Working Party on General Safety | Session 112 | 24-28 Apr 2017
Geneva

The deadline for submission of official documents to the UNECE secretariat is 27 January 2017 (twelve weeks prior to the session).

Agenda Item 5.
Regulation No. 46

16. The expert from Japan, chairing the new Informal Working Group (IWG) on awareness of Vulnerable Road Users proximity in low speed manoeuvres (VRU-Proxi), reported on the progress made by the group during its meeting in Brussels on 23-24 March 2017 (GRSG-112-13). GRSG welcomed the updated draft terms of reference and rules of procedure for the IWG on VRU-Proxi (GRSG-112-14-Rev.1 superseding GRSG-111-29). GRSG noted the overlap of the IWG activities with agenda item 16 on a new draft UN Regulation on Blind Spot Information Systems (BSIS). GRSG underlined the urgent need to adopt the new UN Regulation and agreed that the IWG on VRU-Proxi shall consider ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2017/11 (tabled by Germany) as a first priority at its forthcoming meeting, scheduled to be held in Paris on 3-4 July 2017. In this respect, GRSG adopted the terms of reference and rules of procedure for the IWG on VRU-Proxi as reproduced in Annex III to this report. The GRSG Chair announced his intention to inform WP.29 at its June 2017 session about the terms of reference of the above-mentioned IWG.

17. Recalling the discussion in GRSG at its previous session, the expert from Germany introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2017/2 proposing to correct the provisions of paragraph 16.1.3.1. on the magnification factor. He also introduced GRSG-112-30 correcting a reference error in paragraph 6.3.3.2. The expert from France proposed to insert an editorial amendment to the communication form in Annex 4 (GRSG-112-08). GRSG adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2017/2 as amended below and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and AC.1 as draft Supplement 5 to the 04 series of amendment to UN Regulation No. 46 for consideration at their November 2017 sessions.

Paragraph 6.3.3.2., correct the reference to “paragraph 6.1.3.” to read “paragraph 6.1.1.3.”.
Annex 4, item 4., amend to read:
“4. Category of vehicle: (M1, M2, M3, N1, N2 ≤ 7.5 t, N2 > 7.5 t, N3, L) 2

18. The expert from Germany sought the advice of GRSG on the default mode in case of dual function systems for camera-monitor systems (CMS) which can be set by the driver. The expert from OICA stated that the former IWG on CMS did not discuss the default mode for such systems. GRSG invited the expert from Germany to prepare a proposal for consideration at the next session of GRSG in October 2017.

Documentation
GRSG-111-29 Draft of Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure of the informal group of GRSG on close proximity vision and obstacle detection systems (Japan)
GRSG-112-08 Proposal for Supplement 5 to the 04 series of amendments to Regulation No. 46 (France)
GRSG-112-13 Draft Report of the 1st Session GRSG informal group on awareness of Vulnerable Road Users proximity in low speed manoeuvres
GRSG-112-14/Rev.1 Draft of Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure of the informal group of GRSG on awareness of VRU proximity in low speed manoeuvres
GRSG-112-30 Proposal for a Corrigendum to the 04 series of amendments to Regulation No. 46 (Germany)
GRSG-112-30 Proposal for a Corrigendum to the 04 series of amendments to Regulation No. 46 (Germany)
GRSG-112-30 Proposal for a Corrigendum to the 04 series of amendments to Regulation No. 46 (Germany)
GRSG/2017/2 Proposal for Supplement 5 to the 04 series of amendments to Regulation No. 46 (Germany)
GRSG/2017/2 Proposal for Supplement 5 to the 04 series of amendments to Regulation No. 46 (Germany)
GRSG/2017/11 Proposal for a new Regulation on uniform provisions concerning the approval of motor vehicles with regard to the Blind Spot Information System (Germany)