Working Party on Lighting and Light-signalling | Session 79 | 24-27 Apr 2018
Geneva
The deadline for the submission of official working documents is 26 January 2018.
Agenda Item 6. (b)
Regulation No. 48: Other proposals for amendments

29. The expert from Poland provided a summary of initial aiming and levelling tolerance issue (GRE-79-23, GRE-79-24). The experts from Italy and the Netherlands briefly introduced GRE-79-29 as a discussion paper for the possible introduction of new requirements for headlamp levelling, in particular on the vertical inclination in relation to the dipped-beam headlamp mounting height. GRE agreed to keep GRE-79-29 as a reference document for the next session.

30. GRE noted the slow progress in the work of the Informal Working Group on Visibility, Glare and Levelling (IWG-VGL). To advance the topic, the expert from GTB proposed to bring together various experts on glare and levelling issues for a one-day event, in conjunction with the next session of GRE. GRE supported this idea.

31. GRE took note that WP.29 had extended the mandate of IWG VGL for the year 2018 and recalled its request to IWG VGL to revise its Terms of Reference. The expert from Poland presented his proposals (GRE-79-33). Due to the late availability of GRE-79-33, GRE decided to revert to this issue at the next session. Some experts were of the view that IWG VGL had completed phase I of its mandate and that phase II should be taken over by IWG SLR to avoid duplication in the work of the two IWGs. The Chair invited IWG SLR to address this issue at the next sessions.

Documentation
GRE-79-11 SLR: Proposal to improve the general requirements for the "Change Index"
GRE-79-19 UN R48: India comments on the draft Supplement to the 06 series (India)
GRE-79-25 Proposal for the 07 series of amendments to UN R48 and for Supplement 20 to UN R87 (Germany and Italy)
GRE-79-30 UN R48 and R87: Comments on proposed amendments (document GRE-79-25) (OICA)
GRE-79-33 Proposal to amend the VGL informal group terms of reference
GRE/2018/7 UN R48: Proposal for Supplement [12] to the 05 series of amendments
GRE/2018/20 UN R48: Proposal for a new series of amendments (SAE)