Working Party on General Safety | Session 119 | 6-9 Oct 2020
Geneva
Agenda Item 10.
UN Regulation No. 125 (Forward Field of Vision for Drivers)

54. The expert from the European Commission recalled discussions by GRSG experts under the agenda item 11 at the 118th session of GRSG (see: ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/98), which resulted in the deferral of consideration of the proposal for Supplement 2 to the 01 series of amendments to Regulation No. 125 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2020/11) and of document GRSG-118-26 amending the official proposal, to the current session of GRSG. The objective of the proposal was to extend the scope of the UN Regulation No. 125 to allow for the possibility to apply field of vision prescriptions to N1 category vehicles.

55. The expert of OICA introduced the updated proposal for Supplement 2 to the 01 series of amendments to Regulation No. 125 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2020/31 (based on ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2020/11 as amended by GRSG-118-26)), and document GRSG-119-23 amending the proposal.

56. Following detailed technical discussions, including further comments from experts from Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the European Commission and OICA, GRSG decided to defer considerations related to amendments to UN Regulation No. 125, based on a revised text of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2020/31 and incorporating GRSG-119-23, to its April 2021 session.

57. The expert from France presented the proposal for Supplement 3 to the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 125 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2020/32), containing proposed amendments to UN Regulation No. 125 concerning specifications for defrosting/demisting conductors also outside zone A.

58. GRSG adopted document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2020/32, and agreed to submit it for consideration and vote at the March 2021 session of WP.29/AC.1.

59. The expert from OICA, secretary of the GRSG Task Force on Forward Vision Assistance (TF-FVA) introduced GRSG with to the proceedings of the Kick-off Meeting of the TF-FVA (GRSG-119-33), which took place in September 2020 and was chaired by the expert from the Netherlands. He invited interested delegates to contact him if they would like to take part in the activities of the TF-FVA.

Documentation
GRSG-118-26 UN R125 : Proposal for Supplement 2 to the 01 series of amendments (OICA)
GRSG-119-23 UN R125: Proposal for changes to document GRSG/2020/31 (OICA)
GRSG-119-33 Field of Vision Assistant Task Force kick-off session notes
GRSG/2020/11 UN R125: Proposal for Supplement 2 to the 01 series of amendments (EC)
GRSG/2020/31 UN R125: Proposal for Supplement 2 to the 01 series of amendments (OICA)
GRSG/2020/32 UN R125: Proposal for Supplement 3 to the 01 series of amendments (France)