OICA took the floor by reminding the audience of the background of AECS in the frame of the IWG AECS activities (under GRSG).

The representative of Netherlands could not attend the TF meeting, but sent ahead of the session a discussion paper. During the meeting, the document was shown to the OICA delegation, and to the representative of France and Japan. The document contains questions – see 3rd paragraph of the documents – OICA answered during the session:

“1. Does R10.04 (and any later version) fully cover the EMC aspects for AECD components to be fitted to vehicles and for vehicles with these systems installed/integrated?”
OICA: OICA considers that when going through R10.05, paragraph 3.2.1 “Applicability of this Regulation to ESA”, it is clear that AECD falls into the scope of R10.05.

“2. In case not, what amendments can be proposed to Regulation No. 10?”
OICA: does not apply because of the answer to previous question.

“3. Are specific EMC provisions necessary within the Regulation on AECS?”
OICA: general requirements of Regulation No. 10 are adequate and sufficient.

The representative of France asked about the general aim of R10 and whether it should define functional tests or not. This was also touched during the discussion on the indirect vision device topics, regarding failure criteria and its inclusion in R10. That led to a more general exchange of ideas on the definition of the boundaries of R10 (when referring to primary safety functions).

It was of general opinion that TF should develop a position paper about the scope of R10, otherwise the same discussion would come up along with each new system (the example of Autonomous Driving was raised). For now, TF decided to leave issue on the agenda in order to discuss it again at next meeting.