GRSG-100-11
Proposal for amendments to Regulation No. 34
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Date
6 Apr 2011
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Subject
Meeting(s)

Para. 5.11 of UN R34 addresses the risk of static electricity igniting gasoline. OICA submitted this proposal in order to clarify that the provisions concern gasoline fuels and not diesel (which has a low spark point).

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GRSG | Session 101 | 18-21 Oct 2011

12. GRSG noted that ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2011/135 was on the agenda of the WP.29 session in November 2011. The expert from OICA presented GRSG-101-19, superseding ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2009/21 and GRSG-100-11, to exempt diesel vehicles from charge dissipation devices. GRSG adopted the proposal, as reproduced below, and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their March 2012 sessions, as draft Supplement 5 to the 02 series of amendments of Regulation No. 34:

Paragraph 5.11., amend to read:

“5.11. The fuel tank … shall be avoided.

  • If necessary, measure(s) for charge dissipation shall be provided. However no charge dissipation system is required for fuel tanks designed for containing a fuel with a flash point higher than 55 °C as referred to in item 5.1. of the communication form in Annex 1, Appendix 2. Determination of the flash point shall be in accordance with ISO 2719:2002.

  • The manufacturer shall … of these requirements."

GRSG | Session 100 | 11-15 Apr 2011

17. The expert from OICA presented GRSG-100-11, superseding ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2009/21 and GRSG-99-15, to exempt diesel vehicles from charge dissipation devices. GRSG noted a number of comments and agreed to consider again this issue on the basis of a revised proposal from OICA. However, GRSG adopted the corrections to Annex 1, Appendix 2 of Regulation No. 34 proposed in GRSG-100-11, and requested the secretariat to submit them, as reproduced in Annex IV, to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their November 2011 session, as draft Corrigendum 1 to Revision 1 of Regulation No. 34.

18. The expert from the Netherlands introduced GRSG-100-08 clarifying the text of Regulation No. 34. GRSG adopted GRSG-100-08 as reproduced in Annex IV and requested the secretariat to submit it to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their November 2011 session, as draft Corrigendum 1 to Supplement 3 to the 02 series of amendments of Regulation No. 34.