GAR | WP.29/2025/103

WP.29/2025/103

UN R46: Proposal for a 07 series of amendments

Source(s)

Date

27 Aug 2025

Status

Adopted

Subject

UN R46 Indirect Vision

Impact

07 series of amendments

Meeting(s)

WP.29 | Session 197 | 10-14 Nov 2025

Agenda item 4.7.1. Proposal for 07 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 46 (Devices for Indirect Vision)

Proposal to:

Improve the positioning of pure Class I monitors for drivers with presbyopia (difficulty in clearly seeing close objects)
Introduce installation requirements for surveillance mirrors and surveillance camera-monitor-recording devices
Allow for single approval number for devices with more than one field-of-view
Refine obstruction provisions
Introduce provisions for rounding of magnification factors
Introduce a new definition for “Surveillance camera-monitor-recording device”
Clarification of the “external original surface” concept
Clarification that the radius of curvature is not be mandatory on the back of Class I mirrors
Allow greater flexibility in conducting the pendulum testing
Clarify the “operation readiness” with respect to partially folded camera wings
Allow for alternatives to the test defined in annex 7 for evaluating the radius of curvature on the reflecting surface if needed
Correct certain errors.

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Excerpts from session reports

GRSG | Session 128 | 7-11 Oct 2024

10. The expert from Germany introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2024/40, clarifying that the document was not ready for adoption and needed further Task Force discussion. GRSG agreed to defer discussion of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2024/40 as well as GRSG-128-06, amending it, to its April 2025 session.

11. GRSG considered ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2024/41, as a request of guidance to clarify the meaning of “limit the return of the hammer” in paragraph 6.3.2.2.5. of the 06 series of amendments of UN Regulation No. 46. The majority of GRSG experts were in favour of the limit expressed in subparagraph 6.3.2.2.5. (b). GRSG noted that the expert from Germany would revert this answer to the Task Force to finalize the proposal of amendment to the UN Regulation.

GRSG | Session 129 | 7-11 Apr 2025

10. The expert from Germany, Chair of TF on UN Regulation No. 46 introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/8 and amendment GRSG-129-44-Rev.1. GRSG adopted GRSG-129-44-Rev.1 superseding ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/8, as reproduced by annex IV to the report. The secretariat was requested to submit the proposal as the draft 07 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 46, for consideration and vote at the November 2025 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1.

WP.29 | Session 197 | 10-14 Nov 2025

With 38 of the 51 Contracting Parties applying UN R46 present and voting, AC.1 adopted document WP.29/2025/103 by a vote of 38 in favor, 0 opposed, with 0 abstaining.