Working Party on General Safety
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6-9 Oct 2025  · Geneva
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GRSG/109 General Safety: Report of the 130th (October 2025) session
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14. (b) Categorization of automated vehicles and autonomous vehicle regulation screening

34. The expert from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, on behalf of the Task Force on Automated Vehicles Regulatory Screening (TF-AVRS) introduced proposals of amendments updating the regulations (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/14 to 46) according to the common recommendations of the coordinated task force activities with the subsidiary bodies of WP.29. He withdrew ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/33 and introduced the status report of the TF-AVRS. Then GRSG adopted the following documents he introduced and requested the secretariat to submitted them for consideration and vote at the June 2026 session of WP.29 and AC.1:

  1. GRSG-130-46-Rev.1, replacing ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/14, as proposal of Supplement 5 to the 03 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 18 (Protection Against Unauthorized Use);
  2. GRSG-130-43-Rev.1, replacing ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/15, as Proposal for supplement 1 to the 04 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 26 (External Projections of Passenger Cars)
  3. GRSG-130-44-Rev.1, replacing ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/16, as Proposal for supplement 1 to the 04 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 34 (Prevention of Fire Risks);
  4. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/17, as amended here below, as proposal for supplement 2 to the 01 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 35 (Foot Controls) ; Paragraph 01.1.1., amend to read: “0.1.1. The Regulation was originally drafted for vehicles with driver and manual driving controls. It is the intention of this amendment to keep the spirit of the Regulation and to exclude vehicles without manual driving controls in the vehicle there is no need to apply for approval according to UN Regulation No. 35.”
  5. GRSG-130-66-Rev.2, replacing ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/18, as Proposal for supplement 1 to the 02 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 39 (Speedometer and Odometer);
  6. GRSG-130-65, replacing ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/20, as Proposal for Supplement 1 to the 07 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 46 (Indirect Vision);
  7. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/21, not amended, Proposal for Supplement 1 to the 03 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 55 (Mechanical Couplings);
  8. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/22, as amended below, Proposal for supplement 4 to the 03 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 58 (Rear Underrun Protection Devices) Paragraph 0.1.1., amend to read “0.1.1. The Regulation …of this amendment to keep … already covered by this amendment.”
  9. GRSG-130-64, replacing ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/23, Proposal for Supplement 4 to the Original version of UN Regulation No. 61 (External Projections of Commercial Vehicles);
  10. GRSG-130-63, replacing ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/24, Proposal for supplement 1 to the 02 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 66 (Strength of the Superstructure);
  11. GRS2G-130-62, replacing ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/25, Proposal for Supplement 3 to the 04 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 67 (Liquid Petroleum Gas Vehicles);
  12. ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/26, Proposal for Supplement 1 to the 02 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 73 (Lateral Protection Devices);
  13. GRSG-130-61, replacing ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/28, Proposal for supplement 10 to the 01 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 97 ((Vehicle) Alarm Systems) ;
  14. GRSG-130-60, replacing ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/30, Proposal for supplement 1 to the 10 Series of Amendments to UN Regulation No. 107 (General Construction of Buses)

35. GRSG agreed to resume discussion on remaining documents (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/19, ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/27, ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/29 to ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/46 and GRSG-130-45 at its April 2026 session.

36. The expert from OICA withdrew GRSG-130-19 and introduced GRSG-130-68 which also deletes the reference to UI from UN Regulation No. 167 (Vulnerable Road Users Direct Vision). GRSG requested the secretariat to distribute it with an official symbol at its April 2026 session.