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73. The GRPE Chair invited GRPE experts to provide him with comments on ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1093. He expressed his intention to identify a person in charge of the GRPE coordination activities related to the development of the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval (IWVTA) system, and invited experts to express their interest.
61. GRPE noted that WP.29 adopted the GRPE proposal to introduce into R.E.3 a new annex containing key parameters on market fuel quality (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2011/127), including some editorial and administrative amendments (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1093, paragraph 99). The adoption of the introduction of a similar annex into S.R.1 is foreseen for the March session of WP.29/AC.3.
62. The Chair requested GRPE experts to voice their position on the need for further activities in this field. The expert from OICA recalled that, in the Organization’s position, the adopted guidelines needed to be considered as a first achievement. She expressed a preference to move forward with the addition of other parameters already discussed in the framework of this work, and she announced her intention to investigate whether there were still reservations from Contracting Parties.
63. The GRPE Chair invited the expert from OICA to work with interested Contracting Parties and, if appropriate, to develop a document for consideration at the next GRPE session.
66. The expert from the USA presented a proposal on the Terms of Reference for the informal working group on Electric Vehicles and Environment (EVE) (GRPE-63-13). On behalf of all the co-sponsors: the EU, Japan and the USA, he underlined the need to establish two informal working groups addressing the safety and environmental issues of electric vehicles (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/36), as approved by WP.29 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1093) in its last session. He informed GRPE that the co-sponsors aim to: (a) exchange information on current and future regulatory requirements for electric vehicles in different markets; (b) minimize the differences between these regulatory requirements, with a view toward facilitating the development of vehicles to comply with such requirements; and (c) where possible, develop common requirements in the form of UN GTRs. He reminded GRPE that the informal group on EVE is expected to address environmental issues, while another informal group, established in the GRSP framework, should focus on Electric Vehicle Safety.
67. The GRPE Chair welcomed the proposal and invited GRPE experts that send their comments on the proposal to the expert from the USA (delaney.maureen@epa.gov). He concluded that there is no intention, at the moment, to develop a UN GTR on environmental issues (while such a development is likely in the case of safety). He stated the expectation that this initiative would reinforce the work undertaken on electric vehicles by other groups (like HDH and WLTP).
37. GRRF noted that the report ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1093 of the November 2011 session of WP.29 was available at the WP.29 website. The following major issues were highlighted (reference to the report of WP.29):
(a) Situation on the delays in publishing procedure of documentation (paras. 4 and 14);
(b) Availability of documentation in the three authentic languages (paras. 15-17);
(c) Instructions and rules of the UN Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) for Corrigenda (para. 19), specifying that Corrigenda should aim exclusively at correcting, without modifying the meaning or substance of the text of the treaty:
(d) Recommendations from OLA that the terms “UN Regulations”, “UN Global Technical Regulations” and “UN Rules” could be used in administrative and informative documents, but not in legal documents (subject to a revision of the text of the 1958, 1997 and 1998 Agreements) (para. 20).
The Chair recalled the background as follows:
2-step approach :
1st step and 2nd step for vehicles covered by step 1 finalized – expected to be adopted at
November 2012 session of WP29.
2nd step for vehicle types with no criteria in step 1 needs to be developed now – deadline for
decision: November 2013 session of WP29, i.e. 3 years in advance of the 2016 deadline.
The Chair concluded that this group will have to work fast and some additional meetings are
expected to be decided for the following months.
The informal document WP.29-158-12 was withdrawn by Russia.
The proposed regulatory text still includes bracketed text that was presented for review and guidance by the Contracting Parties. These passages were addressed in the 155th WP.29 session and resolved in paragraph 39 of the session report (document WP.29/1093). The request is for the Secretariat to make these changes prior to submitting the text to the UN Office of Legal Affairs for approval following the expected vote of the Forum to adopt the new regulation.
Proposal as stipulated above unanimously adopted.