GAR | GRB-65-05

GRB-65-05

EU Regulation on AVAS requirements

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Date

2 Mar 2017 (Posted: 3 Feb 2017)

Status

Subject

UN R138 Quiet Road Transport Vehicles

Meeting(s)

GRB | Session 65 | 15-17 Feb 2017

Agenda item 8. Regulation No. 138 (Quiet road transport vehicles)

Presentation on the current European Commission draft proposal for the transposition of UN R138 regarding “quiet road transport vehicles” into EU law. The draft would require the audible alert signal to be activated at vehicle start-up, but would allow for use of a pause function activated by the driver. A fuller set of documents was provided for the 64th Technical Committee-Motor Vehicles session.

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GRB | Session 65 | 15-17 Feb 2017

17. The expert from EC briefed GRB on preparing a new EU Regulation aimed to amend and supplement the Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS) requirements in Annex VIII to EU Regulation No. 540/2014, based on the provisions of Regulation No. 138 and its 01 series of amendments (GRB-65-05). GRB noted the legal complications stemming from the fact that the so-called AVAS ‘pause switch’ was mandatory in EU Regulation No. 540/2014, optional in the original version of Regulation No. 138 and then prohibited in its 01 series of amendments.

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