WP.29/2025/120
UN R16: Proposal for a Supplement 6 to the 08 series of amendments

Proposal to remove the prohibition on use the Unique Identifier per the WP.29 decision to change the default application of the UI from a requirement (requiring prohibition in cases where UI does not apply) to a permission (requiring an affirmative statement that UI may be used under a Regulation) and to allow the use of talcum for the dust resistance test as an alternative to dry quartz.

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GRSP | Session 77 | 5-9 May 2025

12. The expert from the Kingdom of the Netherlands introduced informal document GRSP-77-33-Rev.1, which superseded ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/3. He explained that the final drafting of the amendment kept dry quartz as the requirement in the test description and then offered talcum as an alternative way of fulfilling this requirement. He also clarified that the relative softness of talcum did not lower the stringency of the test, as this test was measuring dust intrusion, not durability and that it should be up to type approval authorities, to decide which substance to use in the test. The expert from CLEPA supported the proposal and announced that they were carrying out tests to assess the difference between the two substances and would bring the results to the next GRSP session.

13. Taking into account the previous discussion and adoption in principle of informal documents GRSP-77-03, GRSP-77-04 and GRSP-77-05 under agenda item 24 (b) (see paragraph 48), GRSP adopted these three informal documents together with informal document GRSP-77-33-Rev.1 (as reproduced in annex III to the session report) and requested the secretariat to submit them as proposals for supplement 6 to the 08 series of amendments, supplement 2 to the 09 series of amendments and supplement 2 to the 10 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 16 to the November 2025 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1.