GAR | WP.29-173 Agenda

Document Title: Proposal for a new UN Regulation on Accident Emergency Call Systems
Document Reference Number: WP.29/2017/132
Meeting Session: 173rd WP.29 session (14-17 Nov 2017)
Document date: 28 Jul 17 (Posted 08 Aug 17)
Document status: Adopted text published
This document concerns UN Regulation No. 144 \| Accident Emergency Call Systems. This submission is related to the following document(s): GRSG/2017/12 \| Proposal for amendments to the new draft Regulation on Accident Emergency Call Systems Available formats: pdf doc GRSG-112-42 \| Draft Regulation on Accident Emergency Call Systems Available formats: pdf doc
Adoption Vote
This proposal (WP.29/2017/132) was adopted by the World Forum. Thirty-eight Contracting Parties to the 1958 Agreement were present for the vote by AC.1. Thirty-seven voted in favor with one against and zero abstaining.
Meeting Reports
Working Party on General Safety \| Session 113 \| 10-13 Oct 2017 53. The expert from the Russian Federation, chairing the IWG on AECS, recalled the detailed consideration of GRSG at its previous session of the new UN Regulation on AECS on the basis of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2017/12. He informed GRSG that the IWG had again reviewed the proposal to remove some editorial inconsistencies. He added that the latter ones have been taken into account in the official document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2017/132 which was submitted to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their November 2017 sessions. He concluded that further work needed to be done. As Secretary of the IWG on AECS, the expert from OICA introduced the revised justification document (GRSG-111-06-Rev.1) on draft UN Regulation on AECS. He reiterated his concern that Contracting Parties to the 1958 Agreement which intend to apply the Regulation should ensure the necessary infrastructure for the application of the new UN Regulation, once it enters into force. 54. GRSG reconfirmed its adoption of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2017/132 and agreed to resume consideration on this subject at its forthcoming session, especially on the need for further developments to the new UN Regulation.