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This document specifies the minimum requirements for inspection at time of filling of battery-vehicles and multiple-element gas containers (MEGCs) for compressed and liquefied gases.

The elements of battery vehicles and MEGCs covered by this document are:

—   seamless steel or seamless aluminium alloy cylinders or tubes, and

—   composite cylinders or tubes (hoop-wrapped or fully-wrapped)

with a water capacity up to 3000 l.

This document is not applicable to MEGCs using tanks as elements.

This document is not applicable to the automotive components of a battery trailer.

Unless noted by exception the use of the word “cylinders” in this document refers to both cylinders and tubes.

NOTE          Acetylene battery-vehicles are covered by EN 13720.