Updated draft version of the amended 1958 Agreement pursuant to the establishment of an International Whole Vehicle Type Approval system.

Comments on the consolidated draft proposal for revision of the 1958 Agreement pursuant to the development of the IWVTA system.

Comments concerning certain revisions and editorial changes to the 1958 Agreement proposed by Japan.

Comments on the consolidated draft proposal for revision of the 1958 Agreement pursuant to the development of the IWVTA system.

Presentation from the WP.29 secretariat.

Australian proposal to allow for a “not to apply at this time” notification rather than the current term expressing “disagreement”. Australia notes that a Contracting Party can perfectly agree with a regulation, but be unable to implement it until a date later than the UN date of “entry into force”.

Japan comments on the proposal for a procedure by which a new technology could be exempted from certain requirements of a UN Regulation with which it is incompatible.

Japan comments on the proposal for a procedure by which a new technology could be exempted from certain requirements of a UN Regulation with which it is incompatible.

OICA presentation of views on the proposed amendments to the convention government UN Regulations and mutual recognition of type approvals.

The proposed introduction of an international whole vehicle type approval system has raised a number of technical questions regarding the scope and obligations inscribed within the 1958 Agreement. UN Office of Legal Affairs counsel was requested to provide answers these questions.