To effectively address the problem of air pollutant emissions from motorcycles, and also to improve the quality and management of motorcycle emission testing stations, on 8 April 2016 the EPA announced amendments to the Regulations Governing the Establishment and Management of Motorcycle Air Pollutant Emissions Testing Stations. To effectively address the problem of motorcycle pollutant emissions, since 1998 the EPA has been enforcing regular emissions testing for motorcycles in use. In accordance with the stipulations of the Air Pollution Control Act, on 21 May 2003 the EPA promulgated the Regulations Governing the Establishment and Management of Motorcycle Air Pollutant Emissions Testing Stations. As of the end of December 2015, 2,791 motorcycle emission testing stations had been established and subsidies had been handed out for testing 7.2 million motorcycles. On average, each station tests 2,581 motorcycles annually, indicating that the system is well-established and running well. After reviewing the administration of the testing system – such as certification procedures for testing station equipment, quality control mechanisms for testing instruments, and penalty regulations – and taking into account advances in emission testing technology, the EPA decided that there was room for more efficiency and precision. Thus, in order to improve overall testing quality, the revisions were formulated. The name of the regulations was also changed to Regulations for the Establishment and Management of In-use Motorcycle Air Pollutant Emissions Testing Stations in accordance with the amendments made to the wording of the Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act. The main points of the amendments are as follows: 1. The specifications for the computer system used by the motorcycle exhaust emission testing stations have been added. 2. The regulations governing the documents required for standard gas accreditation application have been revised. 3. Provisions have been added stipulating that information for motorcycle emission testing station certification as well as the person responsible for the station cannot be changed without prior permission from the relevant local government competent authority. 4. Lengths of time for which certifications can be extended have been adjusted. Requirements for additional documents for extension applications have been added as well. 5. The times and places emission tests can be conducted have been revised. It has also been added that operators of mobile testing stations will henceforth need approval of testing times and locations from their local competent authorities. 6. Regulations have been added authorizing relevant competent authorities to enforce testing, repeat testing, and payment of expenses related to testing station emission analysis instruments that are consistently below standard or that produce abnormal readings. 7. Two new reasons for revoking the certification of testing stations have been added. One is changing the person responsible without approval from the relevant competent authority. The other is accumulating more than one year of approved temporary suspensions of testing services within the period that the certification is valid. 8. Fines have been added for testing premises that are not tidy. In addition, if the testing station mistypes information on tested motorcycles but does not report errors to the competent authority more than five times (instead of the original ten times) in a single fiscal year, it will be fined NT$15,000. 9. The period for which documents for the motorcycle emission testing fee appropriation application must be kept has been adjusted to two years. Meanwhile, procedures for recovering over-issued subsidies have been added.