Working Party on General Safety
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7-11 Apr 2025  · Geneva
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GRSG/108 General Safety: Report of the 129th (April 2025) session
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2. (a) UN Regulation No. 107 (M2 and M3 Vehicles)

3. GRSG noted a proposal of amendments (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/9) introduced by the expert from Germany, on behalf of the Task Force (TF) on Accessibility (UN Regulation No. 107). As announced at the previous session of GRSG (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/107 paragraph 3) he explained that TF had finalized the proposal aimed at modifying the requirements of UN Regulation No. 107 to improve accessibility of vehicles of categories M2 and M3, class I. GRSG adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/9, as amended by annex II to the report and requested the secretariat to submit the proposal as the draft 11 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 107 for consideration and vote at the November 2025 sessions of WP.29 and Administrative Committee of the 1958 Agreement (AC.1).

4. The expert from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/4 that clarifies the obligations of the manufacturer in relation to the provision of information on the location and safe use of emergency exits and fire extinguishers. The expert from OICA, introduced GRSG-129-32 amending ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/4, providing means to transmit information on the location and safe use of emergency exits and fire extinguishers for passengers in the vehicle. The expert from France proposed to liaise with the expert from United Kingdom to further develop the proposal. GRSG agreed to resume consideration on this subject at its October 2025 session, based on a revised proposal.

5. The expert from Germany introduced GRSG-129-19 on behalf of the Chair of the IWG on Safer Transport of Children in Buses and Coaches (STCBC). He informed GRSG about the progress in IWG Phase 2, Child Restraint Systems in combination with 2-point belts in buses and coaches. GRSG, agreed to resume discussion on this subject on the basis of an IWG proposal.