the act:** C1, C2 and C3 tyres placed on the market, that is tyres belonging to the classes set out in Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 661/2009: class C1 designed primarily for M1, N1, O1 and O2 vehicles, class C2 designed primarily for M2, M3, N, O3 and O4 vehicles with a load capacity index in single formation of 121 or less and a speed category symbol of N or higher, and class C3 designed primarily for the same vehicle categories with a load capacity index of 121 or less and a speed category symbol of M or lower, or a load capacity index of 122 or more; a tyre may fall in more than one class; Re-treaded tyres, which are inside the scope but whose requirements apply only once a suitable testing method to measure their performance is available in accordance with Article 13; the Commission was to introduce those requirements by delegated act by 26 June 2022 provided such a method existed, and none has been adopted; Second-hand tyres imported from a third country, which are the one category of used tyre the regulation covers; The label itself: the harmonised EU tyre label of Annex II carrying the QR code, the supplier's trade name or trademark, the tyre type identifier, the size designation, load-capacity index and speed category symbol, the tyre class, the fuel efficiency pictogram, scale and class, the wet grip pictogram, scale and class, the external rolling noise pictogram, value in dB(A) and class, the snow grip and ice grip pictograms where they apply, and the serial number 2020/740; The supply and sales chain: suppliers, meaning a manufacturer established in the Union, an authorised representative of a manufacturer not established in the Union, or an importer, who places a tyre on the Union market; distributors, meaning anyone in the supply chain other than the supplier who makes a tyre available on the market; vehicle suppliers and vehicle distributors selling new vehicles; and hosting service providers that allow tyres to be sold through their internet site **Derived and downstream products:** The regulation is directly applicable in all Member States and needs no national transposition; national law adds only the penalties, the enforcement mechanisms and the designation of authorities that Article 11(5) and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 leave to the Member States; Article 3, point (1) and Annex I, Part C cite Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 for the tyre classes and for the rolling noise limit values LV; that regulation was repealed by Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 with effect from 6 July 2022 and references to it are construed as references to that regulation. Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 does not itself restate the C1, C2 and C3 class definitions or the rolling noise limit values, so read literally the reference now points at provisions that no longer exist anywhere in enacted Union law. The workable reading, and the one the industry applies, is that the substance survives through UNECE Regulation No 117, which Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 makes mandatory through its Annex II and to which Annex I of this regulation refers directly for the test methods, and that the class definitions and limit values of the repealed regulation continue to supply the content until the Commission amends the annexes by delegated act under Article 13; Article 8 addresses a service provider as referred to in Article 14 of Directive 2000/31/EC; Articles 12 to 15 of that directive were deleted by Article 89 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, the Digital Services Act, which applies from 17 February 2024, and references to Article 14 are construed as references to Article 6 of that regulation; Eight groups of tyres are excluded by Article 2(2), points (a) to (h): off-road professional tyres, tyres designed to be fitted only on vehicles registered for the first time before 1 October 1990, T-type temporary-use spare tyres, tyres with a speed rating below 80 km per hour, tyres whose nominal rim diameter does not exceed 254 mm or is 635 mm or more, tyres fitted with additional devices to improve traction such as studded tyres, tyres designed only for vehicles intended exclusively for racing, and second-hand tyres unless imported from a third country; The product database is the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling, EPREL, established under Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1369; the regulation amended Article 12(2), point (a) of that regulation so that the database also supports market surveillance under this regulation, and the QR code on the label leads to the tyre's entry; Fuel efficiency is graded A to E on the rolling resistance coefficient in N per kN, wet grip A to E on the wet grip index G, and external rolling noise A to C against the limit value LV, with class A at LV minus 3 dB(A) or less, class B above that up to LV, and class C above LV; where a tyre type belongs to more than one class, the grading scale of the highest tyre class applies (Annex I, Parts A to C, and, for the class letters and the rounded noise value on the label, Annex II, points 1.2 to 1.5 and 2.2); The regulation sets no company-size threshold and no exemption for small businesses; the duties follow the role in the chain, not turnover or headcount; Incentives granted by Member States for tyres may target only class A or class B tyres for rolling resistance or wet grip; taxation and fiscal measures are not incentives for this purpose **Roles under the act:** - **Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union** — A supplier is a manufacturer established in the Union, an authorised representative of a manufacturer not established in the Union, or an importer, who places a product on the Union market; a manufacturer is any natural or legal person who manufactures a product or has a product designed or manufactured, and markets that product under its name or trademark. The supplier carries the label, product information sheet, database and accuracy obligations of Articles 4 and 5. - **Supplier: importer** — An importer is any natural or legal person established within the Union who places a product from a third country on the Union market. An importer that places tyres on the Union market is a supplier under Article 3, point (15) and carries the full supplier obligations of Articles 4 and 5, not a separate lighter set of verification duties. - **Supplier: authorised representative of a non-EU manufacturer** — An authorised representative is a natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on the manufacturer's behalf in relation to specified tasks with regard to the manufacturer's obligations under this regulation; where the manufacturer is not established in the Union and the representative places the tyres on the Union market, it is the supplier. - **Tyre distributor: wholesaler, retailer, workshop or online shop** — A distributor is any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the supplier, who makes a product available on the market. Distributors carry the point-of-sale, distance selling, advertising and promotional material duties of Article 6. - **Vehicle supplier and vehicle distributor selling new vehicles** — Vehicle suppliers and vehicle distributors are the actors that offer new vehicles to end-users; where an end-user intends to acquire a new vehicle they must provide, before the sale, the tyre label for the tyres offered with or fitted on the vehicle and any relevant technical promotional material, and ensure the product information sheet is available. - **Hosting service provider whose site is used to sell tyres** — A service provider as referred to in Article 14 of Directive 2000/31/EC, read since 17 February 2024 as Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, that allows the selling of tyres through its internet site; it must enable the display of the tyre label and the product information sheet close to the price indication and inform the distributor of the display obligation. ## Key dates - 2012-07-01: Articles 4 and 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009, the supplier and distributor duties of the first EU tyre label, do not apply to tyres produced before this date - 2012-11-01: Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 applies; it is the act Regulation (EU) 2020/740 replaces - 2020-05-25: Regulation (EU) 2020/740 adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on the legal bases of Article 114 and Article 194(2) TFEU - 2020-06-25: Entry into force, the twentieth day after publication in OJ L 177 of 5 June 2020; suppliers may from this date enter tyres already placed on the market into the product database voluntarily - 2020-07-27: First corrigendum published in OJ L 241; EUR-Lex records it as correcting the German, English and Italian language versions, and the consolidated text lists it as C1 - 2021-04-30: Corrigendum published in OJ L 147 corrects the title block of the act, which now carries the words Text with EEA relevance; it is folded into the consolidated text as C2 - 2021-05-01: Regulation (EU) 2020/740 applies and Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 is repealed; from this date suppliers must enter the Annex VII information into the product database before placing a tyre produced after that date on the market, and Member States had to notify the Commission of their penalty and enforcement rules - 2021-10-28: Corrigendum published in OJ L 382 corrects the Annex II format specifications of the label, among them the Verdana and Calibri point sizes, the arrow outlines and the pictogram dimensions; it is folded into the consolidated text as C3 - 2021-11-30: Deadline for suppliers to enter the Annex VII information into the product database for tyres produced between 25 June 2020 and 30 April 2021 - 2022-06-26: Deadline by which the Commission was to adopt delegated acts introducing information requirements for re-treaded tyres in the annexes, provided a suitable testing method was available; no such delegated act has been adopted, so re-treaded tyres still carry no label requirements - 2022-07-06: Regulation (EC) No 661/2009, which Article 3, point (1) cites for the C1, C2 and C3 tyre classes and Annex I, Part C cites for the rolling noise limit values, is repealed by Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 from its date of application; references to it are construed as references to that regulation - 2024-02-17: Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, the Digital Services Act, applies and deletes Articles 12 to 15 of Directive 2000/31/EC; the reference in Article 8 to a service provider under Article 14 of that directive is read as a reference to Article 6 of the Digital Services Act - 2025-06-01: Deadline for the Commission to evaluate the regulation and report to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee, including on the costs and benefits of mandatory independent third-party verification of the label information - 2025-06-25: End of the first five-year period of the Commission's delegated powers under Article 13, tacitly extended for an identical period unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes - 2025-07-01: Danish executive order nr. 787 of 18 June 2025 in force: the transport minister's powers over market surveillance and labelling requirements for traffic-related products under section 8 c of the product act are exercised by Færdselsstyrelsen, which also carries out the vehicle approval and inspection tasks - 2026-01-08: The Danish product act is consolidated as LBK nr. 22 of 8 January 2026, listing Regulation (EU) 2020/740 as product area nr. 33 and Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 as nr. 32, both traffic-related products; Sikkerhedsstyrelsen is since January 2026 the department Markedsovervågning of Erhvervsstyrelsen, the control authority under section 9 - 2026-06-24: The Commission adopts COM(2026) 565 final, a proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 and Regulation (EU) 2020/740 on simplification and digital options, together with the implementation reports under Article 19 of the energy labelling regulation and Article 15 of this regulation; the proposal is not law and changes nothing until it is adopted ## What you must do ### Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union - Test and grade each tyre type with the methods of Annex I: the rolling resistance coefficient in N per kN under Annex 6 to UNECE Regulation No 117, aligned with the laboratory alignment procedure of Annex V, graded A to E on the class-specific scale; the wet grip index G under Annex 5 to UNECE Regulation No 117, calculated as G(T) minus 0,03 and graded A to E; the external rolling noise value N in dB(A) under Annex 3 to UNECE Regulation No 117, declared in decibels rounded to the nearest integer and classed A where N is at or below the limit value LV minus 3, B where N is above LV minus 3 and at or below LV, and C where N is above LV; snow grip under Annex 7 to UNECE Regulation No 117; and ice grip against reliable, accurate and reproducible methods reflecting the state of the art. Where a tyre type falls in more than one tyre class, use the grading scale of the highest class. - Accompany every C1, C2 and C3 tyre placed on the market free of charge either with an individual sticker label complying with Annex II and a product information sheet, or with one printed label and product information sheet per batch of one or more identical tyres. The label carries the QR code, your trade name or trademark, the tyre type identifier, the size designation, load-capacity index and speed category symbol under UNECE Regulation No 30 or No 54, the tyre class C1, C2 or C3, the fuel efficiency and wet grip pictograms, scales and classes in the upper part, and in the lower part the rolling noise pictogram, value and class, the snow grip and ice grip pictograms where the tyre qualifies, and the serial number 2020/740; the minimum size is 75 mm wide and 110 mm high on a 100 per cent white background in Verdana and Calibri with the Annex II colour codes. - Enter the Annex VII information into the product database before placing a tyre produced after 1 May 2021 on the market: in the public part your trade name or trademark, address, contact details and legal identification, the tyre type identifier, the label in electronic format, the classes and other label parameters and the parameters of the product information sheet; in the compliance part the identifiers of all equivalent tyre types already placed on the market, a general description with dimensions, load index and speed rating, the testing, grading and measurement protocols for the Annex I parameters, any specific precautions for assembly, installation, maintenance or testing, the measured technical parameters and the calculations performed with them. Treat a tyre whose label-relevant or sheet-relevant characteristics change as a new tyre type, record in the database when you stop placing a tyre type on the market, and keep the compliance-part information for five years after the final unit was placed on the market. - Enter the Annex VII information into the product database before placing a tyre produced after 1 May 2021 on the market: the public part (your identification, tyre type identifier, electronic label, classes and sheet parameters) and the compliance part (equivalent types, description, test protocols, measured parameters and calculations). - Treat a tyre whose label-relevant or sheet-relevant characteristics change as a new tyre type in the database, and record in the database when you stop placing a tyre type on the market. - Keep the compliance-part information for five years after the final unit of the tyre type was placed on the market. - Submit to a relevant national authority, a term Article 4(5) defines by reference to the 'national authority' of Article 3, point (37) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858, before placing the tyre type on the market, the values used to determine the classes, any additional performance information you declare on the label and the label itself, so the authority can verify the label's accuracy; keep an electronic version of the technical documentation ready for inspection within 10 working days of a market surveillance authority's request until the database entry is made, and provide type-approval or market surveillance authorities with any further information they need on request. - Before placing the tyre type on the market, submit to a relevant national authority the values used to determine the classes, any additional performance information you declare on the label and the label itself, so the authority can verify the label's accuracy. - Until the database entry is made, keep an electronic version of the technical documentation ready for inspection within 10 working days of a market surveillance authority's request. - Provide type-approval or market surveillance authorities with any further information they need on request. - Display the label in your own selling and marketing: in distance selling show the label close to the price indication in a size proportionate to the Annex II specification and make the product information sheet accessible, including in printed form on request; show the label in any visual advertisement for a specific tyre type and close to the price where the advertisement gives a price, with a nested display allowed online; and display the label and the Annex IV information in any technical promotional material for a specific tyre type, stating the range from the lowest to the highest performing type where a tyre family is classified differently by dimension. - Publish on your website a link to the Commission webpage dedicated to this regulation, an explanation of the label pictograms and the statement that actual fuel savings and road safety depend heavily on driver behaviour, that eco-driving can significantly reduce fuel consumption, that tyre pressure must be checked regularly to optimise fuel efficiency and wet grip and that stopping distances must always be respected; where relevant, also publish the statement that ice grip tyres are designed for ice and compact snow and may perform sub-optimally, in particular for wet grip, handling and wear, in less severe conditions. - Ensure the accuracy of every label and product information sheet you provide, and do not provide or display other labels, marks, symbols or inscriptions that do not comply with the regulation and would be likely to mislead or confuse end-users about the Annex I parameters, or labels that mimic the EU tyre label. Cooperate with market surveillance authorities and take immediate action to remedy any non-compliance for which you are responsible, on your own initiative or when required to do so. - Ensure the accuracy of every label and product information sheet you provide, and do not provide or display other labels, marks, symbols or inscriptions that would mislead or confuse end-users about the Annex I parameters, or that mimic the EU tyre label. - Cooperate with market surveillance authorities and take immediate action to remedy any non-compliance for which you are responsible, on your own initiative or when required to do so. ### Supplier: importer - As an importer placing tyres from a third country on the Union market you are a supplier, so Articles 4 and 5 apply to you in full: the label and product information sheet with every tyre or batch, the database entry before placing on the market, the submission of values and label to the relevant national authority, accuracy, the distance selling, advertising and promotional material duties and the website statements. There is no reduced importer regime and no verification-only role in this regulation. - Obtain the Annex I test and grading results, the Annex V laboratory alignment for rolling resistance and the Annex VII compliance data from the manufacturer before you place the tyre type on the market, since you must be able to enter the protocols, measured technical parameters and calculations into the compliance part of the database and to make the technical documentation available to a market surveillance authority within 10 working days until you have. - Check the tyres against Article 2 before importing: the eight exclusions in Article 2(2) mean no duties arise, re-treaded tyres carry none until the Commission adopts the delegated acts, and second-hand tyres are covered only when they are imported from a third country, which makes an imported used tyre a fully labelled product while the same tyre traded inside the Union is not. - Keep the database entry current: register a changed tyre type as a new type, indicate in the database when you cease to place a tyre type on the market, keep the compliance-part information for five years after the final unit was placed on the market, and enter tyres produced between 25 June 2020 and 30 April 2021 that you still place on the market, which had to be entered by 30 November 2021. - Keep the database entry current: register a changed tyre type as a new type, indicate when you cease to place a tyre type on the market, and enter any tyres produced between 25 June 2020 and 30 April 2021 that you still place on the market. - Keep the compliance-part information for five years after the final unit of the tyre type was placed on the market. - Cooperate with market surveillance authorities and take immediate action to remedy non-compliance for which you are responsible; be ready for the Annex VI verification, where a single tyre or tyre set is tested first and three further tyres or sets are tested if the first fails, and expect to bear the cost of document inspection and physical product testing where you are found non-compliant. ### Supplier: authorised representative of a non-EU manufacturer - Act under a written mandate from the manufacturer covering specified tasks with regard to the manufacturer's obligations under the regulation; where the manufacturer is not established in the Union and you place the tyres on the Union market, you are the supplier and carry the Article 4 and Article 5 obligations for those tyres. - Act under a written mandate from the manufacturer covering specified tasks with regard to the manufacturer's obligations under the regulation. - Where the manufacturer is not established in the Union and you place the tyres on the Union market, you are the supplier and carry the Article 4 and Article 5 obligations for those tyres. - Register the tyre types in the product database under your own identification as supplier, with the trade name or trademark, address, contact details and legal identification in the public part, and keep the compliance part complete with the test protocols, measured parameters and calculations. - Submit the values used to determine the classes, any additional declared performance information and the label to the relevant national authority before the tyre types are placed on the market, and answer requests for further information from type-approval and market surveillance authorities. - Submit the values used to determine the classes, any additional declared performance information and the label to the relevant national authority before the tyre types are placed on the market. - Answer requests for further information from type-approval and market surveillance authorities. - Make technical documentation available to authorities of other Member States or to relevant national accredited bodies on request, cooperate with market surveillance authorities and take immediate action to remedy non-compliance for which you are responsible. ### Tyre distributor: wholesaler, retailer, workshop or online shop - At the point of sale, make sure displayed tyres bear the supplier's sticker label complying with Annex II in a clearly visible position and legible in its entirety and that the product information sheet is available, including in printed form on request; for a tyre that is part of a batch of identical tyres, show the printed label to the end-user before the sale and display it clearly close to the tyre, with the product information sheet available. - Where the tyres offered for sale are not visible to the end-user at the time of sale, which is the normal situation in a workshop or a warehouse-based shop, give the end-user a copy of the tyre label before the sale. - For tyres sold or offered for sale on the internet, display the tyre label close to the price indication, clearly visible and legible and proportionate to the size specified in point 2.1 of Annex II, and make the product information sheet accessible; a nested display of the label for a specific tyre type is allowed. - In paper-based distance selling show the tyre label and give end-users access to the product information sheet through a free access website and on request in printed form; in telemarketing-based distance selling tell end-users the class for each label parameter and tell them they can reach the label and the product information sheet through a free access website and by asking for a printed copy. - Show the tyre label in any visual advertisement for a specific tyre type, and close to the price indication where the advertisement gives a price, with a nested display allowed for visual advertisements on the internet; display the tyre label and include the Annex IV information in any technical promotional material for a specific tyre type. - Where relevant, publish on your website the statement that ice grip tyres are specifically designed for road surfaces covered with ice and compact snow, should only be used in very severe climate conditions, and may perform sub-optimally in less severe conditions, in particular for wet grip, handling and wear. - Expect routine and ad hoc inspections of your point of sale: Member States must ensure their market surveillance authorities operate such a system of inspections under Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, and the national market surveillance strategy must include actions to enforce tyre labelling effectively. ### Vehicle supplier and vehicle distributor selling new vehicles - Where an end-user intends to acquire a new vehicle, provide that end-user before the sale with the tyre label for the tyres offered with or fitted on the vehicle, together with any relevant technical promotional material, and ensure the product information sheet is available. - Obtain the labels and product information sheets for every tyre option you offer with a vehicle from the tyre supplier, whose database entry carries the label in electronic format and the sheet parameters, so the end-user can compare the options before choosing. - Where you also sell tyres on their own, as a tyre shop or a workshop attached to the dealership, you are a distributor for those sales and the full Article 6 duties apply, including the point-of-sale display, the copy of the label where the tyres are not visible and the display close to the price online. - Treat the tyre label like the other pre-contractual information you must give: the duty is owed before the sale and to the end-user, defined as a consumer, fleet manager or road transport undertaking that buys or is expected to buy a tyre. ### Hosting service provider whose site is used to sell tyres - Where you allow the selling of tyres through your internet site, enable the display of the tyre label and the product information sheet provided by the supplier close to the price indication; the technical possibility must exist, so a listing template that cannot carry the label is itself the non-compliance. - Inform the distributor selling through your site of the obligation to display the tyre label and the product information sheet. - Read the reference in Article 8 to a service provider under Article 14 of Directive 2000/31/EC as a reference to Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, the Digital Services Act, which deleted Articles 12 to 15 of that directive and applies from 17 February 2024. - Where you do more than host and actually make tyres available on the market yourself, you are a distributor within the meaning of Article 3, point (16) and the full Article 6 duties apply to your listings, including the label close to the price indication and the accessible product information sheet. ## Requirements Each duty above as an identified requirement (36); ids are permanent and shared with the compliance engine. ### evidence - `tlr-mfr-test-grade-tyre` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, product, before-market) — Test and grade each tyre type with the methods of Annex I: the rolling resistance coefficient in N per kN under Annex 6 to UNECE Regulation No 117, aligned with the laboratory alignment procedure of Annex V, graded A to E on the class-specific scale; the wet grip index G under Annex 5 to UNECE Regulation No 117, calculated as G(T) minus 0,03 and graded A to E; the external rolling noise value N in dB(A) under Annex 3 to UNECE Regulation No 117, declared in decibels rounded to the nearest integer and classed A where N is at or below the limit value LV minus 3, B where N is above LV minus 3 and at or below LV, and C where N is above LV; snow grip under Annex 7 to UNECE Regulation No 117; and ice grip against reliable, accurate and reproducible methods reflecting the state of the art. Where a tyre type falls in more than one tyre class, use the grading scale of the highest class. [Art. 9 and Annex I, Parts A to E, Annex II, points 1.2 to 1.5 and 2.2, and Annex V] - `tlr-mfr-ensure-label-accuracy` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, product, before-market) — Ensure the accuracy of every label and product information sheet you provide, and do not provide or display other labels, marks, symbols or inscriptions that would mislead or confuse end-users about the Annex I parameters, or that mimic the EU tyre label. [Art. 4(6), (9) and (10)] - `tlr-imp-obtain-annex-test` (Supplier: importer, product, before-market) — Obtain the Annex I test and grading results, the Annex V laboratory alignment for rolling resistance and the Annex VII compliance data from the manufacturer before you place the tyre type on the market, since you must be able to enter the protocols, measured technical parameters and calculations into the compliance part of the database and to make the technical documentation available to a market surveillance authority within 10 working days until you have. [Art. 5(1) and (4), Annex V and Annex VII, point 2] - `tlr-oth-act-under-mandate` (Supplier: authorised representative of a non-EU manufacturer, company, before-market) — Act under a written mandate from the manufacturer covering specified tasks with regard to the manufacturer's obligations under the regulation. [Art. 3, point (14)] ### data - `tlr-mfr-publish-website-link` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, company, ongoing) — Publish on your website a link to the Commission webpage dedicated to this regulation, an explanation of the label pictograms and the statement that actual fuel savings and road safety depend heavily on driver behaviour, that eco-driving can significantly reduce fuel consumption, that tyre pressure must be checked regularly to optimise fuel efficiency and wet grip and that stopping distances must always be respected; where relevant, also publish the statement that ice grip tyres are designed for ice and compact snow and may perform sub-optimally, in particular for wet grip, handling and wear, in less severe conditions. [Annex IV, points 3 and 4] - `tlr-dist-publish-website-statement` (Tyre distributor: wholesaler, retailer, workshop or online shop, company, ongoing) — Where relevant, publish on your website the statement that ice grip tyres are specifically designed for road surfaces covered with ice and compact snow, should only be used in very severe climate conditions, and may perform sub-optimally in less severe conditions, in particular for wet grip, handling and wear. [Annex IV, point 4] ### mark - `tlr-mfr-accompany-tyre-placed` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, lot, per-lot) — Accompany every C1, C2 and C3 tyre placed on the market free of charge either with an individual sticker label complying with Annex II and a product information sheet, or with one printed label and product information sheet per batch of one or more identical tyres. The label carries the QR code, your trade name or trademark, the tyre type identifier, the size designation, load-capacity index and speed category symbol under UNECE Regulation No 30 or No 54, the tyre class C1, C2 or C3, the fuel efficiency and wet grip pictograms, scales and classes in the upper part, and in the lower part the rolling noise pictogram, value and class, the snow grip and ice grip pictograms where the tyre qualifies, and the serial number 2020/740; the minimum size is 75 mm wide and 110 mm high on a 100 per cent white background in Verdana and Calibri with the Annex II colour codes. [Art. 4(1) and Annex II, points 1 and 2] - `tlr-mfr-display-label-selling` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, product-market, at-listing) — Display the label in your own selling and marketing: in distance selling show the label close to the price indication in a size proportionate to the Annex II specification and make the product information sheet accessible, including in printed form on request; show the label in any visual advertisement for a specific tyre type and close to the price where the advertisement gives a price, with a nested display allowed online; and display the label and the Annex IV information in any technical promotional material for a specific tyre type, stating the range from the lowest to the highest performing type where a tyre family is classified differently by dimension. [Art. 4(2), (3) and (4), and Annex IV, points 1 and 2] - `tlr-dist-point-sale-make` (Tyre distributor: wholesaler, retailer, workshop or online shop, product-market, at-listing) — At the point of sale, make sure displayed tyres bear the supplier's sticker label complying with Annex II in a clearly visible position and legible in its entirety and that the product information sheet is available, including in printed form on request; for a tyre that is part of a batch of identical tyres, show the printed label to the end-user before the sale and display it clearly close to the tyre, with the product information sheet available. [Art. 6(1), points (a) and (b)] - `tlr-dist-normal-situation-workshop` (Tyre distributor: wholesaler, retailer, workshop or online shop, product-market, at-listing) — Where the tyres offered for sale are not visible to the end-user at the time of sale, which is the normal situation in a workshop or a warehouse-based shop, give the end-user a copy of the tyre label before the sale. [Art. 6(4)] - `tlr-dist-display-tyre-label` (Tyre distributor: wholesaler, retailer, workshop or online shop, product-market, at-listing) — For tyres sold or offered for sale on the internet, display the tyre label close to the price indication, clearly visible and legible and proportionate to the size specified in point 2.1 of Annex II, and make the product information sheet accessible; a nested display of the label for a specific tyre type is allowed. [Art. 6(7)] - `tlr-dist-paper-based-distance-selling` (Tyre distributor: wholesaler, retailer, workshop or online shop, product-market, at-listing) — In paper-based distance selling show the tyre label and give end-users access to the product information sheet through a free access website and on request in printed form; in telemarketing-based distance selling tell end-users the class for each label parameter and tell them they can reach the label and the product information sheet through a free access website and by asking for a printed copy. [Art. 6(5) and (6)] - `tlr-dist-show-tyre-label` (Tyre distributor: wholesaler, retailer, workshop or online shop, product-market, at-listing) — Show the tyre label in any visual advertisement for a specific tyre type, and close to the price indication where the advertisement gives a price, with a nested display allowed for visual advertisements on the internet; display the tyre label and include the Annex IV information in any technical promotional material for a specific tyre type. [Art. 6(2) and (3), and Annex IV] - `tlr-trd-provide-end-user-sale` (Vehicle supplier and vehicle distributor selling new vehicles, product-market, at-listing) — Where an end-user intends to acquire a new vehicle, provide that end-user before the sale with the tyre label for the tyres offered with or fitted on the vehicle, together with any relevant technical promotional material, and ensure the product information sheet is available. [Art. 7] ### procedure - `tlr-trd-obtain-labels-product` (Vehicle supplier and vehicle distributor selling new vehicles, product, before-market) — Obtain the labels and product information sheets for every tyre option you offer with a vehicle from the tyre supplier, whose database entry carries the label in electronic format and the sheet parameters, so the end-user can compare the options before choosing. [Art. 5(1) and Annex VII, point 1] - `tlr-omp-inform-distributor-selling` (Hosting service provider whose site is used to sell tyres, company, ongoing) — Inform the distributor selling through your site of the obligation to display the tyre label and the product information sheet. [Art. 8] ### submission - `tlr-mfr-enter-product-database` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, product, before-market) — Enter the Annex VII information into the product database before placing a tyre produced after 1 May 2021 on the market: the public part (your identification, tyre type identifier, electronic label, classes and sheet parameters) and the compliance part (equivalent types, description, test protocols, measured parameters and calculations). [Art. 5(1) and Annex VII] - `tlr-mfr-update-database-changes` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, product, on-event) — Treat a tyre whose label-relevant or sheet-relevant characteristics change as a new tyre type in the database, and record in the database when you stop placing a tyre type on the market. [Art. 5(6)] - `tlr-mfr-submit-values-label` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, product, before-market) — Before placing the tyre type on the market, submit to a relevant national authority the values used to determine the classes, any additional performance information you declare on the label and the label itself, so the authority can verify the label's accuracy. [Art. 4(5)] - `tlr-imp-update-database-changes` (Supplier: importer, product, on-event) — Keep the database entry current: register a changed tyre type as a new type, indicate when you cease to place a tyre type on the market, and enter any tyres produced between 25 June 2020 and 30 April 2021 that you still place on the market. [Art. 5(2) and (6)] - `tlr-oth-register-tyre-types` (Supplier: authorised representative of a non-EU manufacturer, product, before-market) — Register the tyre types in the product database under your own identification as supplier, with the trade name or trademark, address, contact details and legal identification in the public part, and keep the compliance part complete with the test protocols, measured parameters and calculations. [Art. 5(1) and Annex VII] - `tlr-oth-submit-values-label` (Supplier: authorised representative of a non-EU manufacturer, product, before-market) — Submit the values used to determine the classes, any additional declared performance information and the label to the relevant national authority before the tyre types are placed on the market. [Art. 4(5)] ### standing - `tlr-mfr-keep-compliance-information` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, product, ongoing) — Keep the compliance-part information for five years after the final unit of the tyre type was placed on the market. [Art. 5(7)] - `tlr-mfr-keep-technical-documentation-ready` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, product, ongoing) — Until the database entry is made, keep an electronic version of the technical documentation ready for inspection within 10 working days of a market surveillance authority's request. [Art. 5(4)] - `tlr-mfr-provide-information-request` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, company, ongoing) — Provide type-approval or market surveillance authorities with any further information they need on request. [Art. 5(5) and Art. 11(3)] - `tlr-mfr-cooperate-remedy-non-compliance` (Supplier: manufacturer established in the Union, company, ongoing) — Cooperate with market surveillance authorities and take immediate action to remedy any non-compliance for which you are responsible, on your own initiative or when required to do so. [Art. 4(8)] - `tlr-imp-keep-compliance-information` (Supplier: importer, product, ongoing) — Keep the compliance-part information for five years after the final unit of the tyre type was placed on the market. [Art. 5(7)] - `tlr-imp-cooperate-market-surveillance` (Supplier: importer, company, ongoing) — Cooperate with market surveillance authorities and take immediate action to remedy non-compliance for which you are responsible; be ready for the Annex VI verification, where a single tyre or tyre set is tested first and three further tyres or sets are tested if the first fails, and expect to bear the cost of document inspection and physical product testing where you are found non-compliant. [Art. 4(8), Art. 10, Art. 12(4) and Annex VI] - `tlr-oth-provide-information-request` (Supplier: authorised representative of a non-EU manufacturer, company, ongoing) — Answer requests for further information from type-approval and market surveillance authorities. [Art. 5(5)] - `tlr-oth-make-technical-documentation` (Supplier: authorised representative of a non-EU manufacturer, company, ongoing) — Make technical documentation available to authorities of other Member States or to relevant national accredited bodies on request, cooperate with market surveillance authorities and take immediate action to remedy non-compliance for which you are responsible. [Art. 4(7) and (8)] - `tlr-omp-enable-display-tyre` (Hosting service provider whose site is used to sell tyres, company, ongoing) — Where you allow the selling of tyres through your internet site, enable the display of the tyre label and the product information sheet provided by the supplier close to the price indication; the technical possibility must exist, so a listing template that cannot carry the label is itself the non-compliance. [Art. 8] ## Penalties Member States lay down the rules on penalties and enforcement mechanisms applicable to infringements of the regulation and of the delegated acts adopted under it and take all measures necessary to ensure they are implemented; the penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive, and Member States had to notify the Commission of those rules by 1 May 2021 and must notify any later amendment without delay. Market surveillance authorities may in addition recover the costs of document inspection and physical product testing from a supplier that does not comply, and act with the powers of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, which applies to the tyres covered: requiring documents and supply-chain information, inspecting and testing products, requiring corrective action, prohibiting the making available of a product and having it withdrawn, recalled or destroyed. Article 11(1) forbids Member States to impede the placing on the market or putting into service of compliant tyres, and Article 11(2) restricts national incentives to class A or class B tyres for rolling resistance or wet grip, taxation and fiscal measures aside. In Denmark the product act (LBK nr. 22 of 8 January 2026) lists the regulation as product area nr. 33 and makes it a product regulation the control authority enforces: the authority can issue a temporary prohibition on delivery, marketing, display or other making available where a product may present a risk, order anyone who has placed a product on the market or been a link in its sale to warn users of the risks, stop misleading marketing, remedy the non-compliance, stop sales or delivery, withdraw the product effectively and immediately, recall it from users or destroy it safely, issue warnings, and prohibit placing on the market, making available, delivery or putting into use. A tyre that does not comply with the regulation puts the economic operator in breach of section 5(1)(2) of the product act, which requires products to comply with the product regulations and which section 3 a does not switch off for traffic-related products. That breach is punished under section 37(1)(1) with a fine, unless a higher penalty is due under other legislation, and the penalty can rise to imprisonment of up to 2 years in aggravating circumstances — danger to safety or health, an accident causing serious injury or death, repetition, or a systematic breach for gain — because tyre labelling is product area nr. 33, inside the band the escalation covers. Failing to comply with the authority's decisions and evading its control are punished on the same scale. Companies can be held criminally liable under chapter 5 of the criminal code. The act also lets the business minister set penalties for the product regulations by executive order, but section 3 a disapplies that power to traffic-related products and no such order has been made for tyre labelling. ## Checklist 1. Confirm the tyre is a C1, C2 or C3 tyre and is not one of the eight exclusions in Article 2(2): off-road professional, pre-October-1990 vehicles only, T-type temporary spare, speed rating below 80 km per hour, nominal rim diameter of 254 mm or less or 635 mm or more, studded or other traction-device tyres, racing-only tyres, and second-hand tyres that are not imported from a third country (Article 2). 2. Decide your role for each tyre: supplier if you are an EU manufacturer, the authorised representative of a non-EU manufacturer or an importer placing tyres on the Union market, distributor if you make them available further down the chain, vehicle supplier or distributor when tyres go with a new vehicle, or hosting service provider when others sell through your site (Article 3, points (12) to (16), and Articles 6 to 8). 3. Test and grade each tyre type to Annex I with the UNECE Regulation No 117 methods and the Annex V laboratory alignment for rolling resistance, and record the fuel efficiency class A to E, the wet grip class A to E, the noise value in dB(A) and its class A to C, and whether the tyre meets the snow grip and ice grip index values (Article 9 and Annexes I and V). 4. Produce the Annex II label for each tyre type: QR code, trade name or trademark, tyre type identifier, size designation with load-capacity index and speed category symbol, tyre class, the fuel efficiency and wet grip blocks, the noise block, the snow and ice pictograms where they apply and the serial number 2020/740, at 75 mm by 110 mm minimum in the specified typefaces and colours (Annex II). 5. Draw up the Annex III product information sheet with the supplier and manufacturer trade names, the tyre type identifier, the size designation, the three classes and the noise value, the snow and ice indications and the start and, once known, end dates of production of the tyre type in week and year (Annex III). 6. Enter the Annex VII public and compliance information into the product database before placing the tyre type on the market, register a changed tyre type as a new type, record when you stop placing it on the market, and keep the compliance information for five years after the final unit (Article 5 and Annex VII). 7. Submit the values, the additional declared performance information and the label to the relevant national authority before placing on the market, and keep an electronic copy of the technical documentation available within 10 working days of a request until the database entry exists (Article 4(5) and Article 5(4)). 8. Set up the display chain: sticker or batch label at every point of sale, a copy of the label to the buyer where tyres are not visible, the label close to the price in online listings and paper distance selling, the classes read out in telemarketing, the label in visual advertising, and the Annex IV information in technical promotional material (Articles 4, 6 and 7 and Annex IV). 9. Publish the Annex IV website content, the link to the Commission webpage, the pictogram explanation, the driver-behaviour statement and, where relevant, the ice grip statement, and remove any label, mark or inscription that could mislead about the Annex I parameters or mimic the EU tyre label (Article 4(9) and (10) and Annex IV, points 3 and 4). ## Questions ### When did the Tyre Labelling Regulation start to apply and what did it replace? Regulation (EU) 2020/740 was adopted on 25 May 2020, published in the Official Journal on 5 June 2020 and entered into force on the twentieth day after publication, 25 June 2020. It applies from 1 May 2021, and on the same date it repealed Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009, the first EU tyre labelling regulation, which had applied since 1 November 2012; references to the repealed regulation are construed as references to Regulation (EU) 2020/740 and read against the correlation table in its Annex VIII. There is no transitional rule keeping old labels alive: the database duty of Article 5(1) bites from 1 May 2021 for tyres produced after that date, tyres produced between 25 June 2020 and 30 April 2021 had to be entered by 30 November 2021, and tyres placed on the market before 25 June 2020 could be entered voluntarily. The regulation has never been amended; three corrigenda are folded into the consolidated text and a Commission proposal of 24 June 2026 to amend it is not yet law. ### Which tyres are covered and which are exempt? The regulation covers C1, C2 and C3 tyres placed on the market, the classes set out in Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 661/2009, read since 6 July 2022 against Regulation (EU) 2019/2144: C1 for passenger cars, vans and light trailers, C2 and C3 for buses, lorries and heavy trailers, split by load capacity index and speed category symbol. Article 2(2) excludes eight groups: off-road professional tyres, tyres designed only for vehicles registered for the first time before 1 October 1990, T-type temporary-use spare tyres, tyres with a speed rating below 80 km per hour, tyres with a nominal rim diameter of 254 mm or less or 635 mm or more, tyres with additional traction devices such as studs, tyres designed only for racing vehicles, and second-hand tyres unless they are imported from a third country. Re-treaded tyres are inside the scope but their requirements start only when the Commission introduces them by delegated act once a suitable test method exists, which has not happened. ### What exactly does the EU tyre label show? The upper part carries the QR code, the supplier's trade name or trademark, the tyre type identifier, the tyre size designation with load-capacity index and speed category symbol under UNECE Regulation No 30 or No 54, the tyre class C1, C2 or C3, and the fuel efficiency and wet grip pictograms with their A to E scales and the tyre's class. The lower part carries the external rolling noise pictogram, the value in dB(A) rounded to the nearest integer and the noise class on the A to C range, the three-peak mountain snowflake snow grip pictogram where the tyre meets the UNECE Regulation No 117 snow grip index values, the ice grip pictogram where it meets the relevant ice grip index values, and the serial number 2020/740. The label is at least 75 mm wide and 110 mm high, on a 100 per cent white background, in Verdana and Calibri with the CMYK colours, arrow outlines and pictogram dimensions set out in Annex II point 2.2, which the corrigendum of 28 October 2021 corrected. ### What is EPREL registration and who has to do it? The product database is the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling established under Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1369, which this regulation amended so that the database also supports market surveillance of tyre labelling. The supplier, meaning the EU manufacturer, the authorised representative of a non-EU manufacturer or the importer that places the tyre on the Union market, must enter the Annex VII information before placing a tyre produced after 1 May 2021 on the market: the public part holds the identification, the tyre type identifier, the label in electronic format, the classes and the sheet parameters, while the compliance part holds the equivalent tyre type identifiers, a description with dimensions, load index and speed rating, the test protocols, any special precautions, the measured technical parameters and the calculations. A change relevant to the label or the product information sheet creates a new tyre type, the end of placing on the market must be recorded, and the compliance information is kept for five years after the final unit. The QR code on the label leads to the tyre's entry. Distributors and vehicle dealers do not register anything. ### How must the label be shown in a shop, a workshop and an online listing? At the point of sale the tyre must bear the supplier's sticker in a clearly visible position and legible in its entirety with the product information sheet available, or, for a tyre from a batch of identical tyres, the printed batch label must be shown to the end-user and clearly displayed close to the tyre. Where the tyres offered are not visible to the end-user at the time of sale, which is the normal case in a workshop, the distributor gives the end-user a copy of the label before the sale. For internet sales the label goes close to the price indication, clearly visible, legible and proportionate to the Annex II size, with the product information sheet accessible and a nested display allowed; paper-based distance selling shows the label and points to a free access website for the sheet; telemarketing requires the classes to be read out and the website and printed copy to be offered. Visual advertisements for a specific tyre type must show the label, and close to the price where a price is given. ### How do authorities verify a tyre label, and what tolerances apply? Member States apply the Annex VI verification procedure for each of the Annex I parameters. A single tyre or tyre set is tested first; if the measured values meet the declared classes or the declared noise value within the verification tolerances, the label is considered compliant, and if they do not, three additional tyres or tyre sets are tested and their average is used. Where the classes or values come from type-approval test results under Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 or UNECE Regulation No 117, Member States may use measurement data from conformity of production tests under Regulation (EU) 2018/858. The tolerances are: the aligned rolling resistance coefficient must not exceed the upper limit of the declared class by more than 0,3 N per kN; the measured external rolling noise must not exceed the declared value N by more than 1 dB(A); the measured wet grip index must not be below the lower limit of the declared class; and the measured snow grip and ice grip values must not be below the minimum indices. Authorities may recover the cost of document inspection and physical testing from a non-compliant supplier. ### Who enforces tyre labelling in Denmark? The regulation is directly applicable, so there is no Danish executive order reproducing it. The product act, lov om produkter og markedsovervågning, consolidated as LBK nr. 22 of 8 January 2026, lists Regulation (EU) 2020/740 in section 2 as product area nr. 33 and the repealed Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 as nr. 32; both are product regulations under section 4, nr. 5 and traffic-related products under section 4, nr. 6. Two Danish authorities share the work, and which one you deal with depends on the provision. For Article 4(5) and Article 11(3) — submitting the declared values and the label before placing a tyre on the market, and having them verified — the Danish addressee is Færdselsstyrelsen, which is the approval authority for vehicles and their parts under the vehicle approval and inspection act and executive order nr. 787 of 18 June 2025, and therefore a national authority within Article 3, point (37) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858. Those articles address a relevant national authority, which they define by reference to the term 'national authority' in Article 3, point (37) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858: an approval authority or any other authority involved in and responsible for market surveillance, border control or registration in a Member State in respect of vehicles, systems, components, separate technical units, parts or equipment; the word 'relevant' is this regulation's own, and Regulation (EU) 2018/858 does not define a 'relevant national authority'. For general market surveillance and for penalties, Erhvervsstyrelsen is the control authority under section 9(1) of the product act, through its department Markedsovervågning, which has continued the tasks of Sikkerhedsstyrelsen since January 2026. Section 9(2) does not displace it here: it moves the control only where other legislation lays down rules on the prevention of specific risks, and a tyre label is an information requirement, not a risk rule. The transport minister's power in section 8 c to make rules on the control of labelling requirements for traffic-related products is exercised by Færdselsstyrelsen, but no executive order under that section covers tyre labelling, so the power is unused. In practice Færdselsstyrelsen publishes the Danish guidance on the tyre label and is the natural first contact. The toolkit is the product act's temporary prohibition, orders to warn, remedy, stop sales, withdraw, recall or destroy, warnings, prohibitions and fines rising to imprisonment of up to 2 years in aggravating circumstances. ### What is the Commission proposing to change? On 24 June 2026 the Commission adopted COM(2026) 565 final, a proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 and Regulation (EU) 2020/740 on simplification and better use of digital options for energy and tyre labelling, together with the implementation reports required by Article 19 of the energy labelling regulation and Article 15 of this regulation. For tyres the proposal would define EPREL, the tyre fitter and the nested display in Article 3, allow one label per batch of two or more identical tyres, require the Annex III and Annex VII information to be entered into EPREL with a link supplied alongside the label, extend the distributor duties to tyre fitters, require the EPREL registration number or a link or QR code in all tyre offers, visual advertisements and invoices, allow a simplified nested label format in catalogues and technical promotional material, delete the separate vehicle dealer article and the paper and telemarketing distance selling paragraphs, and let the Commission amend all of the technical annexes by delegated act. It is a proposal in the ordinary legislative procedure and changes nothing until it is adopted and published. ## What changed - 2026-09-13 (guidance): **Guide rebuilt on the SPEC-62 model from the consolidated text** — The guide was rewritten from the consolidated text of Regulation (EU) 2020/740 of 5 June 2020, Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009, Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Regulation (EU) 2019/2144, Regulation (EC) No 661/2009, Regulation (EU) 2018/858, Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, the Danish product act and the Færdselsstyrelsen delegation order: the eight Article 2(2) exclusions, the A to E and A to C scales with the rolling noise limit values, the Annex II label content and format, the Annex III product information sheet, the Annex IV promotional and website content, the Annex VI verification tolerances and the Annex VII database fields replace the earlier summary. Three corrections were made to the previous text: re-treaded tyres are inside the scope and not excluded, with their requirements pending a delegated act; importers are suppliers carrying the full Article 4 and Article 5 obligations, not a lighter verification role; and the ice grip pictogram is not limited to C1 tyres in the operative text. The Danish enforcement statement that Sikkerhedsstyrelsen is the competent authority for tyre labelling is corrected to the current setup under the product act and the Færdselsstyrelsen delegation order. - 2026-06-24 (guidance): **Commission proposes to simplify and digitalise the tyre label** — COM(2026) 565 final would amend Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 and Regulation (EU) 2020/740: it defines EPREL, the tyre fitter and the nested display, allows one label per batch of two or more identical tyres, moves the Annex III sheet content into EPREL with a link alongside the label, extends the distributor duties to tyre fitters, requires the EPREL registration number or a link or QR code in all offers, visual advertisements and invoices, allows a simplified nested label in catalogues and promotional material, deletes the vehicle dealer article and the paper and telemarketing distance selling paragraphs, and empowers the Commission to amend all technical annexes by delegated act. The implementation reports under Article 19 of the energy labelling regulation and Article 15 of this regulation were adopted with it. Nothing changes until the proposal is adopted. - 2024-02-17 (applies): **The Digital Services Act replaces the hosting provision Article 8 cites** — Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 applies from 17 February 2024 and its Article 89 deletes Articles 12 to 15 of Directive 2000/31/EC, so the reference in Article 8 to a service provider as referred to in Article 14 of that directive is construed as a reference to Article 6 of the Digital Services Act. The substance of the tyre labelling duty is unchanged: the hosting service provider must enable the display of the label and the product information sheet close to the price and inform the distributor of its obligation. - 2022-07-06 (applies): **Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 repealed; references read as Regulation (EU) 2019/2144** — Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 applies from 6 July 2022 and repeals Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 with effect from that date, with references construed as references to the new regulation. Article 3, point (1) of the tyre labelling regulation still cites Article 8(1) of the repealed regulation for the C1, C2 and C3 classes and Annex I, Part C still cites Part C of its Annex II for the rolling noise limit values LV; both are read against Regulation (EU) 2019/2144, and the technical provisions live in UNECE Regulation No 117, to which Annex I refers directly. - 2022-06-26 (applies): **Deadline for the re-treaded tyre requirements passes without a delegated act** — Article 13(2) required the Commission to adopt delegated acts by 26 June 2022 introducing information requirements for re-treaded tyres in the annexes, provided a suitable testing method was available. No such delegated act has been adopted and the regulation has never been amended, so re-treaded tyres remain inside the scope of Article 2(1) without any label, product information sheet or database duties. - 2021-11-30 (applies): **Deadline for registering tyres produced between 25 June 2020 and 30 April 2021** — Under Article 5(2) suppliers had to enter the Annex VII information for tyres produced between 25 June 2020 and 30 April 2021 into the product database by 30 November 2021. Tyres placed on the market before 25 June 2020 could be entered voluntarily under Article 5(3), and until an entry exists the supplier must make an electronic version of the technical documentation available within 10 working days of a request. - 2021-10-28 (amendment): **Corrigendum in OJ L 382 corrects the label format specifications** — The corrigendum corrects Annex II, point 2.2: the Verdana and Calibri point sizes for the trade name, tyre type identifier, tyre class, scale letters and class letters, the black outlines on the fuel efficiency and wet grip arrows, the dimensions and line weights of the fuel efficiency, wet grip, external rolling noise, snow grip and ice grip pictograms, the presentation of the A to C noise class range under the pictogram, and the point size of the regulation number. It is folded into the consolidated text as C3 and is the only corrigendum that changes what a label must look like. - 2021-05-01 (applies): **Regulation (EU) 2020/740 applies; Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 repealed** — From 1 May 2021 the label, product information sheet, point-of-sale, distance selling, advertising and promotional material duties apply and suppliers must enter the Annex VII information into the product database before placing a tyre produced after that date on the market. Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 is repealed with effect from the same date and references to it are construed as references to this regulation, read with the correlation table in Annex VIII. Member States had to notify the Commission of their penalty and enforcement rules by this date. - 2021-04-30 (amendment): **Corrigendum in OJ L 147 corrects the title block** — The corrigendum replaces the title block of the act, which now carries the words Text with EEA relevance under the title. It is folded into the consolidated text as C2 and does not change any obligation. - 2020-07-27 (amendment): **First corrigendum published in OJ L 241** — EUR-Lex records the corrigendum of 27 July 2020 as correcting the German, English and Italian language versions. The consolidated text lists it in the header as C1 but carries no C1 marker in the English body, so what it changed in the English text is not visible in the consolidation. - 2020-06-25 (in-force): **Regulation (EU) 2020/740 enters into force** — Adopted on 25 May 2020 on the legal bases of Article 114 and Article 194(2) TFEU and published in OJ L 177 on 5 June 2020, the regulation entered into force on the twentieth day after publication. Its obligations were deferred to 1 May 2021, and suppliers could from this date enter tyres already on the market into the product database voluntarily. ## TLR in plain terms The Tyre Labelling Regulation (TLR), formally Regulation (EU) 2020/740, gives buyers the same three graded facts about every tyre sold in the EU. It establishes a framework for harmonised information on tyre parameters through labelling, so that end-users can make an informed choice when purchasing tyres, in order to increase safety, protect health and improve the economic and environmental efficiency of road transport by promoting fuel-efficient, long-lasting and safe tyres with low noise levels (Art. 1). It applies to C1, C2 and C3 tyres placed on the market (Art. 2(1)), and an end-user is a consumer, a fleet manager or a road transport undertaking that buys or is expected to buy a tyre (Art. 3, point (19)). Unlike a CE-marking directive, TLR is not about whether a tyre may be sold. It is about what the buyer is told: the tyre label of Annex II, the product information sheet of Annex III, the entry in the EU product database EPREL and the way the classes follow the tyre through shops, websites, advertisements and catalogues. The tyre's technical safety requirements sit elsewhere, in the vehicle type-approval framework and in UNECE Regulation No 117, to which Annex I refers for the test methods. The regulation entered into force on 25 June 2020 and applies from 1 May 2021, the day it repealed Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 (Art. 17 and Art. 18). It has never been amended. Three corrigenda are recorded in the consolidated text: the one of 27 July 2020, which EUR-Lex records as correcting the German, English and Italian versions, the one of 30 April 2021, which corrected the title block, and the one of 28 October 2021, which corrected the Annex II format specifications of the label itself. On 24 June 2026 the Commission proposed to amend the regulation, but that proposal is not law. > **Official text** > Read the regulation on EUR-Lex: [consolidated text of 5 June 2020 (CELEX 02020R0740-20200605)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02020R0740-20200605), which incorporates the three corrigenda; the [original act (CELEX 32020R0740)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32020R0740) and the [document information page](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32020R0740) record the corrigenda and the repeal of Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009. ## Scope The regulation applies to C1, C2 and C3 tyres placed on the market (Art. 2(1)). Those are the classes of Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 661/2009: class C1 is designed primarily for M1, N1, O1 and O2 vehicles, that is passenger cars, vans and light trailers; class C2 is designed primarily for M2, M3, N, O3 and O4 vehicles with a load capacity index in single formation of 121 or less and a speed category symbol of N or higher; class C3 is designed primarily for the same vehicle categories with a load capacity index of 121 or less and a speed category symbol of M or lower, or with a load capacity index of 122 or more. A tyre may fall in more than one class if it meets the requirements of each (Regulation (EC) No 661/2009, Art. 8). That regulation was repealed by Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 with effect from 6 July 2022 and references to it are construed as references to that regulation. Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 does not itself restate the C1, C2 and C3 class definitions or the rolling noise limit values, so read literally the reference now points at provisions that no longer exist anywhere in enacted Union law. The workable reading, and the one the industry applies, is that the substance survives through UNECE Regulation No 117, which Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 makes mandatory through its Annex II and to which Annex I of this regulation refers directly for the test methods, and that the class definitions and limit values of the repealed regulation continue to supply the content until the Commission amends the annexes by delegated act under Article 13 (Regulation (EU) 2019/2144, Art. 18(1) and (2), Art. 19 and Annex II; Art. 3, point (1), Annex I, Part C, and Art. 13). Eight groups are excluded by Article 2(2), points (a) to (h): off-road professional tyres, which are special-use tyres used primarily in severe off-road conditions; tyres designed to be fitted only on vehicles registered for the first time before 1 October 1990; T-type temporary-use spare tyres, designed for use at higher inflation pressures than standard and reinforced tyres; tyres whose speed rating is less than 80 km per hour; tyres whose nominal rim diameter does not exceed 254 mm or is 635 mm or more; tyres fitted with additional devices to improve traction properties, such as studded tyres; tyres designed only to be fitted on vehicles intended exclusively for racing; and second-hand tyres, unless they are imported from a third country. An imported used tyre is therefore a fully labelled product, while the same tyre traded inside the Union is not. Re-treaded tyres, used tyres reconditioned by replacing the worn tread with new material, are the special case. They are inside the scope, but the second subparagraph of Article 2(1) provides that the requirements for them apply once a suitable testing method to measure their performance is available in accordance with Article 13. Article 13(2) obliged the Commission to adopt delegated acts introducing information requirements for re-treaded tyres by 26 June 2022, provided such a method existed. No delegated act has been adopted, so in practice a re-treaded tyre carries no label, no product information sheet and no database entry today, and the duty begins on the day the Commission introduces it. The duties fall on four groups. A supplier is a manufacturer established in the Union, an authorised representative of a manufacturer who is not established in the Union, or an importer, who places a product on the Union market (Art. 3, point (15)); the manufacturer and importer definitions are borrowed from Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 (Art. 3, points (12) and (13)). A distributor is anyone in the supply chain, other than the supplier, who makes a product available on the market (Art. 3, point (16)), which covers wholesalers, tyre shops, workshops and online shops. Vehicle suppliers and vehicle distributors have their own duty when tyres go with a new vehicle (Art. 7). Hosting service providers that allow tyres to be sold through their internet site have a narrow enabling duty (Art. 8). The regulation contains no company-size threshold: a one-shop tyre dealer and a national chain carry the same Article 6 duties. ## What you must do ### The label and its classes The tyre label is a graphic diagram, in printed or electronic form including as a sticker, carrying symbols that inform end-users about a tyre's performance on the Annex I parameters (Art. 3, point (5)). Its upper part carries the QR code, the supplier's trade name or trademark, the tyre type identifier, the tyre size designation with load-capacity index and speed category symbol under UNECE Regulation No 30 or No 54, the tyre class C1, C2 or C3, and the fuel efficiency and wet grip pictograms with their scales and the tyre's class. Its lower part carries the external rolling noise pictogram, the value in dB(A) rounded to the nearest integer and the noise class, the snow grip pictogram where the tyre meets the minimum snow grip index values of UNECE Regulation No 117, the ice grip pictogram where it meets the relevant minimum ice grip index values, and the serial number 2020/740 (Annex II, points 1.1 to 1.5). Fuel efficiency is graded A to E on the rolling resistance coefficient in N per kN, measured under Annex 6 to UNECE Regulation No 117 and aligned with the Annex V laboratory alignment procedure. The bands differ by tyre class: class A is 6,5 N per kN or less for C1, 5,5 for C2 and 4,0 for C3, and class E starts at 10,6, 9,1 and 7,1 respectively. Wet grip is graded A to E on the wet grip index G, calculated as the measured index G(T) minus 0,03 and measured under Annex 5 to UNECE Regulation No 117: class A needs G of at least 1,55 for C1, 1,40 for C2 and 1,25 for C3, and class E is 1,09, 0,94 and 0,79 or less. Where a tyre type belongs to more than one tyre class, the grading scale of the highest class is used (Annex I, Parts A and B). External rolling noise is both a number and a class. The measured value N in dB(A) is calculated under Annex 3 to UNECE Regulation No 117 and declared in decibels, and the class runs A to C against the limit value LV set out in Part C of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 661/2009: class A where N is at or below LV minus 3, class B where N is above LV minus 3 and at or below LV, and class C where N is above LV. Those limit values are 70 dB(A) for C1 tyres up to 185 mm nominal section width, 71 up to 245 mm, 72 up to 275 mm and 74 above, with 1 dB(A) added for snow, extra load or reinforced tyres; 72 dB(A) for normal C2 tyres and 73 for C2 traction tyres; and 73 and 75 dB(A) for normal and traction C3 tyres, with 2 dB(A) added for special use tyres and for snow tyres in the C2 traction category and 1 dB(A) for other C2 and C3 snow tyres (Regulation (EC) No 661/2009, Annex II, Part C, points 1.1 and 1.2). Snow grip is tested under Annex 7 to UNECE Regulation No 117, and a tyre meeting the minimum snow grip index values is classified as a tyre for use in severe snow conditions and carries the three-peak mountain snowflake pictogram. Ice grip is tested against reliable, accurate and reproducible methods, including international standards where appropriate, reflecting the generally recognised state of the art, and a tyre meeting the relevant minimum ice grip index values carries the ice grip pictogram; the operative text does not restrict the ice grip pictogram to any tyre class (Annex I, Parts D and E). The format is prescribed. The label is at least 75 mm wide and 110 mm high, printed larger only in proportion, on a 100 per cent white background, in Verdana and Calibri, with the CMYK colour codes for the EU logo, the energy logo, the A to E fuel efficiency arrows from 100,0,100,0 for class A to 0,100,100,0 for class E and the A to E wet grip arrows from 100,60,0,0 to 30,0,0,0, and with specified dimensions and line weights for each pictogram and the A to C noise class range centred under the loudspeaker (Annex II, point 2.2, as corrected on 28 October 2021). ### EPREL registration and the product information sheet Before placing a tyre produced after 1 May 2021 on the market, the supplier must enter the Annex VII information into the product database, the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling established under Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 (Art. 3, point (10), and Art. 5(1)). The public part holds the supplier's trade name or trademark, address, contact details and other legal identification, the tyre type identifier, the label in electronic format, the classes and other label parameters and the parameters of the product information sheet. The compliance part holds the tyre type identifiers of all equivalent tyre types already placed on the market, a general description with dimensions, load index and speed rating sufficient for unequivocal identification, the protocols of the testing, grading and measurement of the Annex I parameters, any specific precautions for assembly, installation, maintenance or testing, the measured technical parameters and the calculations performed with them (Annex VII). Three housekeeping rules follow. A tyre for which changes relevant to the label or the product information sheet are made is a new tyre type. The supplier must indicate in the database when it has ceased to place units of a tyre type on the market. After the final unit has been placed on the market, the compliance-part information is kept for five years (Art. 5(6) and (7)). Tyres produced between 25 June 2020 and 30 April 2021 had to be entered by 30 November 2021, tyres placed on the market before 25 June 2020 could be entered voluntarily, and until an entry exists the supplier must make an electronic version of the technical documentation available for inspection within 10 working days of a market surveillance authority's request (Art. 5(2), (3) and (4)). The product information sheet is a standard document, printed or electronic, included in the product brochure or other literature provided with the tyre. It carries the trade name or trademark of the supplier and of the manufacturer where they differ, the tyre type identifier, the size designation with load-capacity index and speed category symbol, the fuel efficiency class, the wet grip class, the external rolling noise class and value in decibels, an indication of whether the tyre is for use in severe snow conditions, an indication of whether it is an ice grip tyre, and the start and, once known, the end date of production of the tyre type as two digits for the week and two for the year (Annex III). ### Point of sale, distance selling and advertising Suppliers must accompany every C1, C2 and C3 tyre placed on the market, free of charge, either with an individual sticker label complying with Annex II and a product information sheet, or with one printed label and product information sheet per batch of one or more identical tyres (Art. 4(1)). Distributors then have to make that information reach the buyer. At the point of sale, which is any location where tyres are displayed or stored and offered for sale, including car show rooms offering loose tyres, displayed tyres must bear the sticker in a clearly visible position and legible in its entirety with the product information sheet available, including in printed form on request; for a tyre from a batch, the printed label must be shown to the end-user and clearly displayed close to the tyre before the sale (Art. 3, point (6), and Art. 6(1)). Where the tyres offered for sale are not visible to the end-user at the time of sale, the normal situation in a workshop, the distributor must give the end-user a copy of the label before the sale (Art. 6(4)). Distance selling is covered in three forms. For tyres sold or offered on the internet the label goes close to the price indication, clearly visible, legible and proportionate to the size specified in point 2.1 of Annex II, with the product information sheet accessible; a nested display, a visual interface where the label is reached by a click, roll-over or tactile expansion, is allowed (Art. 4(2) and Art. 6(7)). Paper-based distance selling must show the label and let end-users reach the product information sheet through a free access website and request a printed copy (Art. 6(5)). Telemarketing requires the distributor to tell end-users the class for each label parameter and to tell them the label and the sheet are available on a free access website and in print on request (Art. 6(6)). Any visual advertisement for a specific tyre type must show the tyre label, and where the advertisement indicates the price the label must be close to the price indication; online, a nested display is allowed. This duty falls on suppliers and distributors alike (Art. 4(3) and Art. 6(2)). Where end-users intend to acquire a new vehicle, vehicle suppliers and vehicle distributors must provide them, before the sale, with the tyre label for the tyres offered with or fitted on the vehicle and any relevant technical promotional material, and ensure the product information sheet is available (Art. 7). A hosting service provider that allows tyres to be sold through its internet site must enable the display of the label and the product information sheet close to the price indication and inform the distributor of the display obligation (Art. 8); since 17 February 2024 the reference to Article 14 of Directive 2000/31/EC is read as a reference to Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065. ### Technical promotional material and website statements Technical promotional material is documentation, printed or electronic, produced by a supplier to supplement advertising material with the Annex IV information (Art. 3, point (7)). Where it concerns a specific tyre type, both suppliers and distributors must display the tyre label of that type and include the Annex IV information (Art. 4(4) and Art. 6(3)). Annex IV sets the order and the quality bar: the fuel efficiency class as a letter A to E, the wet grip class as a letter A to E, the external rolling noise class and measured value in dB, an indication of whether the tyre is for use in severe snow conditions and an indication of whether it is an ice grip tyre, easy to read, easy to understand, and stating the range between the lowest and highest performing tyre types where types within a tyre family are classified differently by dimension or other characteristics (Annex IV, points 1 and 2). Suppliers must also publish on their websites a link to the relevant Commission webpage dedicated to the regulation, an explanation of the label pictograms and a statement that actual fuel savings and road safety depend heavily on driver behaviour, in particular that eco-driving can significantly reduce fuel consumption, that tyre pressure needs to be checked regularly to optimise fuel efficiency and wet grip, and that stopping distances must always be respected. Suppliers and distributors must, where relevant, publish a statement that ice grip tyres are specifically designed for road surfaces covered with ice and compact snow, should only be used in very severe climate conditions, and could perform sub-optimally in less severe conditions, in particular for wet grip, handling and wear (Annex IV, points 3 and 4). ### Obligations by role Suppliers test and grade each tyre type to Annex I, produce the Annex II label and the Annex III product information sheet, accompany every tyre or batch with them free of charge, enter the Annex VII information into EPREL before placing on the market, submit the values, the additional declared performance information and the label to the relevant national authority beforehand, keep the technical documentation ready within 10 working days until the database entry exists, make documentation available to other Member States' authorities or accredited bodies on request, ensure the accuracy of every label and sheet, cooperate with market surveillance authorities and remedy non-compliance immediately, and refrain from providing or displaying misleading labels, marks, symbols or inscriptions or labels that mimic the EU tyre label (Art. 4 and Art. 5). Because a supplier is an EU manufacturer, an authorised representative or an importer, an importer carries the whole of that list, not a lighter verification role. Distributors display the label at the point of sale, hand over a copy where the tyres are not visible, show the label close to the price online and in paper distance selling, read the classes out in telemarketing, show it in visual advertising and include the Annex IV information in technical promotional material, and publish the ice grip statement where relevant (Art. 6 and Annex IV). Vehicle suppliers and vehicle distributors provide the label and the technical promotional material and ensure the sheet is available before a new vehicle is sold (Art. 7). Hosting service providers enable the display and inform the distributor (Art. 8). ### Testing, verification and tolerances The information provided under Articles 4, 6 and 7 must be obtained with the testing methods referred to in Annex I and the Annex V laboratory alignment procedure for rolling resistance (Art. 9). Member States apply the Annex VI verification procedure for each parameter when assessing whether the declared classes conform (Art. 10). Under Annex VI a single tyre or tyre set is tested first; if the measured values meet the declared classes or the declared noise value within the verification tolerances, the label is considered compliant, and if they do not, three additional tyres or tyre sets are tested and their average is used. Where the classes or values derive from type-approval test results under Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 or UNECE Regulation No 117, Member States may use measurement data from conformity of production tests carried out under Regulation (EU) 2018/858, assessed against the same tolerances. The tolerances are: the aligned rolling resistance coefficient must not exceed the upper limit of the declared class by more than 0,3 N per kN; the measured external rolling noise must not exceed the declared value N by more than 1 dB(A); the measured wet grip index G(T) must not fall below the lower limit of the declared class; and the measured snow grip and ice grip values must not fall below the minimum indices (Annex VI). ## Enforcement and penalties Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 applies to the tyres covered by the regulation and the delegated acts adopted under it (Art. 12(1)). Member States must ensure their national market surveillance authorities establish a system of routine and ad hoc inspections of points of sale (Art. 11(4)), and the national market surveillance strategies drawn up under Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 must include actions to ensure effective enforcement of tyre labelling (Art. 12(3)). The Commission encourages cooperation and information exchange between authorities, in particular by involving the Administrative Cooperation Group for the Labelling of Tyres more closely (Art. 12(2)), and authorities may recover the costs of document inspection and physical product testing from a supplier that does not comply (Art. 12(4)). Label accuracy has its own route. The supplier submits the values used to determine the classes, any additional declared performance information and the label to a relevant national authority before the tyre types are placed on the market, so the authority can verify the label (Art. 4(5)). Article 4(5) and Article 11(3) define that authority by reference to the term 'national authority' in Article 3, point (37) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858: an approval authority or any other authority involved in and responsible for market surveillance, border control or registration in a Member State in respect of vehicles, systems, components, separate technical units, parts or equipment. The word 'relevant' is this regulation's own; Regulation (EU) 2018/858 does not define a 'relevant national authority'. Where that authority has sufficient reason to believe a supplier has not ensured the accuracy of the label, it verifies the declared classes and additional information against the values and documentation submitted (Art. 11(3)). Member States may not impede the placing on the market or putting into service of compliant tyres (Art. 11(1)), and where they grant incentives for tyres, those may target only class A or class B tyres for rolling resistance or wet grip, with taxation and fiscal measures not counting as incentives (Art. 11(2)). Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 is point 34 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and point 14 of its Annex II, the list of Union harmonisation legislation without provisions on penalties; both entries are read as this regulation since Article 17 construes references to the repealed act as references to Regulation (EU) 2020/740, which does contain a penalty provision of its own in Article 11(5). Tyre labelling is not in the Article 4(5) list of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, so the separate duty to have a responsible economic operator established in the Union does not arise from that regulation; a supplier is in any case an EU manufacturer, an authorised representative or an importer established in the Union. Penalties are national. Member States lay down the rules on penalties and enforcement mechanisms for infringements of the regulation and of its delegated acts, make sure they are implemented, and had to notify the Commission by 1 May 2021 and without delay of any later amendment; the penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive (Art. 11(5)). In Denmark the regulation is enforced through the product act, lov om produkter og markedsovervågning, consolidated as LBK nr. 22 of 8 January 2026. Section 2 lists Regulation (EU) 2020/740 as product area nr. 33 and the repealed Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 as nr. 32, and both are product regulations under section 4, nr. 5 and traffic-related products under section 4, nr. 6. Two Danish authorities share the work, and which one you deal with depends on the provision. For Article 4(5) and Article 11(3) — submitting the declared values and the label before placing a tyre on the market, and having them verified — the Danish addressee is Færdselsstyrelsen, which is the approval authority for vehicles and their parts under the vehicle approval and inspection act and executive order nr. 787 of 18 June 2025, and therefore a national authority within Article 3, point (37) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858. For general market surveillance and for penalties, Erhvervsstyrelsen is the control authority under section 9(1) of the product act, through its department Markedsovervågning, which has continued the tasks of Sikkerhedsstyrelsen since January 2026. Section 9(2) does not displace it here: it moves the control only where other legislation lays down rules on the prevention of specific risks, and a tyre label is an information requirement, not a risk rule. The transport minister's power in section 8 c to make rules on the control of labelling requirements for traffic-related products is exercised by Færdselsstyrelsen, but no executive order under that section covers tyre labelling, so the power is unused. In practice Færdselsstyrelsen publishes the Danish guidance on the tyre label and is the natural first contact (product act, section 8 c and section 9(1) to (3); executive order nr. 787 of 18 June 2025, § 5 and § 11). The Danish toolkit is the same for tyre labelling as for other product areas: a temporary prohibition on delivery, marketing, display or other making available where the product may present a risk (section 13); orders to warn users of the risks, stop misleading marketing, remedy the non-compliance, stop sales or delivery, withdraw the product effectively and immediately, recall it from users or destroy it safely, and warnings (section 14); prohibitions on placing on the market, making available, delivery or putting into use, with an order to destroy (section 16); and closure of a case with guidance, a prohibition, an order or a warning (section 14 a). A tyre that does not comply with the regulation puts the economic operator in breach of section 5(1)(2) of the product act, which requires products to comply with the product regulations and which section 3 a does not switch off for traffic-related products. That breach is punished under section 37(1)(1) with a fine, unless a higher penalty is due under other legislation, and the penalty can rise to imprisonment of up to 2 years in aggravating circumstances — danger to safety or health, an accident causing serious injury or death, repetition, or a systematic breach for gain — because tyre labelling is product area nr. 33, inside the band the escalation covers. Failing to comply with the authority's decisions and evading its control are punished on the same scale. Companies can be held criminally liable under chapter 5 of the criminal code. The act also lets the business minister set penalties for the product regulations by executive order, but section 3 a disapplies that power to traffic-related products and no such order has been made for tyre labelling (section 3 a, section 5(1)(2) and section 37). ## How Conphora helps Conphora monitors the Tyre Labelling Regulation, the delegated acts that would bring re-treaded tyres and new parameters into the label, the Commission's 2026 simplification proposal and the Danish product act, and maps your tyre range against the Article 2 exclusions, the C1, C2 and C3 classes, the Annex I grading scales and the Annex VI tolerances. It flags gaps in the EPREL entry, the label content and format, the product information sheet, the point-of-sale and online display and the Annex IV promotional and website content before an inspection of a point of sale finds them, keeps the evidence and the five-year records in one place, and alerts you when a parameter, a test method, an authority or the regulation itself changes. 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[Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance and compliance of products (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020) - [Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 setting a framework for energy labelling, which establishes EPREL (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32017R1369) - [Regulation (EU) 2018/858 on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018R0858) - [Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, the Digital Services Act (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32022R2065) - [COM(2026) 565 final, proposal on simplification and better use of digital options for energy and tyre labelling (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52026PC0565) - [Tyres, the EU tyre label and the supplier and dealer duties (European Commission, Energy Efficient Products)](https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/tyres_en) - [EPREL information for product suppliers (European Commission, Energy Efficient Products)](https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/suppliers_en) - [EPREL, the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (European Commission)](https://eprel.ec.europa.eu/screen/home) - [Bekendtgørelse af lov om produkter og markedsovervågning, LBK nr. 22 af 8. januar 2026 (Retsinformation)](https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22) - [Bekendtgørelse nr. 787 af 18. juni 2025 om Færdselsstyrelsens opgaver og beføjelser samt klageadgang (Retsinformation)](https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/787) - [Sikkerhedsstyrelsen, en del af Erhvervsstyrelsen from January 2026 (Erhvervsstyrelsen)](https://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/sikkerhedsstyrelsen-en-del-af-erhvervsstyrelsen) *This guide is for general information and is not legal advice.* ## Sources - [Regulation (EU) 2020/740 on the labelling of tyres, consolidated text of 5 June 2020 (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02020R0740-20200605) - [Regulation (EU) 2020/740 as published in OJ L 177, 5 June 2020 (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32020R0740) - [Document information, dates, corrigenda and relationships for CELEX 32020R0740 (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32020R0740) - [Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 on tyre labelling, repealed from 1 May 2021 (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009R1222) - [Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 on the general safety of motor vehicles, with the tyre classes in Article 8(1) and the rolling noise limit values in Annex II, Part C, repealed from 6 July 2022 (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009R0661) - [Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 on the general safety of motor vehicles, repealing Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R2144) - [Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance and compliance of products (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020) - [Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 setting a framework for energy labelling, which establishes the EPREL product database in Article 12 (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32017R1369) - [Regulation (EU) 2018/858 on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles, whose Article 3, point (37) defines the national authority (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018R0858) - [Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, the Digital Services Act, whose Article 89 deletes Articles 12 to 15 of Directive 2000/31/EC (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32022R2065) - [COM(2026) 565 final, proposal amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 and Regulation (EU) 2020/740 as regards simplification and better use of digital options for energy and tyre labelling (EUR-Lex)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52026PC0565) - [Tyres, the EU tyre label and the supplier and dealer duties (European Commission, Energy Efficient Products)](https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/tyres_en) - [EPREL information for product suppliers (European Commission, Energy Efficient Products)](https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/suppliers_en) - [EPREL, the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (European Commission)](https://eprel.ec.europa.eu/screen/home) - [Bekendtgørelse af lov om produkter og markedsovervågning, LBK nr. 22 af 8. januar 2026 (Retsinformation)](https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22) - [Bekendtgørelse nr. 787 af 18. juni 2025 om Færdselsstyrelsens opgaver og beføjelser samt klageadgang (Retsinformation)](https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/787) - [Sikkerhedsstyrelsen, en del af Erhvervsstyrelsen from January 2026 (Erhvervsstyrelsen)](https://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/sikkerhedsstyrelsen-en-del-af-erhvervsstyrelsen) _Reviewed 2026-09-24 by Conphora compliance team_