Templates for documents to be submitted to the Working Parties (GRs) and to the World Forum WP.29

Review of Global NCAP activities and priorities.

Guidance for the chairs and/or secretaries of the WP.29 informal working groups on how to use the UN World Forum website to upload documents of their groups.

Report (“CARS 21 High Level Group on the Competitiveness and Sustainable Growth of the Automotive Industry in the European Union”) referenced during the EU presentation on the CARS 21 program, provided by GAR for your convenience.

List of subjects under consideration by the World Forum and each of the six subsidiary working parties.

GTB perspectives on ways to simplify and streamline the complex body of lighting regulations in response to EU concerns expressed at the 156th WP.29 session.

GTB perspectives on the GRE proposal for Supplement 1 to the 05 series of amendments to Regulation No. 48.

Proposal to develop amendments to UN GTR No. 12 on motorcycle controls, tell-tales and indicators in order to make editorial changes and introduce a gear shift pattern that had been discussed but had been overlooked in the introduction of GTR 12.

The APEC Automotive Dialogue is a forum to map-out strategies for increasing the integration and development of the automotive sector within the Asia/Pacific region. This presentation was delivered by the WP.29 chairman at the 16th Automotive Dialogue meeting of 28-29 May 2012 in Kazan, Russia.

Agenda for the first working session (second meeting following the organizational session) of the informal group formed to exchange information on enforcement and compliance issues.

Proposed guidelines for the scope, objectives, and procedures of the informal group established to develop a global technical regulation on electric vehicle safety.

Status report on the effort to introduce the FlexPLI lower legform impactor test tool into the global technical regulation on pedestrian safety.

Progress report from the group working to establish an International Whole Vehicle Type Approval system.

Presentation on the significance of WP.29 within the EU’s Competitive Automotive Regulatory System for the 21st Century program and strategic vision for 2020.

Presentation on changes to the WP.29 website to permit informal group leaders to upload documents directly onto the site.

Report on the first session of the informal working group established to develop a global technical regulation for electric vehicle safety.

WP.29 secretariat summary of the status of the various GTR and activities towards their development and the development of new GTR.

List of the chairpersons of the WP.29 working parties and expert groups working on regulatory initiatives.

Update from India on the status of work with the United States on the preliminary report on aspects of environmentally friendly vehicles, such as automotive technologies, alternate fuels, electric, hybrid, fuel cell, solar, and air vehicles, aerodynamics, consumer labeling, tires, etc.

Form for noting the results of voting on the amendment to the GTR on door locks.

Calendar, pending confirmation, of the World Forum and of its six Working Parties for 2013.

Times and places for meetings of the DETA informal working group, EU Member States coordinating session, tyre industry, and informal working group on a GTR for tyres.

UK and USA proposal for a new WP.29 document that would maintain specifications for test tools and devices used in UN Regulations and GTR. The resolution would permit a streamlining of references to test devices prescribed in the regulations.

WP.29 agreed to extend the scope of UN Rule Nos. 1 and 2 to cover light vehicles to render the Agreement more useful for emerging economies and for those countries not having a periodical technical inspection (PTI) system. CITA proposes an ‘upgrade’ based on corresponding EU directives.

Document prepared by the secretariat to provide participants with a template for the preparation of official documents for the sessions of the WP.29 working parties. It also contains a model for the proposal of a new UN Regulation or a consolidated text of an existing one.

Side-by-side comparison of the provisions of the EU directive on vehicle roadworthiness inspections and those of UN Rule No. 2 under the 1997 Agreement on periodical technical inspections.

The Secretariat has noted an error to be corrected in footnote 1 of the scope of Revision 3 of Regulation No. 98 vis-à-vis the French version of the text.

Updated text pursuant to the 16 March 2012 meeting of the informal working group on Intelligent Transport Systems.

OICA proposal to transpose EU Directive 2005/64/EC on the type-approval of motor vehicles with regard to their reusability, recyclability and recoverability and its amendment, Commission Directive 2009/1/EC, into international legislation.

Proposal for establishing two informal working groups addressing the safety and environmental requirements for electric vehicles to enhance regulatory cooperation including developing global technical regulations in the framework of the 1998 Agreement.

Text adopted by the Working Party on Brakes and Running Gear (GRRF) at its seventy-second session inserting a reference to Regulation No. 54 into Regulation No. 64 and adapting the speed limit of type 4 spare units.

Text adopted by the Working Party on Brakes and Running Gear (GRRF) at its seventy-second session identifying tyres for use in specialized applications in the field (e.g. cyclic field operations and cyclic harvesting operations).

Text adopted by the Working Party on Brakes and Running Gear (GRRF) at its seventy-second session to align the French text with the English and Russian versions of the regulation.

Formal text adopted by the Working Party on Passive Safety (GRSP) at its fiftieth session proposing a new UN Regulation on Child Restraint Systems.

Proposal adopted and submitted by the Working Party on Brakes and Running Gear (GRRF) at its seventy-second session in order to add specific performance requirements for C2 snow Tyres.

Proposal adopted by the Working Party on Brakes and Running Gear (GRRF) at its seventy-second session recommending changes in the definition of the measuring rim for C1, C2 and C3 tyres.

Text adopted by the Working Party on Pollution and Energy (GRPE) at its sixty-third session to introduce amendments to Annex 9 of Regulation No. 101 regarding the procedure for determination of the electric range of hybrid electric vehicles taking into account the use of the fuel consuming engine.

Text adopted by the Working Party on Passive Safety (GRSP) at its fiftieth session to align UN Regulation No. 14 with the provisions of draft Regulation on Child Restraint Systems (CRS).

Text adopted by the Working Party on Passive Safety (GRSP) at its fiftieth session to cover the risk of ejection of vehicle occupants in the scope of the UN Regulation and to correct the transitional provisions.

Text adopted by the Working Party on Passive Safety (GRSP) at its fiftieth session to align the provisions of UN Regulation No. 16 with those of the new draft UN Regulation on Child Restraint Systems (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2012/53).

Text adopted by the Working Party on Passive Safety (GRSP) at its fiftieth session to update provisions of UN Regulation No. 44.

The text reproduced below was adopted by the Working Party on Pollution and Energy (GRPE) at its sixty-third session to align UN Regulation No. 49 with Euro VI emissions standards.

Report on the development of Amendment 1 to UN GTR No. 1 prepared to incorporate changes developed during the rulemaking process of the United States of America, in the transposition to UN Regulation No. 11, and then further agreed by Working Party on Passive Safety (GRSP) delegates.

Text adopted by the Working Party on Passive Safety (GRSP) at its fiftieth session to align the text of the global technical regulation No. 1 with the latest changes introduced during the rule making procedure which transposed the GTR No. 1 into the final rule of the United Stated of America.

Text prepared by the United States of America requesting the development of a new GTR on quiet road transport vehicles.

First progress report of the informal group developing the Flex-PLI legform impactor test tool for use in the GTR on pedestrian safety.

Proposal adopted by the Working Party on Brakes and Running Gear (GRRF) clarifying the levels of braking performance that are reasonable in the different positions of the ignition key, especially when the engine is off.

Proposal adopted by the GRRF to harmonize definitions and marking requirements of UN R30 with the new 02 series of amendments to Regulation No. 117 and clarifying the requirements for the load/speed performance test and to cover regulatory regulatory markings for “temporary uses spare tyres”.

Proposal adopted by the GRRF to harmonize the definitions used in UN R54 with the amendments (ECE/TRANS/WP29/2010/63) to UN R117 approved by the World Forum at its June 2010 session.

Draft agenda for the June 2012 session of the World Forum.