88. The World Forum considered the proposals for new UN Regulations on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles of category L, and on mechanical coupling components of combinations of agricultural vehicles under items 4.12.1 and 4.12.2 and recommended their submission to AC.1 for voting.

43. The expert from Japan introduced the draft UN Regulation on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles of category L (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2017/19) with a presentation (GRSP-62-01). GRSP noted that GRSP-62-02 showed the changes introduced in the official proposal (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2017/19) with reference to the original ones introduced during the May 2017 session of GRSP (GRSP-61-03). The expert from the United Kingdom suggested incorporating these provisions into UN Regulation No. 134 instead to creating a new UN Regulation. However, the expert from Japan confirmed his intention of have a separate UN Regulation addressing specific conditions related to L category of vehicles, such as: (a) frontal and lateral shocks, (b) fuel system leakage and © parking conditions. GRSP adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2017/19, as amended by Annex IX to the session report. The secretariat was requested to submit the proposal as draft new UN Regulation on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles of category L to the June 2018 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration and vote.

47. The expert from Japan introduced the draft UN Regulation on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles of category L (GRSP-61-03) with a presentation (GRSP-61-04). He explained that his country had established a national standard with similar provisions. However, he added that the mutual recognition of type approvals ensured by the 1958 Agreement to enable faster deployment such vehicles thus the reason for proposing a new UN Regulation instead of amending the UN GTR No. 13. GRSP requested experts to provide their comments on the proposal to the expert from Japan by the end of July. GRSP expected to resume discussion at its December 2017 session on the basis of a revised proposal and requested the secretariat to keep GRSP-61-03 as a reference on the agenda of the next session.