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GRVA/22 Automated/Connected Vehicles: Report of the 22nd (June 2025) session

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4. (e) Coordination of work on automation between working parties

24. During the consultations, the experts from China and France, Co-Chairs of the Task Force on the Fitness of UN Regulations and UN Global Technical Regulations for ADS (TF on FADS), presented the status report of the task force (GRVA-22-31). The experts discussed the meaning of the term “mock approvals” in this context and clarified it as “validation activities” as reflected in informal document GRVA-22-31/Rev.1. The experts also called for sponsors to check the fitness of UN Global Technical Regulations Nos. 3 and 8 and propose amendments, if needed. China offered to consider it and report back in September 2025.

25. GRVA endorsed informal document GRVA-22-31/Rev.1.

26. GRVA agreed to keep documents ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/23 (as amended by GRVA-22-32), ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/24 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/25 on its agenda for the September 2025 session.

27. During the consultations, the experts received a status report (GRVA-22-19) on the activities of the joint task force of GRVA and the Working Party on General Safety provisions (GRSG) working on Automated Vehicle Categorization. The expert from France supported the documents prepared by the task force and explained that they were also supported by the group screening the WP.29 regulations with regard to their fitness for ADS. The expert from Italy proposed to review the proposed paragraph 2.11., which allows the combination of some vehicles categories (e.g. the Category T is not aimed to be combined with the Category G) and did not support that the Categories S, R and T can be combined with the proposed Categories X and Y and the ADS provisions prepared only apply to performing the DDT on public roads, and not fields.

28. GRVA endorsed the status report (GRVA-22-19) of the task force on AVC.

29. GRVA reviewed the documents prepared by the Task Force: ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/26 (amended by GRVA-22-21), ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2025/27 (amended by GRVA-22-20).

30. GRVA noted the submission of these documents by GRSG to WP.29 for the November 2025 session. GRVA agreed to monitor the compatibility of updates to vehicle categories with the ADS regulations currently under development.

31. During the consultations, the expert from France reported on the outcome of a consolidation meeting in preparation of a workshop to be held after July 2025, organized as agreed during the twenty-first session of GRVA. GRVA noted that there was no full consensus on the need for a scenario database to be supported by GRVA.

32. GRVA endorsed the summary of the GRVA administrative consolidation meeting on scenarios, held on 22 May 2025 in France (GRVA-22-38/Rev.1) and looked forward to receiving a status report on the outcome of the next workshop.