World Forum for the Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations | Session 171 | 14-17 Mar 2017
Geneva

Session scheduled to coincide with the Geneva Motor Show. Please note that informal documents WP.29-171-35 and WP.29-171-36 have not been made available.

Agenda Item 3.5.3.
Working Party on Brakes and Running Gear (GRRF) (Eighty-third session, 23-27 January 2017)

44. The Chair of GRRF (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) reported on the results achieved during the eighty-third session of GRRF (for more details see the report of the session ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRRF/83).

45. The GRRF chair informed that GRRF reconfirmed ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2017/10 proposing a new series of amendments to Regulation No. 79 (Steering equipment) with provisions for Corrective Steering Function (CSF) and Automatically Commanded Steering Function (ACSF), but proposed amendments and clarifications to the document as reproduced in WP.29-171-06. He highlighted that some dates were still in square brackets.

46. The GRRF chair reported that GRRF agreed to extend the mandate of Regulation No. 131 on Advanced Emergency Braking Systems (AEBS) on vehicles of categories M1 and N1. He added that GRRF requested the consent of WP.29 for the IWG on AEBS developing the corresponding provisions.

47. WP.29 endorsed the request of GRRF to reinstate the IWG on AEBS.

48. The GRRF chair reported that the mandate of the IWG on Modular Vehicle Combinations was expiring and informed about the need to extend the mandate of the IWG. WP.29 endorsed that request and agreed to extend the mandate of the IWG until February 2019.

49. The GRRF chair informed that GRRF reviewed WP.29-168-16 and addressed it at its January 2017 session. He added that the corresponding proposal for amendments to Regulation No. 13 would be submitted for consideration and vote at a next session of WP.29.

Documentation
WP.29-168-16 Proposal from WP.15 to amend Regulation No. 13
WP.29-171-06 Proposal of amendments to the draft Supplement 6 to the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 79
WP.29/2017/10 Proposal for Supplement 6 to the 01 series of amendments to Regulation No. 79