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GRSG/108 General Safety: Report of the 129th (April 2025) session
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15. Special Resolution No. 1 concerning the Common Definitions of Vehicle Categories, Masses and Dimensions

30. The expert from Germany introduced, on behalf of the Task Force on Automated Vehicle Categorisation (TF-AVC), ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/6 amending Special Resolution No.1 (S.R.1) to accommodate additional definitions for Automated Driving System (ADS) and Dynamic Driving Task (DDT). GRSG also noted a clarification document (GRSG-129-29-Rev.1) on the proposed amendment, also from TF-AVC. GRSG, recommended ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/6, as amended below, to the Executive Committee of the 1998 Agreement for consideration and vote at its November 2025 session as Amendment 3 to S.R.1.

Paragraph 1.3.1., amend to read:

“1.3.1.If a vehicle meets all of the following conditions:
For vehicles other than category X:
P – (M + N x 68) > N x 68,
N ≤ 6 and
Pay mass as defined in paragraph 7. of Annex 3 exceeds 150 kg for the vehicle, as configured with the maximum mass of factory fitted optional equipment, the vehicle shall be deemed to be a category 2 vehicle.
For category X vehicles:
P – (M + N x 68) > N x 68, N ≤ 7 and
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