Progress Towards an International Whole Vehicle Type Approval Scheme and Revision 3 of the 1958 Agreement
Document WP.29-163-19
23 June 2014

Set of explanations and requests for WP.29 approval of a questionnaire to solicit contracting party input on regulations to include in the whole vehicle type approval and handling of replacement parts under certain conditions, amendment of the 1958 Agreement status report to communicate whether contracting parties accept only ‘universal’ or accept ‘limited’ whole vehicle type approvals, to set English as the documentation language, and for comments on the proposed Revision 3 to the 1958 Agreement.

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Previous Documents, Discussions, and Outcomes
4.1. | Status of the 1958 Agreement and of the annexed UN Regulations
4.2.2. | Guidance regarding the application of Supplements to several series of amendments running in parallel.
4.3. | Development of the International Whole Vehicle Type Approval (IWVTA) system

45. The representative of Japan, Vice-Chair of the IWG on IWVTA, reported on the work progress made during the meetings held in Moscow prior to the WP.29 session (WP.29-163-19). He underlined the need to distribute a questionnaire to be sent to all countries/REIO (regional economic integrated organizations) participating in WP.29 on the difficulty with the proposed UN Regulations included in UN R0 and on the procedure for spare parts (WP.29-163-20 and WP.29-163-21). He proposed the insertion of a new column in the status document of the Agreement to list minimum acceptable versions of UN Regulations by Contracting Parties which accept the IWVTA of limited recognition. He sought the consent of WP.29 to use English as the only language for the application of type approvals and the accompanying documentation.

46. The World Forum welcomed the work done by IWVTA and endorsed the proposed procedures above.

4.4. | Consideration of draft Revision 3 to the 1958 Agreement
Related and Previous Documents
SGR0-11-12/Rev.3
Relates to 1958 Agreement | UN R0 |