EDO-06-10
UN R11: Comments on draft provisions for door opening in emergencies
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31 Aug 2026
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This document presents draft provisions for UN Regulation No. 11 concerning door latches and door retention components. Inspired by justifications in GRSP-79-19 and GRSP-78-48, amendments address vehicles equipped with Automated Driving System features (ADSF-1 and ADSF-2), extending requirements to vehicles of category X while excluding category Y. Key EDO additions include definitions for latch release controls, door handles, power loss, and unlock/unlatch operations. New performance requirements mandate intuitive latch release controls and door handles; power-assisted exterior and interior controls must remain functional for at least 60 minutes after power loss through secondary mechanical means, active secondary power supplies, or fail-safe principles. Annex 7 introduces a power loss test procedure verifying door operability following emergency events, with interior and exterior opening procedures conducted within 10 minutes after 60-minute power disconnection periods.

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GRSP | Session 78 | 1-4 Dec 2025

42. GRSP noted that at its November 2025 session, WP.29 reaffirmed its objective to adopt all documents related to the review of existing UN Regulations related to Automated Driving Systems (ADS) at its June 2026 session and invited the Chairs of the Working Parties to consider various strategies to ensure timely preparation of the required documents. This corresponded to option 1 in informal document WP.29-197-25 and would require all proposals under this agenda item to be adopted by GRSP on this session.

43. Following a general update by the expert from Germany on the first day of the meeting, the GRSP Task Force on Automated Vehicles Regulation Screening (TF-AVRS) continued work on the margins of the meeting to refine the proposals and submitted a number of informal documents to amend the proposals in working documents under this agenda item. GRSP adopted the following proposals :

  1. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/11 as amended by GRSP-78-48 as amended (as reproduced in annex IX), with a proposal for supplement 3 to the 04 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 11,
  2. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/12 as amended by GRSP-78-38 (as reproduced in annex X), with a proposal for supplement 1 to the 05 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 12,
  3. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/13 as amended by GRSP-78-32 (as reproduced in annex XI), with a proposal for supplement 5 to the 09 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 14,
  4. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/15 as amended by GRSP-78-33 (as reproduced in annex XII), with a proposal for supplement 3 to the 10 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 16,
  5. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/16 as amended by GRSP-78-42 (as reproduced in annex IV), with a proposal for supplement 1 to the 12 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 17,
  6. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/17 as amended by GRSP-78-31 (as reproduced in annex XIII), with a proposal for supplement 6 to the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 21,
  7. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/18 as amended by GRSP-78-30 (as reproduced in annex XIV), with a proposal for supplement 7 to the 03 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 29,
  8. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/19 as amended by GRSP-78-23-Rev.1 (as reproduced in annex XV), with a proposal for supplement 2 to the 05 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 94
  9. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/20 as amended by GRSP-78-40, as amended (as reproduced in annex XVI), with a proposal for supplement 2 to the 06 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 95
  10. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/33 as amended by GRSP-78-35-Rev.1 as amended (as reproduced in annex V), with a proposal for supplement 1 to the 05 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 100,
  11. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/36 as amended by GRSP-78-29 (as reproduced in annex XVII), with a proposal for supplement 4 to the 04 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 127
  12. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/22 as amended by GRSP-78-39-Rev.1 as amended (as reproduced in annex VII), with a proposal for supplement 4 to the 02 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 134
  13. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/34 as amended by GRSP-78-43 (as reproduced in annex XVIII), with a proposal for supplement 4 to the 02 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 135
  14. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/23 as amended by GRSP-78-24-Rev.1 (as reproduced in annex XIX), with a proposal for supplement 1 to the 04 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 137
  15. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/24 as amended by GRSP-78-27 (as reproduced in annex XX), with a proposal for supplement 2 to the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 145
  16. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/35 as amended by GRSP-78-28-Rev.1 (as reproduced in annex XXI), with a proposal for supplement 1 to the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 153
  17. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/25 as amended by GRSP-78-41 (as reproduced in annex XXII), with a proposal for supplement 2 to the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 173, and
  18. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSP/2025/26 as amended by GRSP-78-49 (as reproduced in annex XXIII), with a proposal for supplement 1 to the 01 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 174,
and requested the secretariat to submit them to the June 2026 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1.

GRSP | Session 79 | 1-5 Jun

4. The expert from Germany presented a status report on the activities of the Task Force on Emergency Door Opening (TF-EDO) (informal document GRSP-79-31), which had met twice since the last session of GRSP.

5. Given the need to amend two UN Global Technical Regulations (GTR), TF-EDO was planning to request AC.3 for authorization to amend UN GTRs and to request WP.29 and AC.3 to be upgraded from a Task Force (TF) to an Informal Working Group (IWG). The group had already presented these plans to WP.29 and AC.3 at their March sessions, where several delegates expressed support for the work of the task force, agreed on its importance and urgency and looked forward to receiving the formal request in the next session of WP.29. The expert from Germany also presented informal document GRSP-79-18 with draft terms of reference for the proposed IWG. Some delegations not currently involved in the work of the task force indicated their desire to join the work. Given the goal of amending several UN GTRs and in order to ensure that all relevant parties would be involved, the expert from Germany proposed to postpone the submission of the formal request to AC.3 to the November session. GRSP endorsed the creation of an IWG on EDO (IWG-EDO), pending the finalization of the terms of reference and the approval by WP.29 and AC.3. GRSP also endorsed the submission to the November 2026 session of AC.3 of a request for authorisation to amend UN GTRs Nos. 1 and 14 by one or more contracting parties to the 1998 Agreement.

6. The expert from Germany also presented draft amendments to UN Regulations Nos. 11 (informal document GRSP-79-19) and 21 (informal document GRSP-79-20) and several experts provided feedback.

12. Informal document GRSP-79-19 was discussed under agenda item 2. See paragraphs 4-6 for a summary of the discussions.