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 3.5.4.
Working Party on Noise (GRB) (Sixty-fifth session, 15-17 February 2017)

50. The Chair of GRB (France) reported on the results achieved during the sixty-fifth session of GRB (for more details see the report of the session ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRB/63).

51. In particular, the GRB chair reported that GRB had adopted amendment proposals to the Additional Sound Emission Provisions (ASEP) in Regulation No. 51 (Noise of M and N categories of vehicles) and that these amendments would be submitted to WP.29 and AC.1 in June 2017.

52. The GRB chair further informed that GRB had agreed to draft a new Regulation on reversing alarms and that the main issues for the future Regulation would be its scope (categories of vehicles), the possible existence of a pause switch and the alarm sound composition (sound levels and frequencies).

Documentation
GRB/63 Report of the GRB on its 65th session