Working Party on General Safety | Session 123 | 28 Mar-1 Apr 2022
Geneva
Agenda Item 5.
UN Regulation No. 34 (Prevention of fire risk)

31. The expert from OICA introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2022/19, to avoid double approval with regard to rear impact by removing the impact tests for M1 and N1 vehicles from UN Regulation No. 34 for those vehicles that are also in the scope of UN Regulation No. 153 (Fuel system integrity and electric power train safety at rear-end collision). At the same time, she introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2021/19/Rev.1 that removes categories M1 and N1 from the scope to avoid crash test duplications with UN Regulations Nos. 94, 95 and 153 as a new series 04 of amendments to the UN Regulation No. 34.

32. GRSG adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2022/19, not amended. The secretariat was requested to submit the proposal as draft Supplement 3 to the 03 series of amendment to UN Regulation No. 34 (Prevention of fire risks), for consideration and vote at the November 2022 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1.

33. GRSG adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2021/19/Rev.1, as amended below. The secretariat was requested to submit the proposal as draft 04 series of amendment to UN Regulation No. 34 (Prevention of fire risks), for consideration and vote at the November 2022 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1. It was further agreed to keep the document submitted to WP.29 on the agenda of the October 2022 session of GRSG for further revision.
Paragraph 1.2., amend to read:

“1.2. Part II (vacant) and/or rear collision.

Documentation
GRSG/2021/19/Rev.1 UN R34: Revised proposal for 04 series of amendments (OICA)
GRSG/2022/19 UN R34: Proposal for Supplement 3 to the 03 Series of Amendments (OICA)