WP.29/2018/31
RE 3: Proposal for an amendment to the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles

Proposal to change the units for vehicle masses from tonnes to kilograms in R.E.3.

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GRB | Session 67 | 24-26 Jan 2018

24. GRB noted that its proposal to change the measuring units for vehicle masses from tonnes to kilograms had been agreed at the October 2017 session of the Working Party on General Safety Provisions (GRSG) (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2017/20) and would be submitted to the March 2018 session of WP.29 for adoption.

GRSG | Session 113 | 10-13 Oct 2017

58. Upon the request of the Working Party on Noise (GRB), the expert from the Russian Federation proposed ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2017/20 to change, in the current version of R.E.3 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/78/Rev.6), the units for vehicle masses from tonnes to kilograms.

59. The document received the full support of GRSG. The secretariat was requested to submit ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2017/20 to WP.29 as an amendment to R.E.3, for consideration at its March 2018 session.

WP.29 | Session 174 | 12-16 Mar 2018

99. The representative of Italy, Chair of the Working Party on General Safety Provisions (GRSG), presented to the World Forum for consideration the proposal for amendments to the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3) (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2018/31).

100. WP.29 adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2018/31 without objections or abstentions.