WP.29/2017/3
Proposal for Supplement 5 to Regulation No. 28
Source(s)
Date
22 Dec 2016
Status
Adopted
Subject
Impact
Original text | Supplement 5
Meeting(s)

Proposal to update and clarify the regulation. The proposal refines definitions, removes the “AWD” abbeviation for “audible warning device” to avoid confusion with its more common use for “all wheel drive”, modifies some administrative communications, and proposes three-direction acoustic measurements. The proposal also aims to structure the regulation to enable its application to additional sound warning devices not presently regulated at the international level, excluding acoustic vehicle alerting systems (AVAS) which will be subject to a separate regulation on minimum vehicle sound levels.

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Excerpts from session reports
GRB | Session 64 | 5-7 Sep 2016

3. The expert from the Russian Federation introduced an updated proposal for amendments to Regulation No. 28 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRB/2016/4, GRB-64-01, GRB-64-09 and GRB-64-22). The proposal received comments from the experts of France, Japan (GRB-64-02), Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland and OICA. GRB adopted the proposal, as amended by Annex II, and requested the secretariat to submit it to the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29) and the Administrative Committee (AC.1) for consideration and vote at their March 2017 sessions as a draft Supplement 5 to Regulation No. 28.

WP.29 | Session 171 | 14-17 Mar 2017
With 35 of the 45 Contracting Parties applying UN R28 present and voting, AC.1 adopted document WP.29/2017/3 by a vote of 35 in favor, 0 opposed, with 0 abstaining.