Working Party on Brakes and Running Gear | Session 75 | 17-19 Sep 2013
Geneva
Agenda Item 7. (b)
Regulation No. 117 (Tyre rolling noise and wet grip adhesion)

26. The expert from ETRTO presented GRRF-75-02, justifying the wet grip limit values for C3 tyres specified in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/66. Following a tour de table, the Chair noted that half the experts were in favour of amending the proposed limits for normal and traction tyres whilst retaining the proposed limits for snow and special use tyres, while the other half were in favour of maintaining those proposed in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/66. The GRRF Vice-Chair volunteered to lead a discussion with interested experts on a proposal for GRRF at its next session. GRRF preferred to postpone the vote by WP.29 and AC.1 on ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/66 until their June 2014 sessions.

27. The expert from the Russian Federation introduced a proposal for corrections in the Russian version of UN Regulation No. 117 with the aim of aligning the English and Russian texts (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRRF/2013/17). GRRF adopted the proposal and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their March 2014 sessions as draft Corrigendum 3 to 02 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 117 (Russian text only).

28. The expert from ETRTO introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRRF/2013/18, proposing to correct the text of UN Regulation No. 117. GRRF adopted this proposal and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their March 2014 sessions as draft Corrigendum 4 to 02 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 117.

29. The expert from ETRTO withdrew ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRRF/2013/30 and, as a result, the experts from the Russian Federation withdrew GRB-58-13. The expert from Canada sought for information from GRRF on the temperature to test snow tyres. The expert from IMMA offered to provide information to Canada in a bilateral discussion.

Documentation
GRB-58-13 Changes to proposal for Supplement 6 to the 02 series of amendments to UN R117 (Russia)
GRRF-75-02 Wet grip for C3 tyres: Minimum type-approval level (ETRTO)
GRRF/2013/17 Proposal for a corrigendum to the Russian-language text of UN Regulation No. 117 (Russia)
GRRF/2013/18 Proposal for corrigendum to UN Regulation No. 117 (ETRTO)
GRRF/2013/30 Proposal for amendments to Regulation No. 117 (ETRTO)
WP.29/2013/66 Proposal for Supplement 6 to the 02 series of amendments to Regulation No. 117