Working draft proposal to establish an informal working group to prepare the materials necessary for the management of the international whole vehicle type approval (IWVTA) process and for the exchange of type approval data (DETA). In particular, this group would include the type approval authorities in order to ensure coverage of all the remaining administrative and technical issues related to the IWVTA process.

Updated information on the status of Annex IV (list of UN Regulations incorporated into the IWVTA) given work to amend certain regulations (e.g. extraction of ISOFIX anchorages from UN R14, simplification of lighting regulations).

OICA proposal to amend Document WP.29/2017/67, Annex 1, paragraph V.5 concerning the application of a UN Regulation by individual Contracting Parties after the first date of entry into force of the Regulation.

Status of deliberations from the UNECE Secretariat. Article 15.3 stipulates that all UN Regulations established under Revision 2 of the 1958 Agreement shall be treated by Contracting Parties as if they had been adopted under the new Revision 3 of the Agreement: “Art.15.3. If all Contracting Parties to the Agreement agree, any UN Regulation adopted under the terms of the previous version of the Agreement may be treated as though it were a UN Regulation adopted under the terms of the above provisions.”

Proposal of amendments from the UNECE Secretariat.

Proposal to add a new question, “How to apply a UN type approval number as from the entry into force of Revision 3 of the 1958 Agreement?”, to the question and answer document on the international whole vehicle type approval system.

The mandate of IWVTA Informal Group will terminate by the end of the year 2017. This document is the first tentative draft proposal of “Rules of Procedure and Terms of Reference for IWVTA Phase 2 Informal Group” to be further scrutinized and refined by IWVTA Informal Group, taking into account views expressed in the June session of WP. 29. IWVTA Informal Group plans to submit final proposal to WP.29 for consideration at its November session.

OICA proposal to clarify that the numbering of type approvals for “conventional” UN Regulations does not apply to the proposed UN Regulation No. 0 on international whole vehicle type approval. A separate paragraph would deal with the interpolation of IWVTA approval codes into type approval codes.

OICA perspectives for addressing cases of technologies voluntarily installed on vehicles by manufacturers that subsequently become subject to mandatory installation. In particular, the presentation addresses cases where a UN Regulation addresses technologies that are optional in some markets, but mandatory in others. For example, UN R116 includes both vehicle alarms and vehicle immobilizers. Alarms are presently optional across parties to the 1958 Agreement, but some parties require immobilizers. This divergence creates confusion over the validity of UN R116 approvals across all parties to the Agreement.

Proposal to address Supplements to UN Regulations that were recently adopted under Revision 2 to the 1958 Agreement, but that will enter into force under Revision 3 to the Agreement. At issue is a difference between the two Revisions with regard to extensions of type approvals. Under Revision 2, Supplements adopted after the date of a first type approval do not apply to extensions of the approval unless specifically required by the Supplement. Under Revision 3, all Supplements apply to extensions of approvals unless the Supplement specifically exempts such extensions from its requirements. Now that Revision 3 has entered into force, OICA seeks to clarify that recent Supplements adopted under Revision 2 will be subject to Revision 2 even though they will enter into force in the coming months.

The light vehicle emissions GTR (WLTP) is being transposed into a UN Regulation. Given its complexity, the preferred approach is to draft a UN Regulation that would allow national/regional application with different stringency levels. The task force preparing the UN Regulation version of the GTR seeks IWVTA informal group input to understand issues that may impact the application of the light vehicle emissions regulation to whole vehicle type approvals.

Proposal to address type-approval numbering issues specific to tyres under the new version of the 1958 Agreement.