WP.29/2026/17
UN R79: Proposal for a Supplement 15 to the 03 series of amendments
Source(s)
Date
23 Dec 2025
Status
Adopted
Subject
Impact
03 series of amendments | Supplement 15
Meeting(s)

Proposal to:

  1. Allow the diver to slow down the remote parking manoeuvre, including coming to a stop, sooner that intended by the system, and
  2. Introduce transitional provisions pursuant to the adoption of Supplements that included changes to the approval requirements.

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Excerpts from session reports
GRVA | Session 23 | 22-25 Sep 2025

3. GRVA considered the provisional agenda prepared for its twenty-second session (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/38). GRVA adopted it as reproduced in informal document GRVA-23-02/Rev.1, which includes references to all informal documents received until 2 June 2025 and with the following additions: GRVA agreed to consider, under agenda item 8(c) ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/45/Rev.1 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/46/Rev.1 as well as ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/48/Rev.1 under agenda item 6 (a). (All informal documents considered during the session are listed in Annex I of the session report. Annex II provides the list of Informal Working Groups (IWG) reporting to GRVA.)

41. GRVA reviewed an amendment proposal (GRVA-23-19), tabled by the representative of OICA, to the remote-control parking provisions in UN Regulation No. 79, aimed at allowing the driver to slow down the manoeuvre or to stop the vehicle earlier than intended by the system. GRVA adopted it.

42. GRVA requested the secretariat to transmit the proposal, as reproduced in Annex III, as draft supplements to the 03 and 04 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 79 and to be incorporated in the draft 05 series of amendment to UN Regulation No 79, for consideration and vote by WP.29 and AC.1 at their March 2025 sessions.

43. The representative of OICA proposed (GRVA-23-20) to introduce transitional provisions for the newly adopted provisions applicable to full power steering systems (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/48/Rev.1 as amended by GRVA-23-45). The representative of Japan acknowledged that the transitional provisions were necessary and supported the proposal.
44. GRVA adopted the proposal (see Annex VII) and requested the secretariat to transmit it as part of the draft supplements to the 03 and 04 series of amendments and to be incorporated in the draft 05 series of amendments, for consideration and vote by WP.29 and AC.1 at their March 2025 sessions.

WP.29 | Session 198 | 9-13 Mar
With 34 of the 51 Contracting Parties applying UN R79 present and voting, AC.1 adopted document WP.29/2026/17 by a vote of 34 in favor, 0 opposed, with 0 abstaining.