1. The Chairman, Mr Rovers welcomed the participants and thanked Mr Kellermann and BMVBS for the invitation and the hosting of the meeting. He opened the meeting at 13:00 hrs on 2 December 2013.

2. The participants introduced themselves.

3. The agenda was unanimously adopted.

4. The comments received on AVLI-01-03/Rev.1 (AVLI-02-03/Rev.1) were discussed.

5. Detailed information on the decisions taken can be found in document AVLI-02-03/Rev.2. In the meeting all comments received on the proposal have been discussed finally. For nearly all comments, there could be found a consensus in the AVLI group.

6. However, there are three items where the final decision will be taken by GRE during its 71th session on 31 March to 4 April 2014. It concerns:
- reversing lamp
- rear fog lamp
- daytime running lamp.

There was no consensus whether the installation of these lamps should be optional or mandatory. Therefore the term “optional” was put in square brackets indicating that a GRE decision/discussion is needed.

7. At the beginning of the meeting, CEMA and CLEPA experts asked to come back to Chapter 6.2 with regard to the installation height of additional dipped beam headlamps. It was proposed to increase the height to more than 3 m. The conclusion was to keep the decision taken during the 2nd session. CEMA and CLEPA were invited to prepare, if need be, an informal document with a proposal and a justification for discussion within GRE.

8. As agreed in the 2nd session, DE made a proposal to improve the wording concerning the installation height of 4 m to avoid that the maximum height of the vehicle exceeds 4 m due to the frame of the lamps as follows:

“Lamps shall be installed in such a way that the vehicle complies with applicable (national of regional) legislation concerning its maximum height.”

This proposal was accepted and was included in Chapter 5.8 of AVLI-01-03/Rev2b.

9. As also agreed in the 2nd session, Dr. Karl Manz made a proposal concerning the installation of the reversing lamp(s) and minimum requirements to avoid glaring. The proposal was discussed and slightly amended to read (See also AVLI-03-05):

“However, if the shape, structure, design or operational conditions of the vehicle makes it impossible to keep the lamp within 1,200 mm it is allowed to increase the height up to 4,000 mm.

In the latter case the lamp shall be installed with an downwards inclination of at least 3° for a mounting height larger than 2,000 mm and not more than 3,000 mm and at least 6° for a mounting height larger than 3,000 mm and not more than 4,000 mm.

No inclination is needed for mounting height up to 2,000 mm."

This proposal was accepted and was included in Chapter 6.4.4.2 of AVLI-01-03/Rev.2b.

10. Furthermore it was agreed to delete the Chapter 6.22 (Emergency Stop Signal) as this signal makes only sense at high speeds above at least 50 km/h in conjunction with strong dynamic behaviour at very high deceleration values (e. g. > 4,5 m/s2 for N2, N3 and > 6 m/s2 for M1). It could therefore only be acceptable under the same conditions as for N2, N3. In addition, there is a formal problem that R 13 resp. R 13 H which provide the necessary control signal are not applicable to tractors.

11. Also deleted was Chapter 6.23 (Signalling Panel) in the first step as signalling panels are mainly important for trailers and towed machines. Panels (Component) will be covered by R 70, the material used for the panels in R 104 (see also documents ECE-TRANS-WP29-GRE-2013-64e and ECE-TRANS-WP29-GRE-2013-65e). As a consequence, Annexes 6 and 7 have been deleted as well.

AVLI-01-03/Rev.1 | Proposal for Supplement 6 to the 00 series of amendments to Regulation No. 86 Revised version of the CEMA proposal to update the regulation on agricultural vehicle lighting pursuant to the first AVLI informal group session.

AVLI-01-03/Rev.2 | Working draft proposal for Supplement 6 to the 00 series of amendments to Regulation No. 86: Revision 2a Proposal to update the agricultural vehicle lighting regulation pursuant to the 5 November 2013 informal group session (AVLI-2).

AVLI-01-03/Rev.2b | Working draft "2b" of the amendment to update UN Regulation No. 86 Resulting from the decisions taken during the second session of AVLI Bonn, 2/3 December 2013.

AVLI-02-03/Rev.1 | Comments and observations matrix for the draft text on agricultural vehicle lighting: Revised Comments on the working draft proposal for Supplement 6 to the 00 series of amendments to Regulation No. 86 (proposal to update the regulation on agricultural vehicle lighting: document AVLI-01-03/Rev.1) updated to 5 November 2013.

AVLI-02-03/Rev.2 | Comments and observations matrix for the draft text on agricultural vehicle lighting: Revision 2 Further refined comments on the working draft proposal for Supplement 6 to the 00 series of amendments to Regulation No. 86 (proposal to update the regulation on agricultural vehicle lighting: document AVLI-01-03/Rev.2) updated to 3 December 2013.

AVLI-03-05 | Reversing lamps: Mounting positions above 1.2 m

GRE/2013/64 | Proposal for draft amendments to Regulation No. 70 Proposal to introduce new Class 5 devices made solely of retro-reflective plates with chevron type pattern to be applied to special utility vehicles or trailers not regularly covered by standard rear marking plates in order to harmonize existing national requirements.

GRE/2013/65 | Proposal for draft amendments to Regulation No. 104 Proposal to introduce a new Class F marking designed with chevron-type pattern to be applied to special utility vehicles or trailers not normally covered by standard contour marking materials in order to harmonize national requirements making use of such markings.

12. The secretary will revise AVLI-01-03/Rev.2a according to the decisions taken by 2013-12-06. This document will be distributed as AVLI-01-03/Rev.2b as an informal document.

13. As the Commission intends to include the results of AVLI into Annex XII of RVFSR, AVLI will recommend to the Commission to keep the lamps mentioned under 4. above optional. The main reason for this is that the introduction of the installation of previously optional lamps as a mandatory requirement needs appropriate lead time. If GRE takes this decision, they will consider this appropriately and in that case the risk occurs that EU and UN could have different introduction dates which should be absolutely avoided. AVLI will also recommend that the Commission keeps the installation requirements for R and S vehicles as they stand in Annex XII as AVLI is presently not able to introduce towed vehicles into UN R86. The reason is that R.E.3 presently has no definition of agricultural trailers® or towed interchangeable equipment (S). To include these vehicles into R86 an appropriate amendment of R.E. 3 is necessary.

14. As agreed during the 2nd session, Italy will check the whole document with the objective to align the wording with R48 wherever suitable and will make appropriate proposals. These proposals will be considered in a small taskforce, comprising of the expert from Italy, the Secretary and the Chairmen in Brussels on 18 December 2013. The result of this editorial work will be included in a further revision, which will become AVLI-01-03/Rev.3. This document will be sent to the GRE secretary as a formal document for the 71st session for adoption by GRE.

15. In a round table enquiry amongst the participants of the 3rd AVLI meeting no items are raised.

16. This item was withdrawn as a next meeting is not yet necessary.

17. At the end of the meeting, the Chairman, Mr. Rovers, thanked Mr. Kellermann again for kindly hosting this 3rd session of ‘AVLI’. He also thanked the secretary for all his good work in preparation and execution of the meeting. Finally, he thanked all the participants for their good cooperation and the fruitful discussions.

18. He closed the meeting at approx. 15:00 hrs on 3 December 2013.