The Secretary introduced this item by pointing out that the original Russian draft text contains a dozen of annexes providing detailed provisions, and that it could be reasonable to replace them by references to the relevant standards and regulations.

Russia was open to refer to e.g. ISO for certain items, but thought that some provisions should be totally included in the regulation because they are not described anywhere else. The European Commission found that when there are existing standards, a reference to those is favoured.

The UK pointed out that any reference to a standard should be a dated reference such that it is fixed. For the content, the expert raised the potential problem of copyright.

OICA acknowledged the problem and informed that references to existing standards do already exist in numerous regulations. Under the vehicle manufacturer point of view, too many details in the provisions would lead to the necessity of regular extensions of approvals in case a little change in the technology is done in a vehicle type. In addition, some references to parts of standards should be possible.

Conclusion: AECS regulation to contain as much as possible references to existing standards (with fixed dates) rather than detailed technical provisions, for the items where it is relevant.