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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.