OICA gave a presentation explaining their position on various fundamental items to be decided upon. The presentation is availble as doc. TPM-04-03.

Major items of the OICA presentation are:

  – Harmonisation Approach or European Approach
  – New test procedures for warning
  – Test speeds

OICA reported that they could accept the harmonisation approach. That means an ECE-Regulation which is very similar to the US-FMVSS 138. Other members of the group, however, preferred the European approach, because it takes care of safety and environmental aspects (CO2-reduction).

OICA proposed to introduce new test procedures for warning which were developed by ISO. The ISO-procedures would be better reproducible and their results less dependent of the system’s design. Representatives of the tyre industry, however, raised objections against the new test procedures.

It was decided to stop the discussion of the OICA proposals under this point and to raise them again when the relevant item of the draft regulation is discussed.