GAR | GRVA-22-31/Rev.1

GRVA-22-31/Rev.1

FADS task force status report to GRVA

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FADS

Date

4 Jun 2025

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GRVA | Session 22 | 2-6 Jun 2025

Agenda item 4. (e) Coordination of work on automation between working parties

The Task Force on regulatory Fitness for Automated Driving Systems reports proposed amendments to UN R13, R13-H, and R79. Amendments to R13 and R13-H, submitted as GRVA/2025/24 and GRVA/2025/25, include general clarifications, relaxed manual control requirements for vehicles of categories X and Y, clarification of braking system warning transmission to the ADS, and ESC compatibility provisions. R79 amendments, submitted as GRVA/2025/23, establish baseline manual control requirements for X and Y vehicles, remote control capabilities, ADS steering equipment requirements, and remove ALKS exemptions. Transitional provisions apply. The task force coordinates with other expert groups on horizontal topics and continues amending additional UN Regulations.

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GRVA | Session 22 | 2-6 Jun 2025

24. During the consultations, the experts from China and France, Co-Chairs of the Task Force on the Fitness of UN Regulations and UN Global Technical Regulations for ADS (TF on FADS), presented the status report of the task force (GRVA-22-31). The experts discussed the meaning of the term “mock approvals” in this context and clarified it as “validation activities” as reflected in informal document GRVA-22-31/Rev.1. The experts also called for sponsors to check the fitness of UN Global Technical Regulations Nos. 3 and 8 and propose amendments, if needed. China offered to consider it and report back in September 2025.

25. GRVA endorsed informal document GRVA-22-31/Rev.1.

26. GRVA agreed to keep documents ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/23 (as amended by GRVA-22-32), ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/24 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/25 on its agenda for the September 2025 session.