UNECE “Background note” compiling information from its Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution working groups, Inland Transport Committee (especially WP.29), and the European Environment Agency (EEA).

On the first of August 2012, an amendment to Sweden’s national type-approval legislation introducing the possibility for approval of retrofit emission control systems entered into force in Sweden.

Working draft for a series of amendments that would align UN R83 with the Euro 6 approval requirements based on the amending Regulation (EC) No 459/2012 and Regulation (EC) No 630/2012. Proposal to be revised and transformed into a formal submission for the June 2013 GRPE session.

Modifications to UN Regulation No. 101 resulting from the transposition of the Euro 6 legislation into UN Regulation No. 83. Proposal to be revised and transformed into a formal submission for the June 2013 GRPE session.

Modifications to UN Regulation No. 103 resulting from the transposition of the Euro 6 legislation into UN Regulation No. 83. Proposal to be revised and transformed into a formal submission for the June 2013 GRPE session.

Proposal to amend the current draft of the proposed regulation on the recyclability of motor vehicles.

Proposal for a new Regulation on recyclability of motor vehicles based upon the original submission from OICA plus amendments proposed by the European Commission.

Suggested changes to the proposal to amend Annex 4 (market fuel quality) of the Consolidated Resolution RE3

Schedule of informal group side sessions during the GRPE 65th session.

Proposal by the European Commission to align the provisions of UN Regulation No. 96 with the 8-mode cycle of European Directive 2010/26/EU and the 2012 amendment of European Directive 97/68/EC.

Corrections to align the unit of each factor in the equations 8-2, 8-4, 8-6, and 8-10 in paragraph 8 and to Annex 13, paragraph 1, Figure A13-1 where, in the upper figure for “gear use during acceleration phases”, the acceleration gear 1 incorrectly starts from zero.