Working Party on Pollution and Energy | Session 79 | 21-24 May 2019
Geneva
Agenda Item 5.
UN Regulations Nos. 24 (Diesel smoke), 85 (Measurement of net power), 115 (LPG and CNG retrofit systems), 133 (Recyclability of motor vehicles), and 143 (Heavy-Duty Dual-Fuel Engine Retrofit Systems (HDDF-ERS))

30. The expert from Italy presented ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2019/10 which established the conditions to consider direct and indirect injection vehicles as being part of the same approval family. The representative from Netherlands requested some clarifications to the text to make sure the Particulate Number (PN) limit was valid. The representative from Italy declared the proposal has no impact on gasoline operations and a proposed slight amendment to the text, as reproduced in Annex IV. The representatives from Netherlands, France and EC agreed the proposed new text clarified the proposal.

31. The representative from Liquid Gas Europe agreed with the proposed improvement and supported the proposal.

32. GRPE endorsed the proposal and requested the secretariat to submit Annex IV of the session report to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration and vote at their November 2019 sessions as draft Supplement 9 to UN Regulation No. 115.

33. The expert from OICA introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2019/11 and GRPE-79-27-Rev.1 that amended the footnote 9 in table 1 of Annex 5 to introduce an alternative for the measurement of power of charge-air-cooled engines. The representative from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland required clarifications on considerations about the test temperature and potential concerns about tests being done at extreme temperatures. Amendments were provided in GRPE-79-27-Rev.1. GRPE supported the new proposal in GRPE-79-27-Rev.1 as reproduced in Annex V of the session report.

34. GRPE endorsed the proposal and requested the secretariat to submit Annex V of the report to WP.29 and the AC.1 for consideration and vote at their November 2019 sessions as draft Supplement 10 to UN Regulation No. 85.

Documentation
GRPE-79-27/Rev.1 UN R85: Amendments document GRPE/2019/11 (OICA)
GRPE/2019/10 UN R115: Proposal for a new Supplement (Italy)
GRPE/2019/11 UN R85: Proposal for a new Supplement (OICA)