GAR | WP.29/2026/141

WP.29/2026/141

GTR 13: Proposal for Amendment 2

Source(s)

GRSP

Date

7 Apr 2026

Status

Adopted by WP.29

Subject

GTR No. 13 Hydrogen/Fuel Cell Vehicles

Meeting(s)

WP.29 | Session 199 | 22-26 Jun

Agenda item 14.2.2. Proposal for amendments to UN GTR No. 13 (Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles)

Proposal to insert a new chapter P and paragraphs 247 and 248 establishing that supply lines for additional TPRDs are constructed from metallic materials with further investigation required for other materials in the next phase, and requiring manufacturers to provide handling procedures to ensure supply lines will not suffer damage or contamination during handling with removal from service of lines with unacceptable damage, exclude the drop test from the requirements at para. 51., and amend para. 81. (c) (i) to clarify that drop impact testing applies to containers without supply lines and valves with damage to supply lines or valves requiring replacement.

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GRSP | Session 77 | 5-9 May 2025

6. The expert from OICA presented informal documents GRSP-77-47 and GRSP-77-48 and announced the intention of one of the contracting parties to the 1998 Agreement participating in the Task Force amending UN Regulation No. 134 (TF-R134) to submit a request for authorization to develop an amendment to UN Global Technical Regulation No. 13 to the June sessions of WP.29 and AC.3.

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

133. The representative of Netherlands (Kingdom of the) presented a request for authorization to develop an amendment to UN Global Technical Regulation No. 13. He explained that the objective was to address some inconsistencies in Part I (Statement of technical rationale and justification) of the UN GTR which had been found to lead to differing interpretations, but that no changes to the existing requirements would be made. AC.3 endorsed the request for authorization (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2025/161) and requested the secretariat to distribute it with an AC.3 symbol at its March 2026 session.

GRSP | Session 78 | 1-4 Dec 2025

8. Following the adoption by the Executive Committee of the 1998 Agreement (AC.3) in its November 2025 session of the request for authorization to develop an amendment to UN GTR No. 13 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2025/161), GRSP endorsed informal document GRSP-77-48 (as reproduced in annex III), and requested the secretariat to submit it as a proposal for an amendment 2 to UN GTR No. 13 to the June 2026 sessions of WP.29 and AC.3.

WP.29 | Session 198 | 9-13 Mar

131. The Chair of GRSP informed AC.3 that following the adoption by AC.3 in its November 2025 session of the request for authorization to develop an amendment to UN GTR No. 13 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2025/161), GRSP had endorsed the proposal for an amendment 2 to UN GTR No. 13 and had requested the secretariat to submit it to the June 2026 sessions of WP.29 and AC.3.

WP.29 | Session 199 | 22-26 Jun

124. The Chair of GRSP introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2026/140 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2026/141 with proposals for a corrigendum to UN GTR No. 9 and an amendment 2 to UN GTR No. 13, respectively.

125. The corrigendum to UN GTR No. 9 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2026/140) was established in the Global Registry of the 1998 Agreement on 24 June 2026 by consensus vote of Australia, Canada, China, European Union (representing Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden), Japan, Republic of Korea, Nigeria, Norway, Russian Federation, South Africa, Türkiye, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America. Tunisia abstained from voting.

126. Amendment 2 to UN GTR No. 13 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2026/141) was established in the Global Registry of the 1998 Agreement on 24 June 2026 by consensus vote of Australia, Canada, China, European Union (representing Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden), Japan, Republic of Korea, Nigeria, Norway, Russian Federation, South Africa, Türkiye, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and United States of America.