Working Party on General Safety | Session 105 | 8-11 Oct 2013
Geneva
Agenda Item 9.
Regulation No. 110 (CNG vehicles)

37. The expert from CLEPA presented ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2013/25. GRSG adopted the document and requested the secretariat to submit the proposing type approval provisions for fuel selection systems amendments to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their March 2014 sessions as draft Supplement 2 to the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 110.

38. On the same subject than that mentioned under para. 35 above (new provisions for “valve control at stop-start”), the expert from CLEPA introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2013/26 proposing similar amendments to UN Regulation No. 110. GRSG adopted the document, as reproduced in Annex III of the session report, and requested the secretariat to submit the amendments to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their March 2014 sessions as part (see para. 37 above) of draft Supplement 2 to the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 110.

39. Referring to ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/101, the expert from the Netherlands introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2013/28 clarifying the type approval provisions for vehicles equipped with Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) propulsion systems. GRSG noted a list of editorial corrections (GRSG-105-02) to be inserted into ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/101. GRSG adopted the proposed amendments as reproduced in WP.29-161-05 and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their November 2013 sessions as a Corrigendum to ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2013/101 (draft Supplement 1 to the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 110).

40. Recalling the severe fire accident in October 2012 of a bus equipped with a CNG propulsion system, the expert from the Netherlands informed GRSG that a detailed investigation report of the Dutch Safety Board is now publicly available. He presented GRSG-105-10 proposing preventive measures for such fire accidents, including a first draft of a number of amendments to UN Regulations Nos. 107, 110 and 118. GRSG welcomed the information and agreed to resume consideration on this subject at the next session of GRSG on the basis of revised official documents to be submitted in due time by the expert from the Netherlands.

41. The expert from Germany announced to prepare, for the next session of GRSG, a set of draft amendments to UN Regulation No. 110 preventing the LNG container from being overfilled and requiring the installed of a safety system against flooding by LNG (GRSG-105-31). GRSG noted that these issues had already been discussed by the LNG Task Force.

Documentation
GRSG-105-02 Corrigendum to draft Supplement 1 to the 01 series of amendments to Regulation No. 110
GRSG-105-10 Discussion paper proposing new requirements for natural-gas powered buses (Netherlands)
GRSG-105-29 Proposal to amend the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 110 (Italy)
GRSG-105-31 Comments on the draft Supplement 1 to the 01 series of amendments to Regulation No. 110 (Germany)
GRSG/84 Report of the GRSG on its 105th session
GRSG/2013/25 Proposal for amendments to Regulation No. 110 (CLEPA)
GRSG/2013/26 Proposal for amendments to Regulation No. 110 (CLEPA)
GRSG/2013/28 Proposal for amendments to document WP.29/2013/101 (Netherlands)
WP.29-161-05 Corrigendum to draft Supplement 1 to the 01 series of amendments to Regulation No. 110
WP.29/2013/101 Proposal for Supplement 1 to the 01 series of amendments to Regulation No. 110