WP.29/2024/18
UN R45: Proposal for Supplement 13 to the 01 series of amendments

Proposal to remove the list of classes and to refer in general only to passing-beams and driving-beams.

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GRE | Session 89 | 24-27 Oct 2023

38. The expert of GTB introduced a proposal for amendments to UN Regulation No. 45 (Headlamp cleaners) that covered all passing beams (AFS or not) of the 00 and 01 series to UN Regulation No. 149 and made corrections (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRE/2023/22). GRE adopted the proposal and requested the secretariat to submit them for consideration and vote at the March 2024 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1 as draft Supplement 13 to the original series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 45.

WP.29 | Session 192 | 4-8 Mar 2024

95. The World Forum considered draft amendments under agenda items 4.9.1, 4.9.2, 4.9.4 to 4.9.9, 4.9.11, 4.9.12, 4.9.14 and 4.9.15 and recommended their submission to AC.1 for voting.

96. For agenda items 4.9.3, 4.9.10 and 4.9.13, the GRE Chair proposed the following editorial corrections:

  • Agenda tem 4.9.3., ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2024/18, title, for ‘Proposal for Supplement 13 to the original series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 45’ read ‘Proposal for Supplement 13 to the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 45’.
  • Agenda item 4.9.10, ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2024/25, Annex 10, Table A10-1, delete an empty line.
  • Agenda item 4.9.13, document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2024/28, paragraph 6.22.9.1., for ‘item 9.3.2.3.’ read ‘item 9.2.2.3.’

97. Subject to the above corrections, the World Forum considered draft amendments under agenda items 4.9.3, 4.9.10 and 4.9.13 and recommended their submission to AC.1 for voting.

98. The representative of Japan pointed out their full support to the proposal for new 09 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 48 under agenda item 4.9.13. (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2024/28) and stressed its importance to road safety.

With 36 of the 48 Contracting Parties applying UN R45 present and voting, AC.1 adopted document WP.29/2024/18, as amended by para. 96 per the session report, by a vote of 36 in favor, 0 opposed, with 0 abstaining.