SLR-78-02/Rev.1
Simplification of Lighting Regulations: Agenda for the 78th (June 2026) session
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15 Jun 2026
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The agenda addresses correction of errors and omissions in UN Regulation 150-01, including a consolidated proposal merging GRE-92-18, GRE-94-02/Rev.1, GRE-94-11, and GRE-94-24, and a decision on addition of Part 7 on Colour-fastness to Annex 6. Baseline documents for UN Regulations Nos. 48, 53, 74, and 86 will be reviewed, along with transitional provisions. The group will consider visibility of direction indicators and Korean concerns regarding rear direction indicator lamp height. The 79th meeting is scheduled for Tokyo in September 2026.

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GRE | Session 93 | 21-23 Oct 2025

9. GRE recalled the package of amendment proposals to UN Regulations Nos. 148, 149 and 150 that had been submitted by the expert from Netherlands (Kingdom of the) with the aim to take onboard the recent amendments to Schedule 5 of the 1958 Agreement on the Unique Identifier (UI) (GRE-92-13, GRE-92-14, GRE-92-15, GRE-92-16, GRE-92-17, GRE-92-18). GRE adopted these proposals and decided to merge them with other possible amendment proposals to the same series of amendments before submitting to WP.29.

GRE | Session 94 | 27-30 Apr

7. The experts of the Informal Working Group “Simplification of the Lighting and Light-Signalling Regulations” (IWG SLR) reported on their activities (GRE-94-32) and presented an extensive “SLR package” made up of the consolidated texts of draft new series of amendments to four installation UN Regulations Nos. 48, 53, 74 and 86 (GRE-94-33, GRE-94-35, GRE-94-36, GRE-94-37, GRE-94-38, GRE-94-39, GRE-94-40, GRE-94-41). IWG SLR continued considerations on the apparent surface and improved visibility of the rear direction indicators against the stop lamps. The expert from the Netherlands (Kingdom of) reminded that the new series of amendments should include the updated provisions on the Unique Identifier (UI).

8. The Chair of IWG SLR pointed out that the new series of amendments to the installation UN Regulations would include transitional provisions for those series only, while the transitional provisions for the previous series would be collected and published in a separate reference document under the folder “Documents for reference only” on the GRE website.

9. GRE agreed to address ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRE/2026/3 and GRE-94-02-Rev.1 under agenda item 7 (c) (see para. 32 below).