16. GRRF noted the submission by the Working Party on General Safety Provisions (GRSG) to the June session of WP.29 of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/30 proposing to remove the ESC tell-tale requirements from Regulations Nos. 13 and 13-H and to insert these requirements into Regulation No. 121.
GRRF supported the text proposed in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRRF/2012/14 and agreed to take the opportunity of these amendments to clean up the transitional provisions.
The Russian Federation introduced GRRF-72-30 summarizing the transitional provisions of Regulation No. 13-H. The Chair introduced GRRF-72-29 containing additional explanations. Following the discussion, GRRF decided to establish an editorial group to review the transitional provisions in Regulations Nos. 13 and 13-H. The Chair committed to ensure simultaneous adoption, by WP.29, of ECE/TRANS/2012/30 and the final amendments to the braking regulations with regard to the ESC tell-tale requirements.
GRRF agreed to resume consideration of this subject at its next session on the basis of a revised proposal.
15. GRRF had noted during its last session the submission to WP.29 by the Working Party on General Safety Provisions (GRSG) of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/30 proposing to remove the ESC tell-tale requirements from UN Regulations Nos. 13 and 13-H and to insert these requirements into UN Regulation No. 121. GRRF had supported the text proposed in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRRF/2012/14. The experts from the Russian Federation and OICA proposed to clean up the transitional provisions and introduced GRRF-73-19 and GRRF-73-24, summarizing the transitional provisions of UN Regulations Nos. 13-H and 13 including explanations and useful details. The expert from OICA agreed to prepare an official document on the basis of these proposals for consideration at the next GRRF session. The Chair underlined the need for simultaneous adoption of amendments by WP.29 and AC. 1 and therefore suggested to keep ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/30 on the agenda of WP.29, awaiting the adoption by GRRF of amendments to Regulations Nos. 13 and 13-H. He expressed his intention to inform WP.29.
11. The expert from Italy introduced GRRF-74-15, recalling the unintended deletion of paragraph 12.5. in Revision 2 to Regulation No. 13-H and proposing its reintroduction. GRRF agreed to this proposal and requested the secretariat to submit the proposal, as reproduced in Annex IV to this report, to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their June 2013 sessions as draft Corrigendum 3 to the Revision 2 to Regulation No. 13-H.
12. The Chair recalled the purpose of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/30 tabled by the Working Party on General Safety Provisions (GRSG) proposing to remove the ESC tell-tale requirements from UN Regulations Nos. 13 and 13-H and to insert these requirements into UN Regulation No. 121. GRRF agreed during its last session on this proposal and on cleaning up the transitional provisions of Regulations Nos. 13 and 13-H (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRRF/2012/14). The expert from OICA introduced GRRF-74-16 proposing to revise the transitional provisions taking into account the corresponding guidelines by WP.29. The expert from the Netherlands presented GRRF-74-39, proposing to revise the transitional provisions that are currently valid and to delete obsolete transitional provisions. The expert from the Russian Federation introduced GRRF-74-32 updating GRRF-74-16. The expert from the United Kingdom volunteered to organize an ad hoc meeting aimed at preparing an official document on the basis of GRRF-74-32 and GRRF-74-39 for the next session of GRRF. The expert from the Netherlands requested the presence of the secretariat to guide the work on this issue.