Working Party on Pollution and Energy | Session 70 | 13-16 Jan 2015
Geneva

The 70th GRPE session is scheduled to be held in Geneva, starting on Monday, 12 January 2015, from 2.30 p.m. until Friday, 16 January 2015, at 12.30 p.m., subject to the confirmation by the secretariat (to be confirmed via the eventual publication of document GRPE-70-01). Interpretation would be provided from 13 January to 16 January 2015.

Agenda Item 4. (b)
GTR Nos. 4, 5 and 10

22. The Chair of GRPE recalled the decision of WP.29 to defer the vote of the Executive Committee of the 1998 Agreement (AC.3) on ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2014/84 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2014/85 at its March 2015 session.

23. The expert from the USA presented GRPE-70-15 reporting on the activities of his Country on a correlation study comparing results obtained according to Annex 9 and those obtained according to Annex 10 (in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2014/84). He offered to share the outcome of this study with GRPE in June 2015. GRPE welcomed this offer and agreed to further exchange information on the emissions of heavy duty vehicles equipped with hybrid powertrains and their environmental performance evaluation.

Documentation
GRPE-70-15 Comparison of Heavy Duty Hybrid Test Procedures Drafted in GTR No. 4 (USA and US EPA)
WP.29/2014/84 Proposal for draft Amendment 3 to Global Technical Regulation No. 4
WP.29/2014/85 Proposal for the Technical Report on the development of Amendment 3 to Global Technical Regulation No. 4