Working Party on Lighting and Light-signalling | Session 75 | 5-8 Apr 2016
Geneva
Agenda Item 7. (i)
Regulation No. 53 (Installation of lighting and light-signalling devices for L3 vehicles)

37. The expert from GTB proposed to allow the activation of additional lighting units, in conjunction with the driving beam, to improve illumination when the motorcycle is banking (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRE/2016/15). GRE adopted the proposal and decided to submit it to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration and vote at their November 2016 sessions as draft Supplement 19 to the 01 series of amendments and draft Supplement 1 to the 02 series of amendments to Regulation No. 53.

38. The expert from IMMA recalled their earlier proposal to allow for the use of different brake lamp activation methods and to align the brake lamp provisions with those applicable for four-wheelers (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRE/2015/42) and requested GRE to postpone consideration of this issue to the next session.

39. The expert from Japan proposed to automatically switch from the daytime running lamp (DRL) to the headlamp at night. The experts from Austria, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, UK and IMMA commented on the proposal. GRE encouraged all experts to study the proposal and to provide their comments, if any, by the end of June 2016. GRE also invited the expert from Japan to take these comments into consideration and to submit an official document to the next session.

Documentation
GRE-75-08 Proposal for the 03 series of amendments to Regulation No. 53 (Japan)
GRE-75-09 Research on Daytime Running Lamps of Motorcycles (Japan)
GRE/2015/42 Proposal for Supplement 18 to the 01 series of amendments to Regulation No. 53 (IMMA)
GRE/2016/15 Proposal for Supplement 19 to the 01 series of Regulation No. 53 (GTB)