Report of the Working Party on Pollution and Energy on its June 2014 session.

Adopted amendments to UN R49.

Adopted technical report on the development of the draft Amendment 3 to Global Technical Regulation (GTR) No. 4.

GRPE session agenda updated to include the latest document submissions.

Recently EU-Directive 2013/60 has been introduced in which chapter 5 of EU Directive 97/24 is amended. One of the amendments concerns the introduction of reference fuels E5 (petrol) and B5 (diesel fuel). When stage C in 97/24-5 is being applied for, reference is made to GTR No. 2. In GTR No. 2, however, these reference fuels have not yet been incorporated. This proposal aims to correct this omission by amending the reference fuel specification for alternative C in table 6-1.

During motor transport operation, elevated concentrations of solid particles are formed in the air over the roadway as a result of particulate matter emissions from vehicle exhaust gases, tire and road surface wear particles, background air pollution and other processes. The content of tire and road surface wear particulates in the air over the roadway, as it has been specified in the previously submitted materials of the Russian delegation, amounts up to 60% from the total percentage of solid particles (WP-29-160-39). This paper presents further research into this subject.

Meetings of the Electric Vehicles and the Environment (EVE), Heavy Duty Hybrids (HDH), Gaseous Fuelled Vehicles (GFV), Particle Measurement Programme (PMP), Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), and Environmental and Propulsion Performance Requirements of L-category vehicles (EPPR) informal working groups during the 69th GRPE session.

The GRPE session will be held in the World Trade Organization (WTO) building while the informal group sessions have been moved to new rooms in the Palais des Nations.

Proposal to add text omitted during the preparation of working document GRPE/2014/12 (proposal to update requirements in line with the current state of technology and to transpose the latest decisions of the EU regarding OBD threshold limits).

Proposed amendments to the OICA text proposed in order to adapt certain requirements to the current state of technology and to transpose the latest decisions of the EU regarding OBD threshold limits.

Explanation and rationale for the proposal to update OBD threshold limits and align UN R49 with the latest EU OBD requirements.

List of terms used across regulations under the purview of the Working Party on Pollution and Energy where the definitions provided in the regulations differ. The intention is to aid discussions on whether the establishment of common definitions is warranted.

Document GRPE/2014/11 was prepared by the GRPE informal working group on heavy duty hybrids (HDH) to add the test procedure on heavy-duty hybrids to GTR No. 4.

This informal document revises and supplements GRPE/2014/11 in order to align GTR No. 4 and GTR No. 11 (NRMM) in accordance with the latest work of the HDH group. The renumbering of equations, tables and figures, the corresponding references, and the symbols list in paragraph 3.2 has not been completed in this document. This will be done during the final editing of GRPE/2014/11.

Draft report on the development of the amendment to introduce provisions for heavy-duty hybrid powertrains and vehicles into GTR No. 4 on heavy-duty vehicle emissions and fuel consumption.

Revisions to the proposal from OICA to update the on-board diagnostics (OBD) requirements in line with technological progress. This document includes amendments to the 06 and 07 series of amendments, (superseding documents GRPE/2014/8 and GRPE/2014/9 from the January 2014 GRPE session).

Proposal to delete the definition of “vehicles designed to fulfil specific social needs” because these vehicles no longer exist under the 07 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 83. This proposal is in line with the Euro 6 stages of European Union Regulation (EC) No. 715/2007 and implementation Regulation (EC) No. 692/2008.

Report and draft text for the implementation of GTR No. 15 (WLTP) in EU law (via EU Regulation No 692/2008).

Explanatory presentation on EU plans for the integration of the new light vehicle emissions global technical regulation into EU law.

Proposal to add classifications covering agricultural trailers and towed agricultural machinery in the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3), originally raised by GRSG. This version includes comments from its review by GRSP.

Presentation on the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), a government-sponsored global effort to reduce short-lived “climate pollutants” (initially focused on methane, black carbon, and hydrofluorocarbons).

Status report to the Working Party on Pollution and Energy (GRPE).

Report on the deliberations of the Particle Measurement Programme informal group, including proposal for the PMP group to undertake the development of a set of recommended measurement techniques and sampling procedures, investigation of typical driving patterns, compilation and monitoring of on-going research projects, as well as networking and exchange of information with experts in the field of non-exhaust traffic related particle emissions.

Summary of discussions with a proposal for a work programme with the objective, among others, of developing a set of recommended sampling/measurement methodologies to address the problem of road, tire, and other non-exhaust airborne particles along roadways.

PMP work program including on exhaust emissions and non-exhaust (tire, brake) vehicle emissions.

This document is a consolidated text that includes the proposals of the GRPE working document GRPE/2014/12, the proposals of the informal document GRPE-69-07/Rev.1 and the comments to these documents as received from the contracting parties during GRPE 69 session.

Draft agenda, without annotations, for the June 2014 GRPE session.

Annotations to and additional items on the agenda for the June 2014 GRPE session.

Text prepared by the GRPE working group on HDH to add the test procedure on heavy duty hybrids. The text has been prepared as a consolidated version of the GTR.

Text prepared by the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA) in order to adapt some requirements to the current state of technology and to transpose the latest decisions of the EU regarding OBD threshold limits.

Proposed text of the guide to worldwide environmental and related regulations concerning electric vehicles as developed by the informal working group on Electric Vehicles and the Environment.

Text prepared by the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA) in order to update the on-board diagnostics (OBD) requirements in line with technological progress. This document includes amendments to the 06 and 07 series of amendments, superseding documents GRPE/2014/8 and GRPE/2014/9 from the January 2014 GRPE session.

Proposal to enable Contracting Parties to continue to issue type approvals for agricultural tractor and non-road mobile machinery engines according to earlier versions of the Regulation provided such engines are destined for sale in countries that apply the earlier versions. In other words, a manufacturer would be able to obtain approvals in its home country based upon previous sets of requirements that may not be those applied within the home country (but are used in other markets).