GRSP/2017/5
Draft Supplement 3 to Regulation No. 134

Proposal to

  1. align the regulation with legislation of the European Union, United States of America, and Japan,
  2. clarify the test procedure, including ambient temperature provisions,
  3. reduce unnecessary time and cost demands of the COP test procedures,
  4. apply the minimum burst pressure BPmin as the pressure limit in the hydrostatic pressure rupture test for COP batch testing, and
  5. delete the phrase “and in no case less than the value necessary to meet the stress ratio requirements” erroneously introduced into paragraph 9.3.2.1.
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GRSP | Session 60 | 13-16 Dec 2016

37. GRSP noted GRSP-60-07 tabled by the expert from Japan which proposes improvements to the test requirements. GRSP agreed to resume discussion on this subject at its May 2017 session and requested the secretariat to distribute it with an official symbol at its next session.

GRSP | Session 61 | 8-12 May 2017

39. GRSP noted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2017/5 tabled by the expert from Japan proposing improvements to the test requirements. GRSP adopted the proposal as amended by Annex VII to the report. The secretariat was requested to submit the proposal for consideration and vote at the November 2017 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1 as draft Supplement 3 to UN Regulation No. 134.