Proposal for a supplement to Regulation No. 46
Document GRSG/2011/23/Rev.1
20 July 2012

Revised proposal prepared by the Informal Group on Camera-Monitor Systems to permit the replacement of all mirrors by camera-monitor systems, taking into account comments received during the 101st and 102nd GRSG sessions.

Submitted by Netherlands
Status: Superseded
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5. | Regulation No. 46 (Devices for indirect vision)

23. Referring to the final report GRSG-108-23, the expert from the Netherlands, chairing the Informal Working Group (IWG) on Camera-Monitor Systems (CMS), informed GRSG that his group had finalized the draft amendments to Regulation No. 46 to introduce the optional replacement of mirrors of Classes I to IV by camera-monitor systems (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2015/2). He added that all ISO standards referred to in the proposed text were accessible for GRSG experts as informal documents GRSG-108-03 and GRSG-108-20. On behalf of the informal group on CMS, he presented GRSG-108-21 incorporating further amendments to ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2015/2. He proposed to insert supplementary information on camera-monitor systems of classes I to IV into the existing information documents required for type-approval procedure (GRSG-108-22).

24. GRSG adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2015/2, amended as reproduced in GRSG-108-46-Rev.2 (including the modified scope proposed in GRSG-108-17-Rev.1 and adopted under para. 22 above). The secretariat was requested to submit the adopted proposal to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their November 2015 sessions, as draft Supplement 2 to the 04 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 46.

27. The expert from the Netherlands presented ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2015/10 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2015/11 proposing to align the provisions of UN Regulations Nos. 26 (External projections) and 61 (External projections of commercial vehicles) with the adopted new CMS provisions in UN Regulation No. 46 (para. 24 above). GRSG adopted both documents and requested the secretariat to submit them (together with ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2015/2, as amended) to WP.29 and AC.1 for consideration at their November 2015 sessions, as draft Supplement 3 to the 03 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 26 and as draft Supplement 3 to UN Regulation No. 61 respectively.

5. | Regulation No. 46 (Devices for indirect vision)

17. Recalling the purpose of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2011/23, the expert from CLEPA introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2012/4 and GRSG-102-04 improving the provisions on camera-monitor systems. GRSG noted a number of concerns on the approval marking. The expert from the EC underlined the importance of replacing all mirrors by camera-monitor systems. He volunteered to prepare for the next GRSG session a presentation on the impact of such systems on road safety. The expert from Germany reported (GRSG-102-31) on the work progress made by the ISO working group on the standardization of camera monitoring systems (ISO 16505). The expert from the Netherlands volunteered to prepare for the next session of GRSG a revised proposal taking into account the comments received and the outcome of the ISO working group.

Related and Previous Documents
GRSG/2011/23
GRSG-101-03
GRSG-102-04
GRSG/2012/4
GRSG/2015/2
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